New Balmoral
New Balmoral has a strong red colour. This beautiful, durable granite breathes an atmosphere of dignity and luxury. Small-grained New Balmoral is ideal for small and medium-scale projects as well as for monuments.
Technical properties
| Water absorption (%) mean value | 0,11 |
| Standard deviation (%) | 0,00 |
| Apparent Density (kg/m3) mean value | 2630 |
| density from ... To ...(kg/m3) | 2620 to 2630 |
| Standard deviation(kg/m3) | 5 |
| Open porosity (%) mean value | 0,38 |
| standard deviation (%) | 0,01 |
| Flexural strength (MPa) mean value | 11,7 |
| Standard deviation(MPa) | 1,1 |
| Min exp value(MPa) | 9,5 |
| Flexural strength after frost (MPa) mean value | 11,6 |
| Change in mean flexural strength after 48 cycles (%) | 0,9 |
| Standard deviation(MPa) | 1,7 |
| Min exp value(MPa) | 8,2 |
| Compression strength (MPa) mean value | 165 |
| Standard deviation(MPa) | 11,3 |
| Min exp value(MPa) | 141 |
| Compression strength after frost (MPa) mean value | 167 |
| Standard deviation(MPa) | 31,4 |
| Min exp value(MPa) | 103 |
| Water absorption by Capillarity C (g/m2s0,5) mean value | 0,285 |
| Standard deviation(g/m2s0,5) | 0,041 |
| Skid resistance - dry polished mean value | 49,3 |
| Skid resistance - wet polished mean value | 11,4 |
| Skid resistance - dry honed mean value | 50,6 |
| Skid resistance - wet honed mean value | 34,5 |
| Abrasion resistance (mm) mean value | 17 |
| Resistance at the anchoring system | |
| Mean breaking Load(N) | 2700 |
| Min exp value (N) | 1861 |
| Standard deviation (N) | 500 |
| d1(mm) | 10,3 |
| bA(mm) | 44,4 |
| Resistance to Thermal shock | |
| visual changes | no |
| max Mass change (%) | 0,06 |
| max res. Freq. change (%) | 6 NR |
| Water absorption by Capillarity C (g/m2s0,5) | no directions |
| parallel mean value | |
| Standard deviation | |
| Water vapour resistance factor μ dry | 10000 |
| Water vapour resistance factor μ wet | 10000 |