Piasentina stone Technical data

The Piasentina stone appears with its unmistakable light grey colour, sometimes tending towards brown or reddish, barely veined with white and when the surface finishes vary, it responds with slight chromatic changes that, starting from the light grey of the sawn surface finishes, reaches dark grey shades after polishing, thus allowing different aesthetic combinations within the same material.

There are no other types of stone comparable to Piasentina stone, which lends itself to any kind of application, from building cladding (external and internal), to pavings, to design objects and works of art; thanks to its beauty, resistance, duration, workability and low water absorption coefficient.

The Piasentina stone was also awarded the “European Collective Mark”, which certifies its geological and mechanical properties, petrographic constitution, its origin and authenticity.

The technical properties of the Piasentina stone

Physical-mechanical properties of the Piasentina stone

Weight per Unit of Volume:

2.690 Kg/m3

Breaking load due to uniaxial compression:

0,18 %

Water absorption:

156 MPa

Compression breaking load after freeze-thaw cycles:

147 MPa

Tangent modulus of elasticity:

64.600 MPa

Breaking load due to indirect traction following bending:

30,1 MPa

Wear resistance: coefficient of friction with tribometer (reference to San Fedelino granite):

0,58

Shock resistance (minimum fall height):

31 cm

Thermal linear dilatation coefficient:

5,4 ( 10-6 x °C-1 )

Knoop micro-hardness:

1.824 Mpa

Slip resistance without polishing (USRV)

Sawn surface

81

Flamed surface

86

Bush-hammered surface

86

Tests carried out at the Polytechnic Institute of Turin, the department of “Georisorse e Territorio” according to the current UNI and UNI EN standards.