AISI 205 Stainless Steel vs. EN 1.7027 Steel
Both AISI 205 stainless steel and EN 1.7027 steel are iron alloys. They have 68% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 21 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (12, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is AISI 205 stainless steel and the bottom bar is EN 1.7027 steel.
Metric UnitsUS Customary Units
Mechanical Properties
Brinell Hardness | 210 to 440 | |
150 to 180 |
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
190 |
Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
0.29 |
Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
73 |
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 800 to 1430 | |
490 to 1460 |
Thermal Properties
Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
250 |
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 880 | |
420 |
Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1380 | |
1460 |
Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1340 | |
1420 |
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
470 |
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 18 | |
13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
Base Metal Price, % relative | 11 | |
2.3 |
Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
7.8 |
Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
1.4 |
Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 37 | |
19 |
Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
51 |
Common Calculations
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
13 |
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
24 |
Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 29 to 52 | |
17 to 52 |
Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 25 to 37 | |
18 to 36 |
Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 29 | |
14 to 43 |
Alloy Composition
Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.050 |
Carbon (C), % | 0.12 to 0.25 | |
0.17 to 0.23 |
Chromium (Cr), % | 16.5 to 18.5 | |
0.9 to 1.2 |
Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.3 |
Iron (Fe), % | 62.6 to 68.1 | |
97.1 to 98.5 |
Manganese (Mn), % | 14 to 15.5 | |
0.6 to 0.9 |
Nickel (Ni), % | 1.0 to 1.7 | |
0 |
Nitrogen (N), % | 0.32 to 0.4 | |
0 |
Oxygen (O), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.0020 |
Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
0 to 0.025 |
Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
0 to 0.4 |
Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
0 to 0.030 |