AISI 205 Stainless Steel vs. Automotive Malleable Cast Iron
Both AISI 205 stainless steel and automotive malleable cast iron are iron alloys. They have 67% of their average alloy composition in common. 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 malleable cast iron.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 210 to 440 | |
| 130 to 290 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 180 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 11 to 51 | |
| 1.0 to 10 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 77 | |
| 70 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 800 to 1430 | |
| 350 to 720 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 450 to 1100 | |
| 220 to 590 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 280 | |
| 260 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1410 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1340 | |
| 1370 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 480 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 18 | |
| 14 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 11 | |
| 1.9 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.6 | |
| 7.6 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 2.6 | |
| 1.5 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 37 | |
| 20 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 150 | |
| 45 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 to 430 | |
| 6.8 to 30 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 510 to 3060 | |
| 130 to 950 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 26 | |
| 25 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 29 to 52 | |
| 13 to 26 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 25 to 37 | |
| 14 to 24 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 16 to 29 | |
| 9.9 to 21 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0.12 to 0.25 | |
| 2.2 to 2.9 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 16.5 to 18.5 | |
| 0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 62.6 to 68.1 | |
| 93.6 to 96.7 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 14 to 15.5 | |
| 0.15 to 1.3 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 1.0 to 1.7 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.32 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0.020 to 0.15 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0.9 to 1.9 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0.020 to 0.2 |