S45500 Stainless Steel vs. ASTM A732 Cast Steel
Both S45500 stainless steel and ASTM A732 cast steel are iron alloys. There are 25 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (10, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is S45500 stainless steel and the bottom bar is ASTM A732 cast steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 280 to 500 | |
| 140 to 440 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 190 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 3.4 to 11 | |
| 4.0 to 25 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 570 to 890 | |
| 230 to 750 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 75 | |
| 72 to 73 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 1370 to 1850 | |
| 460 to 1470 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 1240 to 1700 | |
| 310 to 1340 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 270 | |
| 250 to 260 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 760 | |
| 400 to 430 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1440 | |
| 1440 to 1460 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1400 | |
| 1400 to 1420 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 470 | |
| 470 to 480 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 11 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 17 | |
| 2.0 to 3.8 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.9 | |
| 7.8 to 7.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.8 | |
| 1.4 to 1.7 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 57 | |
| 19 to 24 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 120 | |
| 47 to 54 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 45 to 190 | |
| 45 to 130 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 24 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 48 to 65 | |
| 16 to 52 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 35 to 42 | |
| 17 to 37 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 48 to 64 | |
| 14 to 43 |