AISI 205 Stainless Steel vs. EN 1.7230 Steel
Both AISI 205 stainless steel and EN 1.7230 steel are iron alloys. They have 68% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 26 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (8, 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 1.7230 steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 210 to 440 | |
| 220 to 270 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 11 to 51 | |
| 11 to 12 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 410 to 640 | |
| 320 to 460 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 73 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 800 to 1430 | |
| 720 to 910 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 450 to 1100 | |
| 510 to 740 |
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 | |
| 2.4 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
| 1.5 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 37 | |
| 20 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 51 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 to 430 | |
| 79 to 97 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 510 to 3060 | |
| 700 to 1460 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 29 to 52 | |
| 26 to 32 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 25 to 37 | |
| 23 to 27 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 29 | |
| 21 to 27 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0.12 to 0.25 | |
| 0.3 to 0.37 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 16.5 to 18.5 | |
| 0.8 to 1.2 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 62.6 to 68.1 | |
| 96.7 to 98.3 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 14 to 15.5 | |
| 0.5 to 0.8 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0.15 to 0.3 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 1.0 to 1.7 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.32 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0 to 0.025 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 to 0.6 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |