Grade 3 Babbitt Metal vs. C17500 Copper
Grade 3 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals classification, while C17500 copper belongs to the copper alloys. There are 17 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (16, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is grade 3 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is C17500 copper.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 56 | |
| 120 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.35 | |
| 0.34 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 21 | |
| 45 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 46 | |
| 170 to 760 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 79 | |
| 220 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 420 | |
| 1060 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 240 | |
| 1020 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 230 | |
| 390 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 21 | |
| 18 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 70 | |
| 60 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.4 | |
| 8.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 12 | |
| 4.7 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 200 | |
| 73 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 1210 | |
| 320 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 19 | |
| 120 to 2390 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 4.2 | |
| 7.5 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 17 | |
| 18 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 7.5 to 8.5 | |
| 0 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Beryllium (Be), % | 0 | |
| 0.4 to 0.7 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 to 0.080 | |
| 0 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Cobalt (Co), % | 0 | |
| 2.4 to 2.7 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 7.5 to 8.5 | |
| 95.6 to 97.2 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.080 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 to 0.35 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 82.3 to 85 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| Residuals, % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |