N10001 Nickel vs. Grade 5 Titanium
N10001 nickel belongs to the nickel alloys classification, while grade 5 titanium belongs to the titanium alloys. There are 26 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (7, 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 N10001 nickel and the bottom bar is grade 5 titanium.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 220 | |
| 110 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 45 | |
| 8.6 to 11 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 300 | |
| 530 to 630 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.31 | |
| 0.32 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 84 | |
| 40 |
| Shear Strength, MPa | 550 | |
| 600 to 710 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 780 | |
| 1000 to 1190 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 350 | |
| 910 to 1110 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 320 | |
| 410 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 900 | |
| 330 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1620 | |
| 1610 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1570 | |
| 1650 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 390 | |
| 560 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 10 | |
| 8.9 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 75 | |
| 36 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 9.2 | |
| 4.4 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 15 | |
| 38 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 200 | |
| 610 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 260 | |
| 200 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 290 | |
| 100 to 110 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 280 | |
| 3980 to 5880 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 13 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 22 | |
| 35 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 24 | |
| 62 to 75 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 21 | |
| 50 to 56 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 25 | |
| 76 to 91 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 5.5 to 6.8 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 to 0.080 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 |
| Cobalt (Co), % | 0 to 2.5 | |
| 0 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.015 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 4.0 to 6.0 | |
| 0 to 0.4 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 26 to 30 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 58 to 69.8 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 87.4 to 91 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0.2 to 0.4 | |
| 3.5 to 4.5 |
| Yttrium (Y), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Residuals, % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.4 |