Automotive Malleable Cast Iron vs. Grade 3 Babbitt Metal
Automotive malleable cast iron belongs to the iron alloys classification, while grade 3 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 (11, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is automotive malleable cast iron and the bottom bar is grade 3 Babbitt Metal.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 130 to 290 | |
| 27 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 180 | |
| 56 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.29 | |
| 0.35 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 70 | |
| 21 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 220 to 590 | |
| 46 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 260 | |
| 79 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1410 | |
| 420 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1370 | |
| 240 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 230 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 14 | |
| 21 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 1.9 | |
| 70 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.4 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 1.5 | |
| 12 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 20 | |
| 200 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 45 | |
| 1210 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 130 to 950 | |
| 19 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 13 | |
| 4.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 17 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 0 | |
| 7.5 to 8.5 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.080 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Carbon (C), % | 2.2 to 2.9 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 7.5 to 8.5 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 93.6 to 96.7 | |
| 0 to 0.080 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.35 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0.15 to 1.3 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0.020 to 0.15 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0.9 to 1.9 | |
| 0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0.020 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 82.3 to 85 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |