S46500 Stainless Steel vs. Grade TDCrV Steel
Both S46500 stainless steel and grade TDCrV steel are iron alloys. They have 75% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 20 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (14, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is S46500 stainless steel and the bottom bar is grade TDCrV steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 190 | |
| 190 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 75 | |
| 80 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 1260 to 1930 | |
| 1730 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 250 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 780 | |
| 410 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1450 | |
| 1450 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1410 | |
| 1410 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 470 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 11 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 15 | |
| 2.1 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.9 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.6 | |
| 1.9 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 51 | |
| 26 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 120 | |
| 49 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 44 to 68 | |
| 61 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 33 to 44 | |
| 41 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 44 to 67 | |
| 51 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0.62 to 0.72 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 11 to 12.5 | |
| 0.4 to 0.6 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 72.6 to 76.1 | |
| 97.8 to 98.8 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 0.25 | |
| 0.5 to 0.9 |
| 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 to 0.025 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.25 | |
| 0.15 to 0.3 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 1.5 to 1.8 | |
| 0 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0 | |
| 0.15 to 0.25 |