S45500 Stainless Steel vs. Austempered Cast Iron
Both S45500 stainless steel and austempered cast iron are iron alloys. They have 78% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 23 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 austempered cast iron.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 280 to 500 | |
| 270 to 490 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 190 | |
| 180 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 3.4 to 11 | |
| 1.1 to 13 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 75 | |
| 62 to 69 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 1370 to 1850 | |
| 860 to 1800 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 1240 to 1700 | |
| 560 to 1460 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 270 | |
| 280 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1440 | |
| 1380 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1400 | |
| 1340 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 470 | |
| 490 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 11 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 17 | |
| 2.9 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.9 | |
| 7.5 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.8 | |
| 1.8 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 57 | |
| 25 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 120 | |
| 48 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 45 to 190 | |
| 19 to 95 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 24 | |
| 25 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 48 to 65 | |
| 32 to 66 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 35 to 42 | |
| 27 to 44 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 48 to 64 | |
| 25 to 53 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 3.4 to 3.8 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 11 to 12.5 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 1.5 to 2.5 | |
| 0 to 0.8 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 71.5 to 79.2 | |
| 89.6 to 94 |
| Magnesium (Mg), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0.3 to 0.4 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 7.5 to 9.5 | |
| 0 to 2.0 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Selenium (Se), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 2.3 to 2.7 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Tantalum (Ta), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0.8 to 1.4 | |
| 0 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |