C66100 Bronze vs. C40500 Penny Bronze
Both C66100 bronze and C40500 penny bronze are copper alloys. They have a very high 96% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 27 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (4, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is C66100 bronze and the bottom bar is C40500 penny bronze.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 120 | |
| 110 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 8.0 to 40 | |
| 3.0 to 49 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.34 | |
| 0.34 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 43 | |
| 43 |
| Shear Strength, MPa | 280 to 460 | |
| 210 to 310 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 410 to 790 | |
| 270 to 540 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 120 to 430 | |
| 79 to 520 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 260 | |
| 200 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1050 | |
| 1060 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1000 | |
| 1020 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 400 | |
| 380 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 34 | |
| 160 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 17 | |
| 18 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 29 | |
| 30 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 8.7 | |
| 8.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
| 2.7 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 42 | |
| 43 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 300 | |
| 320 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 53 to 120 | |
| 16 to 110 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 60 to 790 | |
| 28 to 1200 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 7.4 | |
| 7.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 19 | |
| 18 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 13 to 25 | |
| 8.5 to 17 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 14 to 22 | |
| 10 to 17 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 9.7 | |
| 48 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 15 to 29 | |
| 9.5 to 19 |
Alloy Composition
| Copper (Cu), % | 92 to 97 | |
| 94 to 96 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.25 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0.2 to 0.8 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 1.5 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 2.8 to 3.5 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 0.7 to 1.3 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 1.5 | |
| 2.1 to 5.3 |
| Residuals, % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |