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Bamboo Plywood vs. Grade 350 Maraging Steel

Bamboo plywood and grade 350 maraging steel belong to fundamentally different material chemistries. Bamboo plywood is a polymeric material, while grade 350 maraging steel is a metal. 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 (15, 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 bamboo plywood and the bottom bar is grade 350 maraging steel.

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Mechanical Properties

Compressive (Crushing) Strength, MPa 80
750 to 2400
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 18
190
Elongation at Break, % 3.0
4.1 to 18
Poisson's Ratio 0.39
0.3
Shear Modulus, GPa 1.3
75
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa 40
1140 to 2420

Thermal Properties

Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 1680
450
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 4.0
12

Otherwise Unclassified Properties

Density, g/cm3 0.7
8.2

Common Calculations

Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 14
13
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 120
23
Strength to Weight: Axial, points 16
38 to 82
Strength to Weight: Bending, points 37
29 to 49
Thermal Shock Resistance, points 40
35 to 74