Tensile Strength Of Stone
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This section is from the book "Notes On Building Construction", by Henry Fidler. Also available from Amazon: Notes on building construction.
Tensile Strength Of Stone
Stone is rarely employed so as to be subject to a tensile stress. The following Table is chiefly from Mr. Stoney's work on Strains, and he remarks that it would be well to have the figures corroborated.
Tearing Weight per Square Inch in lbs. | Authority. | |
Arbroath paving .... | 1261 | Buchanan. |
Caithness do. .... | 1054 | Do. |
Chilmark..... | 500 | Do. |
Craigleith stone .... | 453 | Do. |
Hailes...... | 336 | Do. |
Humbie ...... | 283 | Do. |
Binnie ...... | 279 | Do. |
Whinstone ..... | 1469 | Do. |
Marble, white ..... | 722 | Hopkinson |
Do. ..... | 551 | Do. |
Slate ...... | 9600 to 12,880 | Rankine. |
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