EN 1.3956 Stainless Steel vs. EN 1.7233 Steel
Both EN 1.3956 stainless steel and EN 1.7233 steel are iron alloys. They have 60% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 26 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (7, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is EN 1.3956 stainless steel and the bottom bar is EN 1.7233 steel.
Metric UnitsUS Customary Units
Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 200 | |
| 190 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 27 | |
| 18 to 23 |
| Fatigue Strength, MPa | 240 | |
| 270 to 530 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.28 | |
| 0.29 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 79 | |
| 73 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 650 | |
| 700 to 960 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 330 | |
| 380 to 780 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 300 | |
| 250 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 1080 | |
| 430 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1420 | |
| 1460 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1380 | |
| 1420 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 480 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 13 | |
| 13 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 22 | |
| 3.0 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.8 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 4.8 | |
| 1.6 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 68 | |
| 21 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 180 | |
| 53 |
Common Calculations
| PREN (Pitting Resistance) | 34 | |
| 3.3 |
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 150 | |
| 110 to 200 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 270 | |
| 380 to 1630 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 14 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 25 | |
| 24 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 23 | |
| 25 to 34 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 21 | |
| 22 to 28 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 18 | |
| 21 to 28 |
Alloy Composition
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.060 | |
| 0.39 to 0.45 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 20.5 to 23.5 | |
| 1.2 to 1.5 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 51.9 to 62.1 | |
| 96.2 to 97.5 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 4.0 to 6.0 | |
| 0.4 to 0.7 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 1.5 to 3.0 | |
| 0.5 to 0.7 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 11.5 to 13.5 | |
| 0 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0.2 to 0.4 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 to 0.040 | |
| 0 to 0.025 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 1.0 | |
| 0 to 0.4 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 to 0.035 |
| Vanadium (V), % | 0.1 to 0.3 | |
| 0 |