Class 4 Tungsten vs. 60Cr-40Ni Alloy
Both class 4 tungsten and 60Cr-40Ni alloy are otherwise unclassified metals. Both are furnished in the as-fabricated (no temper or treatment) condition. There are 18 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (8, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.
For each property being compared, the top bar is class 4 tungsten and the bottom bar is 60Cr-40Ni alloy.
Metric UnitsUS Customary Units
Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 270 | |
| 220 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.25 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 110 | |
| 87 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 790 | |
| 870 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 580 | |
| 660 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 170 | |
| 370 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 130 | |
| 490 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 4.5 | |
| 16 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 16 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 24 | |
| 7.4 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 360 | |
| 110 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 380 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 620 | |
| 1000 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 9.6 | |
| 16 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 14 | |
| 26 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 31 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 12 | |
| 26 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 46 | |
| 18 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.25 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 58 to 62 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
| 34.5 to 42 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Tungsten (W), % | 97 | |
| 0 |
| Residuals, % | 3.0 | |
| 0 |