Grade 7 Babbitt Metal vs. S17700 Stainless Steel
Grade 7 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals classification, while S17700 stainless steel belongs to the iron alloys. There are 18 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (17, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is grade 7 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is S17700 stainless steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 23 | |
| 180 to 430 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 26 | |
| 200 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.4 | |
| 0.28 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 9.1 | |
| 76 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 25 | |
| 430 to 1210 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 48 | |
| 290 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 270 | |
| 1440 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 240 | |
| 1400 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 150 | |
| 480 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 26 | |
| 11 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 23 | |
| 13 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 10 | |
| 7.7 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 4.4 | |
| 2.8 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 62 | |
| 40 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 880 | |
| 150 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 12 | |
| 460 to 3750 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 1.4 | |
| 14 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 9.6 | |
| 25 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0.75 to 1.5 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 14 to 16 | |
| 0 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0.3 to 0.6 | |
| 0 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.090 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 16 to 18 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 70.5 to 76.8 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 71.9 to 76.4 | |
| 0 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
| 6.5 to 7.8 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 9.3 to 10.7 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |