MakeItFrom.com
Menu (ESC)

EN 1.5502 Steel vs. EN 1.4658 Stainless Steel

Both EN 1.5502 steel and EN 1.4658 stainless steel are iron alloys. They have 59% of their average alloy composition in common. There are 29 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (6, in this case) are not shown.

For each property being compared, the top bar is EN 1.5502 steel and the bottom bar is EN 1.4658 stainless steel.

Metric UnitsUS Customary Units

Mechanical Properties

Brinell Hardness 120 to 160
260
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa 190
210
Elongation at Break, % 12 to 20
28
Fatigue Strength, MPa 190 to 290
530
Poisson's Ratio 0.29
0.27
Shear Modulus, GPa 73
81
Shear Strength, MPa 280 to 330
580
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa 400 to 1380
900
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa 270 to 440
730

Thermal Properties

Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g 250
300
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C 400
1100
Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C 1460
1450
Melting Onset (Solidus), °C 1420
1400
Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K 470
470
Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K 52
16
Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K 13
13

Otherwise Unclassified Properties

Base Metal Price, % relative 1.9
25
Density, g/cm3 7.8
7.8
Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material 1.4
4.5
Embodied Energy, MJ/kg 19
61
Embodied Water, L/kg 47
200

Common Calculations

Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 41 to 210
240
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 200 to 520
1280
Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points 13
15
Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points 24
25
Strength to Weight: Axial, points 14 to 49
32
Strength to Weight: Bending, points 15 to 35
26
Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s 14
4.3
Thermal Shock Resistance, points 12 to 40
24

Alloy Composition

Boron (B), % 0.00080 to 0.0050
0
Carbon (C), % 0.15 to 0.2
0 to 0.030
Chromium (Cr), % 0 to 0.3
26 to 29
Cobalt (Co), % 0
0.5 to 2.0
Copper (Cu), % 0 to 0.25
0 to 1.0
Iron (Fe), % 98 to 99.249
50.9 to 63.7
Manganese (Mn), % 0.6 to 0.9
0 to 1.5
Molybdenum (Mo), % 0
4.0 to 5.0
Nickel (Ni), % 0
5.5 to 9.5
Nitrogen (N), % 0
0.3 to 0.5
Phosphorus (P), % 0 to 0.025
0 to 0.035
Silicon (Si), % 0 to 0.3
0 to 0.5
Sulfur (S), % 0 to 0.025
0 to 0.010