Monel 400 vs. Grade 3 Babbitt Metal
Monel 400 belongs to the nickel alloys classification, while grade 3 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals. There are 17 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 Monel 400 and the bottom bar is grade 3 Babbitt Metal.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 160 | |
| 56 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.32 | |
| 0.35 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 62 | |
| 21 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 210 to 590 | |
| 46 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 270 | |
| 79 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1350 | |
| 420 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1300 | |
| 240 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 430 | |
| 230 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 14 | |
| 21 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 50 | |
| 70 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 8.9 | |
| 7.4 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 7.9 | |
| 12 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 110 | |
| 200 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 250 | |
| 1210 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 140 to 1080 | |
| 19 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 10 | |
| 4.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 21 | |
| 17 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 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 0.3 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 28 to 34 | |
| 7.5 to 8.5 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 2.5 | |
| 0 to 0.080 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.35 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 2.0 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 63 to 72 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.024 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 82.3 to 85 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |