AISI 205 Stainless Steel vs. ASTM A414 Steel
Both AISI 205 stainless steel and ASTM A414 steel are iron alloys. There are 27 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (6, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is AISI 205 stainless steel and the bottom bar is ASTM A414 steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 210 to 440 | |
| 110 to 180 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 11 to 51 | |
| 15 to 26 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 410 to 640 | |
| 140 to 260 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 73 |
| Shear Strength, MPa | 560 to 850 | |
| 230 to 370 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 800 to 1430 | |
| 360 to 590 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 450 to 1100 | |
| 190 to 350 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 250 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 880 | |
| 400 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1460 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1340 | |
| 1420 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 18 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 11 | |
| 2.2 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.8 to 7.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
| 1.5 to 1.6 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 37 | |
| 20 to 22 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 48 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 to 430 | |
| 69 to 130 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 510 to 3060 | |
| 100 to 330 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 29 to 52 | |
| 13 to 21 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 25 to 37 | |
| 14 to 20 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 29 | |
| 11 to 17 |