Grade 8 Babbitt Metal vs. S45000 Stainless Steel
Grade 8 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals classification, while S45000 stainless steel belongs to the iron alloys. There are 20 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 8 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is S45000 stainless steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 15 | |
| 280 to 410 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 24 | |
| 200 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.41 | |
| 0.28 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 8.5 | |
| 76 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 23 | |
| 580 to 1310 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 46 | |
| 280 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 270 | |
| 1440 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 240 | |
| 1390 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 150 | |
| 480 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 24 | |
| 17 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 24 | |
| 11 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 19 | |
| 13 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 10 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.9 | |
| 2.8 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 53 | |
| 39 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 840 | |
| 130 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 11 | |
| 850 to 4400 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 1.3 | |
| 14 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 9.2 | |
| 25 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 16 | |
| 4.5 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| 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 0.050 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 14 to 16 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 1.3 to 1.8 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 72.1 to 79.3 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 77.1 to 81.2 | |
| 0 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0.5 to 1.0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
| 5.0 to 7.0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 4.5 to 5.5 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |