C99600 Bronze vs. C46500 Brass
Both C99600 bronze and C46500 brass are copper alloys. They have 56% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 24 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (7, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is C99600 bronze and the bottom bar is C46500 brass.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 150 | |
| 100 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 27 to 34 | |
| 18 to 50 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.34 | |
| 0.31 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 56 | |
| 40 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 560 | |
| 380 to 610 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 250 to 300 | |
| 190 to 490 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 240 | |
| 170 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 200 | |
| 120 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1100 | |
| 900 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1050 | |
| 890 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 440 | |
| 380 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 19 | |
| 21 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 22 | |
| 23 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 8.1 | |
| 8.0 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.2 | |
| 2.7 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 51 | |
| 47 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 300 | |
| 330 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 130 to 150 | |
| 99 to 160 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 210 to 310 | |
| 170 to 1170 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 10 | |
| 7.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 22 | |
| 20 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 19 | |
| 13 to 21 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 19 | |
| 15 to 20 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 14 | |
| 13 to 20 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 1.0 to 2.8 | |
| 0 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0.020 to 0.060 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Cobalt (Co), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 50.8 to 60 | |
| 59 to 62 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 39 to 45 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0.5 to 1.0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 36.2 to 40.5 |
| Residuals, % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.4 |