Marble
Marble is a type of common industrial natural stone. The graph bars on the material properties cards below compare marble to other natural stone materials (top) and the entire database (bottom). A full bar means this is the highest value in the relevant set. A half-full bar means it's 50% of the highest, and so on.
Mechanical Properties
Compressive (Crushing) Strength
540 MPa 78 x 103 psi
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus
54 GPa 7.8 x 106 psi
Poisson's Ratio
0.2
Shear Modulus
27 GPa 3.9 x 106 psi
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS)
9.0 MPa 1.3 x 103 psi
Thermal Properties
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical
250 °C 480 °F
Specific Heat Capacity
870 J/kg-K 0.21 BTU/lb-°F
Thermal Conductivity
3.1 W/m-K 1.8 BTU/h-ft-°F
Thermal Expansion
21 µm/m-K
Other Material Properties
Density
2.7 g/cm3 170 lb/ft3
Dielectric Strength (Breakdown Potential)
8.5 kV/mm 0.33 V/mil
Common Calculations
Stiffness to Weight: Axial
11 points
Stiffness to Weight: Bending
47 points
Strength to Weight: Axial
0.93 points
Strength to Weight: Bending
3.6 points
Thermal Diffusivity
1.3 mm2/s
Thermal Shock Resistance
0.57 points