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ESD-Safe Silicon Carbide

ESD silicon carbide is a grade of silicon carbide. The graph bars on the material properties cards below compare ESD silicon carbide to other non-oxide engineering ceramics (top) and the entire database (bottom). A full bar means this is the highest value in the relevant set. A half-full bar means it's 50% of the highest, and so on.

Mechanical Properties

Compressive (Crushing) Strength

3900 MPa 570 x 103 psi

Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus

420 GPa 60 x 106 psi

Flexural Strength

490 MPa 71 x 103 psi

Fracture Toughness

3.9 MPa-m1/2 3.6 x 103 psi-in1/2

Poisson's Ratio

0.14

Thermal Properties

Maximum Temperature: Mechanical

500 °C 930 °F

Specific Heat Capacity

750 J/kg-K 0.18 BTU/lb-°F

Thermal Conductivity

140 W/m-K 82 BTU/h-ft-°F

Thermal Expansion

4.5 µm/m-K

Other Material Properties

Density

3.2 g/cm3 200 lb/ft3

Electrical Resistivity Order of Magnitude

3.3 10x Ω-m

Common Calculations

Stiffness to Weight: Axial

73 points

Stiffness to Weight: Bending

79 points

Strength to Weight: Axial

18 to 34 points

Strength to Weight: Bending

24 to 38 points

Thermal Diffusivity

60 mm2/s

Thermal Shock Resistance

6.9 to 18 points

Followup Questions

Further Reading

Properties of Silicon Carbide, Gary L. Harris (editor), 1995

Silicon Carbine Ceramics: Fundamental and Solid Reaction, Shigeyuki Somiya and Yoshizo Inomata (editors), 1991

Handbook of Refractory Carbides and Nitrides: Properties, Characteristics, Processing and Applications, Hugh O. Pierson, 1996

Ceramics and Composites: Processing Methods, Narottam P. Bansal and Aldo R. Boccaccini (editors), 2012

Springer Handbook of Condensed Matter and Materials Data, W. Martienssen and H. Warlimont (editors), 2005