AISI 301 Stainless Steel vs. PAI
AISI 301 stainless steel and PAI belong to fundamentally different material chemistries. AISI 301 stainless steel is a metal, while PAI is a polymeric material. Therefore, their performance will be even more dissimilar than would be suggested by the difference in properties. There are 14 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (31, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.
For each property being compared, the top bar is AISI 301 stainless steel and the bottom bar is PAI.
Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 4.0 to 8.3 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 7.4 to 46 | |
| 3.0 to 12 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 590 to 1460 | |
| 100 to 180 |
Thermal Properties
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 840 | |
| 260 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 910 to 1000 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 16 | |
| 0.26 to 0.53 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 17 | |
| 15 to 34 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 1.4 to 1.6 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 1.6 to 3.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 38 to 47 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 21 to 52 | |
| 19 to 34 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 20 to 37 | |
| 33 to 49 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 4.2 | |
| 0.16 to 0.41 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 12 to 31 | |
| 48 to 110 |