Beige - Limestone
France
Item Details
Quarry Location:
Suilly-la-Tour, Nièvre Dep. (Pouilly sur Loire)
Water Absorption:
>1 %
Density:
2363 kg/m3
Flexural Strength:
4.7 MPa
Compressive Strength:
70.7 MPa
Recommended Usage:
Building stone,countertops, sinks, monuments, pool coping, sills, ornamental stone, interior, exterr
Finishing Surface:
Honed, Aged, Polished, Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Bushhammered, Tumbled
Additional Names:
Verger Beige Blue, Pierre de Verger,Pierre des Verger,Pierre Verger, Verger Limestone, Pierre dure de Verger,Verger Beige et Bleu
Description:
Identification number:
AFNOR 10-11
Pierre hard limestone
Bulk density:NF EN 1936 -- 2363 kg/m3
porosity: NF EN 1936 -- 12.5%
Compressive strength: NF EN 1926 -- 70.7 MPa
Capillarity coefficient: NF EN 1925 -- C1 = 7, 3-? g.m-2.s
C2 = 6.4 g.m-2.s-?
Absorption coefficient:NF EN 1925 -- C1 = 0.57 g.cm-2.min-1
C2 = 0.49 g.cm-2.min-1
Wear the metal disc:NF EN 1341 -- 21.4 mm
Resistance ties:pr EN 1336
Type I: 1138 N
Type IIa: 1420 N
Type IIb: 1571 N
Frost susceptibility test: pr EN 1237 -- > 240 cycles
Sound propagation speed: NF B 10-505 -- propagation parallel: 5462 m/s
perpend spread. : 5517 m/s
Flexural strength under concentrated load: NF EN 12372 -- 4.7 MPa