60Cr-40Ni Alloy vs. Type 3 Niobium
Both 60Cr-40Ni alloy and Type 3 niobium are otherwise unclassified metals. There are 16 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (8, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is 60Cr-40Ni alloy and the bottom bar is Type 3 niobium.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 220 | |
| 100 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.25 | |
| 0.4 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 87 | |
| 38 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 870 | |
| 220 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 660 | |
| 140 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 370 | |
| 310 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 490 | |
| 270 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 16 | |
| 7.3 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 8.6 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 380 | |
| 160 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 1000 | |
| 93 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 16 | |
| 6.8 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 18 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 31 | |
| 7.2 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 9.5 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 18 | |
| 21 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.25 | |
| 0 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 to 0.010 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 58 to 62 | |
| 0 |
| Hafnium (Hf), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0015 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.010 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 34.5 to 42 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0 | |
| 98.6 to 99.2 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 to 0.3 | |
| 0 to 0.010 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.015 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Tantalum (Ta), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Tungsten (W), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Zirconium (Zr), % | 0 | |
| 0.8 to 1.2 |