EN 1.3956 Stainless Steel vs. EN 1.7703 Steel
Both EN 1.3956 stainless steel and EN 1.7703 steel are iron alloys. They have 61% 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 EN 1.3956 stainless steel and the bottom bar is EN 1.7703 steel.
Metric UnitsUS Customary Units
Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 27 | |
| 20 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 240 | |
| 320 to 340 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 79 | |
| 74 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 650 | |
| 670 to 690 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 330 | |
| 460 to 500 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 300 | |
| 250 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 1080 | |
| 460 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1420 | |
| 1470 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1430 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 13 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 22 | |
| 4.2 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 7.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 4.8 | |
| 2.5 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 68 | |
| 35 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 180 | |
| 61 |
Common Calculations
| PREN (Pitting Resistance) | 34 | |
| 5.6 |
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 | |
| 120 to 130 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 270 | |
| 570 to 650 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 23 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 21 | |
| 22 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 18 | |
| 19 to 20 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0.11 to 0.15 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 20.5 to 23.5 | |
| 2.0 to 2.5 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 51.9 to 62.1 | |
| 94.6 to 96.4 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 4.0 to 6.0 | |
| 0.3 to 0.6 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 1.5 to 3.0 | |
| 0.9 to 1.1 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 11.5 to 13.5 | |
| 0 to 0.25 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0 to 0.070 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.2 to 0.4 | |
| 0 to 0.012 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 to 0.015 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0.25 to 0.35 |