AISI 205 Stainless Steel vs. Automotive Grey Cast Iron
Both AISI 205 stainless steel and automotive grey cast iron are iron alloys. There are 24 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (9, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is AISI 205 stainless steel and the bottom bar is automotive grey cast iron.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 210 to 440 | |
| 160 to 280 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 180 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 11 to 51 | |
| 9.6 to 14 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 69 to 70 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 800 to 1430 | |
| 140 to 290 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 450 to 1100 | |
| 94 to 200 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 260 to 280 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1380 to 1390 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1340 | |
| 1340 to 1350 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 490 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 18 | |
| 12 to 14 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 11 | |
| 1.9 to 3.0 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.5 to 7.6 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
| 1.5 to 1.7 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 37 | |
| 21 to 24 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 44 to 51 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 to 430 | |
| 18 to 25 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 510 to 3060 | |
| 25 to 110 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 25 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 29 to 52 | |
| 5.2 to 11 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 25 to 37 | |
| 8.0 to 13 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 29 | |
| 4.2 to 8.6 |