S20910 Stainless Steel vs. ASTM A514 Steel
Both S20910 stainless steel and ASTM A514 steel are iron alloys. There are 29 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (5, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is S20910 stainless steel and the bottom bar is ASTM A514 steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 230 to 290 | |
| 240 to 250 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 14 to 39 | |
| 18 to 21 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 310 to 460 | |
| 470 to 540 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 79 | |
| 73 |
| Shear Strength, MPa | 500 to 570 | |
| 490 to 520 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 780 to 940 | |
| 790 to 830 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 430 to 810 | |
| 690 to 770 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 300 | |
| 250 to 260 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 1080 | |
| 400 to 440 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1420 | |
| 1460 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1420 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 13 | |
| 37 to 51 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 16 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 22 | |
| 2.3 to 3.8 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 7.8 to 7.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 4.8 | |
| 1.6 to 1.8 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 68 | |
| 21 to 25 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 180 | |
| 48 to 57 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 120 to 260 | |
| 140 to 170 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 460 to 1640 | |
| 1280 to 1590 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 28 to 33 | |
| 28 to 29 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 24 to 27 | |
| 24 to 25 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 3.6 | |
| 10 to 14 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 17 to 21 | |
| 23 to 24 |