Soda-lime Glass vs. Tungsten Carbide
Soda-lime glass belongs to the glass and glass-ceramics classification, while tungsten carbide belongs to the non-oxide engineering ceramics. There are 15 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (9, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.
For each property being compared, the top bar is soda-lime glass and the bottom bar is tungsten carbide.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 70 to 71 | |
| 630 |
| Knoop Hardness | 570 | |
| 1670 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.23 | |
| 0.24 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 41 to 180 | |
| 350 |
Thermal Properties
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 300 | |
| 1000 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 720 to 800 | |
| 280 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 1.0 to 1.1 | |
| 85 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 8.8 to 9.0 | |
| 5.4 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 2.4 | |
| 15 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 16 | |
| 24 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 56 | |
| 20 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 4.6 to 20 | |
| 6.6 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 11 to 28 | |
| 7.5 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 0.51 to 0.6 | |
| 21 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 4.7 to 20 | |
| 7.2 |