Grade 2 Babbitt Metal vs. Type 3 Niobium
Both grade 2 Babbitt Metal and Type 3 niobium are otherwise unclassified metals. There are 13 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (14, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is grade 2 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is Type 3 niobium.
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Mechanical Properties
Brinell Hardness | 25 | |
110 |
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 53 | |
100 |
Poisson's Ratio | 0.35 | |
0.4 |
Shear Modulus, GPa | 19 | |
38 |
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 42 | |
140 |
Thermal Properties
Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 72 | |
310 |
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 230 | |
270 |
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 21 | |
7.3 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
Density, g/cm3 | 7.3 | |
8.6 |
Embodied Water, L/kg | 1240 | |
160 |
Common Calculations
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 17 | |
93 |
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 4.0 | |
6.8 |
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 17 | |
18 |
Alloy Composition
Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
0 |
Antimony (Sb), % | 7.0 to 8.0 | |
0 |
Arsenic (As), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
0 |
Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 to 0.080 | |
0 |
Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
0 |
Carbon (C), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.010 |
Copper (Cu), % | 3.0 to 4.0 | |
0 |
Hafnium (Hf), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.020 |
Hydrogen (H), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.0015 |
Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.080 | |
0 to 0.0050 |
Lead (Pb), % | 0 to 0.35 | |
0 |
Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.010 |
Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.0050 |
Niobium (Nb), % | 0 | |
98.6 to 99.2 |
Nitrogen (N), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.010 |
Oxygen (O), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.015 |
Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.0050 |
Tantalum (Ta), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.1 |
Tin (Sn), % | 87.3 to 90 | |
0 |
Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.020 |
Tungsten (W), % | 0 | |
0 to 0.030 |
Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
0 |
Zirconium (Zr), % | 0 | |
0.8 to 1.2 |