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S20910 Stainless Steel vs. SAE-AISI 52100 Steel

Both S20910 stainless steel and SAE-AISI 52100 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 52100 steel.

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Mechanical Properties

Brinell Hardness 230 to 290
180 to 210
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 200
190
Elongation at Break, % 14 to 39
10 to 20
Fatigue Strength, MPa 310 to 460
250 to 340
Poisson's Ratio 0.28
0.29
Shear Modulus, GPa 79
72
Shear Strength, MPa 500 to 570
370 to 420
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa 780 to 940
590 to 2010
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa 430 to 810
360 to 560

Thermal Properties

Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g 300
250
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 1080
430
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
47
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 16
12 to 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
54 to 310
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 460 to 1640
350 to 840
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 14
13
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 25
24
Strength to Weight: Axial, points 28 to 33
21 to 72
Strength to Weight: Bending, points 24 to 27
20 to 45
Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s 3.6
13
Thermal Shock Resistance, points 17 to 21
19 to 61

Alloy Composition

Carbon (C), % 0 to 0.060
0.93 to 1.1
Chromium (Cr), % 20.5 to 23.5
1.4 to 1.6
Iron (Fe), % 52.1 to 62.1
96.5 to 97.3
Manganese (Mn), % 4.0 to 6.0
0.25 to 0.45
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 0.025
Silicon (Si), % 0 to 0.75
0.15 to 0.35
Sulfur (S), % 0 to 0.030
0 to 0.015
Vanadium (V), % 0.1 to 0.3
0

Comparable Variants