SAE-AISI 1055 Steel vs. Grade 7 Babbitt Metal
SAE-AISI 1055 steel belongs to the iron alloys classification, while grade 7 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals. There are 18 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (15, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is SAE-AISI 1055 steel and the bottom bar is grade 7 Babbitt Metal.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 220 | |
| 23 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 190 | |
| 26 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.29 | |
| 0.4 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 72 | |
| 9.1 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 400 to 630 | |
| 25 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 250 | |
| 48 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1460 | |
| 270 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1420 | |
| 240 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 470 | |
| 150 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 12 | |
| 26 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 1.8 | |
| 23 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 10 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 1.4 | |
| 4.4 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 18 | |
| 62 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 46 | |
| 880 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 440 to 1070 | |
| 12 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 13 | |
| 1.4 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 24 | |
| 9.6 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 0 | |
| 14 to 16 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0.3 to 0.6 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0.5 to 0.6 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 98.4 to 98.9 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 71.9 to 76.4 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0.6 to 0.9 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 9.3 to 10.7 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |