EN 1.5410 Steel vs. S46910 Stainless Steel
Both EN 1.5410 steel and S46910 stainless steel are iron alloys. They have 72% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 26 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (9, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is EN 1.5410 steel and the bottom bar is S46910 stainless steel.
Metric UnitsUS Customary Units
Mechanical Properties
Brinell Hardness | 170 to 190 | |
270 to 630 |
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 190 | |
200 |
Elongation at Break, % | 20 to 25 | |
2.2 to 11 |
Fatigue Strength, MPa | 290 to 330 | |
250 to 1020 |
Poisson's Ratio | 0.29 | |
0.28 |
Shear Modulus, GPa | 73 | |
76 |
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 560 to 620 | |
680 to 2470 |
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 400 to 480 | |
450 to 2290 |
Thermal Properties
Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 250 | |
280 |
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 400 | |
810 |
Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1460 | |
1460 |
Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1420 | |
1420 |
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 470 | |
470 |
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 13 | |
11 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
Base Metal Price, % relative | 2.3 | |
18 |
Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
7.9 |
Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 1.7 | |
4.1 |
Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 22 | |
55 |
Embodied Water, L/kg | 49 | |
140 |
Common Calculations
Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 120 to 130 | |
48 to 130 |
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 430 to 610 | |
510 to 4780 |
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 13 | |
14 |
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 24 | |
24 |
Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 20 to 22 | |
24 to 86 |
Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 19 to 21 | |
22 to 51 |
Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 18 | |
23 to 84 |
Alloy Composition
Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
0.15 to 0.5 |
Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.12 | |
0 to 0.030 |
Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
11 to 13 |
Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
1.5 to 3.5 |
Iron (Fe), % | 96.9 to 98.6 | |
65 to 76 |
Manganese (Mn), % | 1.2 to 1.8 | |
0 to 1.0 |
Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0.2 to 0.4 | |
3.0 to 5.0 |
Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
8.0 to 10 |
Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.025 | |
0 to 0.030 |
Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.6 | |
0 to 0.7 |
Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
0 to 0.015 |
Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
0.5 to 1.2 |
Vanadium (V), % | 0.050 to 0.1 | |
0 |