S24000 Stainless Steel vs. AISI W5 Steel
Both S24000 stainless steel and AISI W5 steel are iron alloys. They have 66% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 19 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (16, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is S24000 stainless steel and the bottom bar is AISI W5 steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 72 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 770 | |
| 600 to 2360 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 250 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1390 | |
| 1450 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1350 | |
| 1410 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 17 | |
| 12 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 12 | |
| 2.3 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.7 | |
| 1.6 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 39 | |
| 21 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 48 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 28 | |
| 21 to 84 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 24 | |
| 20 to 50 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 | |
| 20 to 78 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.080 | |
| 1.1 to 1.2 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 17 to 19 | |
| 0.4 to 0.6 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 61.5 to 69 | |
| 96.6 to 98.4 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 11.5 to 14.5 | |
| 0.1 to 0.4 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 2.3 to 3.7 | |
| 0 to 0.2 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.2 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.75 | |
| 0.1 to 0.4 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Tungsten (W), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.15 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |