Grade 20 Titanium vs. Grade 3 Babbitt Metal
Grade 20 titanium belongs to the titanium alloys classification, while grade 3 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals. There are 16 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (13, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is grade 20 titanium and the bottom bar is grade 3 Babbitt Metal.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 120 | |
| 56 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.32 | |
| 0.35 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 47 | |
| 21 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 850 to 1190 | |
| 46 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 400 | |
| 79 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1660 | |
| 420 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1600 | |
| 240 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 520 | |
| 230 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 9.6 | |
| 21 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 5.0 | |
| 7.4 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 52 | |
| 12 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 860 | |
| 200 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 350 | |
| 1210 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 2940 to 5760 | |
| 19 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 4.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 33 | |
| 17 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 3.0 to 4.0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 0 | |
| 7.5 to 8.5 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.080 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 5.5 to 6.5 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 7.5 to 8.5 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.3 | |
| 0 to 0.080 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.35 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 3.5 to 4.5 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 to 0.12 | |
| 0 |
| Palladium (Pd), % | 0.040 to 0.080 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 82.3 to 85 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 71 to 77 | |
| 0 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 7.5 to 8.5 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Zirconium (Zr), % | 3.5 to 4.5 | |
| 0 |
| Residuals, % | 0 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |