C70620 Copper-nickel vs. 6063 Aluminum
C70620 copper-nickel belongs to the copper alloys classification, while 6063 aluminum belongs to the aluminum alloys. There are 22 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (12, 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 C70620 copper-nickel and the bottom bar is 6063 aluminum.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 120 | |
| 68 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.34 | |
| 0.33 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 46 | |
| 26 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 300 to 570 | |
| 110 to 300 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 220 | |
| 400 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 220 | |
| 160 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1120 | |
| 650 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1060 | |
| 620 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 390 | |
| 900 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 49 | |
| 190 to 220 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 17 | |
| 23 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 33 | |
| 9.5 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 8.9 | |
| 2.7 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.4 | |
| 8.3 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 51 | |
| 150 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 300 | |
| 1190 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 7.7 | |
| 14 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 19 | |
| 50 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 9.3 to 18 | |
| 11 to 31 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 11 to 17 | |
| 18 to 37 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 14 | |
| 79 to 89 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 10 to 20 | |
| 4.8 to 13 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 97.5 to 99.4 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 86.5 to 90 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 1.0 to 1.8 | |
| 0 to 0.35 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Magnesium (Mg), % | 0 | |
| 0.45 to 0.9 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 9.0 to 11 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0.2 to 0.6 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Residuals, % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.15 |