Australian Adelaide Black granite

TEST

COMPRESSIVE STRENGTH (Mpa)

 

Unaxial unconfined

 

   

Dry

219

   

Wet

192

   

Ratio wet/dry

0.88


YOUNG'S MODULUS OF ELASTICITY (Gpa)

 

Static, mid-third

 

   

Dry

92.6

   

Wet

89.5


PISSON.S RATIO

 

Dynamic

 

   

Dry

0.35

   

Wet

0.33


FLEXURAL STRENGTH (Mpa)

 

Orientation x

 

   

Dry

15.5

   

Wet

18.5

   

Ratio wet/dry

1.19

Orientation y

 

   

Dry

15

   

Wet

17.7

   

Ratio wet/dry

1.18

Ratio top-bottom/east-west, dry

0.96


ULTRASONIC PULSE VELOCITY (m/sec)

 

Cores, normal to dominant plane

 

   

Orientation x

7128

   

Orientation y

6874

Block

 

Normal dominant plane

6700

   

Orientation x

8665

   

Orientation y

6660


BULK DENSITY (kg/m3)

2970


WATER ABSORPTION (%)

 

By volume

 

   

At atmospheric pressure

0.17

   

Under vacuum

0.21

By weight

 

   

At atmospheric pressure

0.06

   

Under vacuum

0.07


SATURATION COEFFICIENT

0.81


RESISTANCE TO SALT CRYSTALLISATION

 

(% weight loss)

0.03


ABRASION RESISTANCE

 

Table index

126


SHORE HARDNESS

 

   

Dry

52

   

Wet

52


DIMENSIONAL STABILITY (% linear change)

 

Normal to dominant plane

-0.002

   

Orientation x

-0.003

   

Orientation y

-0.002


COEFF OF LINEAR THERMAL EXPANSION

 

(mm/mm/C x 10)

 

Normal to dominant plane

5.2

   

Orientation x

4.6

   

Orientation y

5.4


MICROCRACK DENSITY (cracks per 100mm)

4