S46500 Stainless Steel vs. Grade 8 Babbitt Metal
S46500 stainless steel belongs to the iron alloys classification, while grade 8 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals. There are 16 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (17, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is S46500 stainless steel and the bottom bar is grade 8 Babbitt Metal.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 190 | |
| 24 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.41 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 75 | |
| 8.5 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 1120 to 1810 | |
| 23 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 46 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1450 | |
| 270 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1410 | |
| 240 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 470 | |
| 150 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 11 | |
| 24 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 15 | |
| 19 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.9 | |
| 10 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.6 | |
| 3.9 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 51 | |
| 53 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 120 | |
| 840 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 1.3 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 9.2 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 0 | |
| 14 to 16 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0.3 to 0.6 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 11 to 12.5 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 72.6 to 76.1 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 77.1 to 81.2 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 0.25 | |
| 0 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0.75 to 1.3 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 10.7 to 11.3 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.015 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.25 | |
| 0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 4.5 to 5.5 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 1.5 to 1.8 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |