S20910 Stainless Steel vs. Nickel 200
S20910 stainless steel belongs to the iron alloys classification, while nickel 200 belongs to the nickel alloys. There are 28 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (8, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is S20910 stainless steel and the bottom bar is nickel 200.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 180 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 14 to 39 | |
| 23 to 44 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 310 to 460 | |
| 120 to 350 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.31 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 79 | |
| 70 |
| Shear Strength, MPa | 500 to 570 | |
| 300 to 340 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 780 to 940 | |
| 420 to 540 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 430 to 810 | |
| 120 to 370 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 300 | |
| 290 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 1080 | |
| 900 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1420 | |
| 1460 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1440 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 450 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 13 | |
| 69 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 16 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 22 | |
| 65 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 8.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 4.8 | |
| 11 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 68 | |
| 150 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 180 | |
| 230 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 120 to 260 | |
| 110 to 150 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 460 to 1640 | |
| 42 to 370 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 11 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 21 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 28 to 33 | |
| 13 to 17 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 24 to 27 | |
| 14 to 17 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 3.6 | |
| 17 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 17 to 21 | |
| 13 to 16 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0 to 0.15 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 20.5 to 23.5 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.25 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 52.1 to 62.1 | |
| 0 to 0.4 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 4.0 to 6.0 | |
| 0 to 0.35 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 1.5 to 3.0 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 11.5 to 13.5 | |
| 99 to 100 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.2 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.75 | |
| 0 to 0.35 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.010 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |