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S20910 Stainless Steel vs. SAE-AISI 51B60 Steel

Both S20910 stainless steel and SAE-AISI 51B60 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 51B60 steel.

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Mechanical Properties

Brinell Hardness 230 to 290
200
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 200
190
Elongation at Break, % 14 to 39
12 to 21
Fatigue Strength, MPa 310 to 460
280 to 340
Poisson's Ratio 0.28
0.29
Shear Modulus, GPa 79
73
Shear Strength, MPa 500 to 570
390 to 420
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa 780 to 940
660
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa 430 to 810
400 to 550

Thermal Properties

Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g 300
250
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 1080
420
Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C 1420
1450
Melting Onset (Solidus), °C 1380
1410
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
2.1
Density, g/cm3 7.8
7.8
Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material 4.8
1.4
Embodied Energy, MJ/kg 68
19
Embodied Water, L/kg 180
49

Common Calculations

Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 120 to 260
73 to 120
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 460 to 1640
420 to 800
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 14
13
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 25
24
Strength to Weight: Axial, points 28 to 33
23
Strength to Weight: Bending, points 24 to 27
22
Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s 3.6
12
Thermal Shock Resistance, points 17 to 21
19

Alloy Composition

Boron (B), % 0
0.00050 to 0.0030
Carbon (C), % 0 to 0.060
0.56 to 0.64
Chromium (Cr), % 20.5 to 23.5
0.7 to 0.9
Iron (Fe), % 52.1 to 62.1
97 to 97.8
Manganese (Mn), % 4.0 to 6.0
0.75 to 1.0
Molybdenum (Mo), % 1.5 to 3.0
0
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

Comparable Variants