AISI 205 Stainless Steel vs. SAE-AISI 4340 Steel
Both AISI 205 stainless steel and SAE-AISI 4340 steel are iron alloys. They have 69% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 27 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (6, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is AISI 205 stainless steel and the bottom bar is SAE-AISI 4340 steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 210 to 440 | |
| 210 to 360 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 11 to 51 | |
| 12 to 22 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 410 to 640 | |
| 330 to 740 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 73 |
| Shear Strength, MPa | 560 to 850 | |
| 430 to 770 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 800 to 1430 | |
| 690 to 1280 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 450 to 1100 | |
| 470 to 1150 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 250 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 880 | |
| 430 |
| 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 | |
| 3.5 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
| 1.7 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 37 | |
| 22 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 53 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 to 430 | |
| 79 to 170 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 510 to 3060 | |
| 590 to 3490 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 29 to 52 | |
| 24 to 45 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 25 to 37 | |
| 22 to 33 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 29 | |
| 20 to 38 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0.12 to 0.25 | |
| 0.38 to 0.43 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 16.5 to 18.5 | |
| 0.7 to 0.9 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 62.6 to 68.1 | |
| 95.1 to 96.3 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 14 to 15.5 | |
| 0.6 to 0.8 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0.2 to 0.3 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 1.0 to 1.7 | |
| 1.7 to 2.0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.32 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0 to 0.035 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0.15 to 0.35 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |