About
Item Details
- Material Type:
- Marble
- Origin:
Italy (Dorgali, Orosei, Provincia di Nuoro, Sardegna) - Primary Color(s):
- Beige
- Recommended Usage:
- Wall and floor applications, countertops, mosaic, fountains, pool and wall capping, stairs, window s
- Additional Names:
- Napoleon Perlato Daino, Orosei Perlato, Perlato Daino Limestone, Dorgali Perlato
- Finished Surface:
- Honed, Aged, Polished, Sawn Cut, Sanded, Rockfaced, Sandblasted, Bushhammered, Tumbled
Testing
- Water Absorption:
- 0.40 By weight %
- Density:
- 2673 Kg/m³
- Flexural Strength:
- 12.0 - 13.7 MPa
- Compressive Strength:
- 188.0 - 193.0 MPa
Description
-Petrographic description - EN 12407:2000- BIOPELSPARITE / BIOPELMICRITE(Folk 1959, 1962)
-Flexural strenght - EN 12372:1999-Rtf = 12,0 MPa - s = 1,7 MPa
-Flexural strenght after 48 freze-thaw cyclest-EN 12371:2001-Rtf = 9,2 MPa s = 2,6 MPa (Variations = reduce 10%)
-Comprehensive strenght- EN 1926:1999- Rm = 188 MPa, s =39,0 MPa
-Comprehensive strenght after 48 freze-thaw cycles - EN 12371:2001- Rm = 193 MPa, s =21,1 MPa (Variations = increase 3%)
-Water absorption under atmospheric pressure - EN 13755:2001- 0,4 %
-Apparent bulk volume- EN 1936:1999 - pb = 2673 kg/m3
-Apparent porosity - EN 1936:1999 - p0 = 1,2 %
-Resistance to OS2 in presence of humidity - EN 13919:2002 - Solution m = - 0,26 %, Solution m = - 0,05 %
- Abrasion resistance - Project norm prEN 14157:2001- 17,2 mm
- Water adsorption by capillarity - EN 1925:2000- C2 = 1,411 g/m2.s 0.5
-Resistance to thermal shock -EN 14066:2002 - m = - 0,01 %