Grade 15 Babbitt Metal vs. 5049 Aluminum
Grade 15 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals classification, while 5049 aluminum belongs to the aluminum alloys. There are 16 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (15, 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 grade 15 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is 5049 aluminum.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 21 | |
| 52 to 88 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 23 | |
| 69 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.4 | |
| 0.33 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 8.2 | |
| 26 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 46 | |
| 400 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 280 | |
| 650 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 250 | |
| 620 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 140 | |
| 900 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 26 | |
| 24 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 17 | |
| 9.5 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 10 | |
| 2.7 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.6 | |
| 8.5 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 47 | |
| 150 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 840 | |
| 1180 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 1.2 | |
| 14 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 9.0 | |
| 50 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 94.7 to 97.9 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 14.5 to 17.5 | |
| 0 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0.8 to 1.4 | |
| 0 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 to 0.6 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 79 to 83.9 | |
| 0 |
| Magnesium (Mg), % | 0 | |
| 1.6 to 2.5 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 | |
| 0.5 to 1.1 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.4 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0.8 to 1.2 | |
| 0 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Residuals, % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.15 |