S20910 Stainless Steel vs. SAE-AISI 4140 Steel
Both S20910 stainless steel and SAE-AISI 4140 steel are iron alloys. They have 59% of their average alloy composition in common. 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 SAE-AISI 4140 steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 230 to 290 | |
| 200 to 310 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 14 to 39 | |
| 11 to 26 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 310 to 460 | |
| 360 to 650 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 79 | |
| 73 |
| Shear Strength, MPa | 500 to 570 | |
| 410 to 660 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 780 to 940 | |
| 690 to 1080 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 430 to 810 | |
| 590 to 990 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 300 | |
| 250 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 1080 | |
| 420 |
| 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 | |
| 43 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 16 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 22 | |
| 2.4 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 4.8 | |
| 1.5 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 68 | |
| 20 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 180 | |
| 51 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 120 to 260 | |
| 74 to 180 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 460 to 1640 | |
| 920 to 2590 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 28 to 33 | |
| 25 to 38 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 24 to 27 | |
| 22 to 30 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 3.6 | |
| 12 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 17 to 21 | |
| 20 to 32 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0.38 to 0.43 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 20.5 to 23.5 | |
| 0.8 to 1.1 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 52.1 to 62.1 | |
| 96.8 to 97.8 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 4.0 to 6.0 | |
| 0.75 to 1.0 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 1.5 to 3.0 | |
| 0.15 to 0.25 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 11.5 to 13.5 | |
| 0 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.2 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 to 0.035 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.75 | |
| 0.15 to 0.35 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |