S45500 Stainless Steel vs. ASTM A148 Cast Steel
Both S45500 stainless steel and ASTM A148 cast steel are iron alloys. There are 26 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (9, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is S45500 stainless steel and the bottom bar is ASTM A148 cast steel.
Metric UnitsUS Customary Units
Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 280 to 500 | |
| 190 to 390 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 190 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 3.4 to 11 | |
| 5.7 to 25 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 570 to 890 | |
| 280 to 670 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Reduction in Area, % | 34 to 45 | |
| 13 to 45 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 75 | |
| 73 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 1370 to 1850 | |
| 630 to 1300 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 1240 to 1700 | |
| 390 to 1160 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 270 | |
| 250 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 760 | |
| 400 to 430 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1440 | |
| 1460 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1400 | |
| 1420 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 470 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 11 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 17 | |
| 2.3 to 3.3 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.9 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.8 | |
| 1.5 to 1.7 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 57 | |
| 20 to 22 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 120 | |
| 48 to 53 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 45 to 190 | |
| 71 to 150 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 24 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 48 to 65 | |
| 22 to 46 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 35 to 42 | |
| 21 to 34 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 48 to 64 | |
| 18 to 38 |