MakeItFrom.com
Menu (ESC)

EN 1.4646 Stainless Steel vs. EN 1.5522 Steel

Both EN 1.4646 stainless steel and EN 1.5522 steel are iron alloys. They have 65% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 27 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (8, in this case) are not shown.

For each property being compared, the top bar is EN 1.4646 stainless steel and the bottom bar is EN 1.5522 steel.

Metric UnitsUS Customary Units

Mechanical Properties

Brinell Hardness 220
140 to 190
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 200
190
Elongation at Break, % 34
11 to 21
Fatigue Strength, MPa 340
210 to 330
Poisson's Ratio 0.28
0.29
Shear Modulus, GPa 77
73
Shear Strength, MPa 500
320 to 380
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa 750
450 to 1490
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa 430
300 to 520

Thermal Properties

Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g 290
250
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 910
400
Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C 1390
1460
Melting Onset (Solidus), °C 1340
1420
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 480
470
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 17
13

Otherwise Unclassified Properties

Base Metal Price, % relative 13
1.9
Density, g/cm3 7.7
7.8
Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material 2.8
1.4
Embodied Energy, MJ/kg 41
19
Embodied Water, L/kg 160
47

Common Calculations

Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 220
45 to 250
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 460
250 to 720
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 14
13
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 25
24
Strength to Weight: Axial, points 27
16 to 53
Strength to Weight: Bending, points 24
17 to 37
Thermal Shock Resistance, points 16
13 to 44

Alloy Composition

Boron (B), % 0
0.00080 to 0.0050
Carbon (C), % 0.020 to 0.1
0.2 to 0.24
Chromium (Cr), % 17 to 19
0
Copper (Cu), % 1.5 to 3.0
0 to 0.25
Iron (Fe), % 59 to 67.3
98 to 98.9
Manganese (Mn), % 10.5 to 12.5
0.9 to 1.2
Molybdenum (Mo), % 0 to 0.5
0
Nickel (Ni), % 3.5 to 4.5
0
Nitrogen (N), % 0.2 to 0.3
0
Phosphorus (P), % 0 to 0.050
0 to 0.025
Silicon (Si), % 0 to 1.0
0 to 0.3
Sulfur (S), % 0 to 0.015
0 to 0.025