Table 1 Principal physical and mechanical parameters of limestone.

From: Numerical simulation of micro crack evolution and failure modes of limestone under uniaxial multi-level cyclic loading

Density/kg m−3

E/GPa

Poisson’s ratio

P wave velocity/m s−1

Porosity/%

UCS/MPa

2710

87.88

0.21

2850

0.48

117.25