AISI 204 Stainless Steel vs. Grade 7 Babbitt Metal
AISI 204 stainless steel belongs to the iron alloys classification, while grade 7 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals. There are 18 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (16, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is AISI 204 stainless steel and the bottom bar is grade 7 Babbitt Metal.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 210 to 330 | |
| 23 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 26 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.4 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 9.1 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 380 to 1080 | |
| 25 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 48 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1410 | |
| 270 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1370 | |
| 240 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 150 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 17 | |
| 26 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 10 | |
| 23 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.7 | |
| 10 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.4 | |
| 4.4 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 35 | |
| 62 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 130 | |
| 880 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 360 to 2940 | |
| 12 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 1.4 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 9.6 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 0 | |
| 14 to 16 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0.3 to 0.6 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 15 to 17 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 69.6 to 76.4 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 71.9 to 76.4 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 7.0 to 9.0 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 1.5 to 3.0 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.15 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 9.3 to 10.7 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |