Nickel Beryllium Alloy 360 (N00360)
Nickel beryllium 360 is a nickel alloy formulated for primary forming into wrought products. N00360 is the UNS number for this material. Additionally, the common industry name is Nickel Alloy 360.
It can have the lowest ductility among wrought nickels. In addition, it has the lowest melting temperature and can have the highest tensile strength.
The properties of nickel beryllium 360 include four common variations. This page shows summary ranges across all of them. For more specific values, follow the links immediately below. The graph bars on the material properties cards further below compare nickel beryllium 360 to: wrought nickels (top), all nickel alloys (middle), 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
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus
200 GPa 29 x 106 psi
Elongation at Break
1.0 to 30 %
Fatigue Strength
260 to 710 MPa 38 to 100 x 103 psi
Poisson's Ratio
0.3
Shear Modulus
77 GPa 11 x 106 psi
Shear Strength
510 to 1100 MPa 74 to 160 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS)
780 to 1860 MPa 110 to 270 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof)
380 to 1590 MPa 55 to 230 x 103 psi
Thermal Properties
Melting Completion (Liquidus)
1330 °C 2430 °F
Melting Onset (Solidus)
1200 °C 2190 °F
Specific Heat Capacity
460 J/kg-K 0.11 BTU/lb-°F
Thermal Conductivity
48 W/m-K 28 BTU/h-ft-°F
Thermal Expansion
14 µm/m-K
Other Material Properties
Density
8.3 g/cm3 520 lb/ft3
Electrical Conductivity: Equal Volume
5.0 % IACS
Electrical Conductivity: Equal Weight (Specific)
5.4 % IACS
Common Calculations
Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work)
12 to 190 MJ/m3
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience)
360 to 3440 kJ/m3
Stiffness to Weight: Axial
13 points
Stiffness to Weight: Bending
24 points
Strength to Weight: Axial
26 to 62 points
Strength to Weight: Bending
23 to 41 points
Thermal Diffusivity
13 mm2/s
Thermal Shock Resistance
19 to 46 points
Followup Questions
Further Reading
Microstructure of Superalloys, Madeleine Durand-Charre, 1998
Engineering Properties of Nickel and Nickel Alloys, John L. Everhart, 1971
Nickel Alloys, Ulrich Heubner (editor), 1998
CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, 4th ed., James F. Shackelford et al. (editors), 2015