Grade 3 Babbitt Metal vs. S45500 Stainless Steel
Grade 3 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals classification, while S45500 stainless steel belongs to the iron alloys. There are 17 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (15, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is grade 3 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is S45500 stainless steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 27 | |
| 280 to 500 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 56 | |
| 190 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.35 | |
| 0.28 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 21 | |
| 75 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 46 | |
| 1240 to 1700 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 79 | |
| 270 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 420 | |
| 1440 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 240 | |
| 1400 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 230 | |
| 470 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 21 | |
| 11 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 70 | |
| 17 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 7.4 | |
| 7.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 12 | |
| 3.8 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 200 | |
| 57 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 1210 | |
| 120 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 4.2 | |
| 14 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 17 | |
| 24 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 7.5 to 8.5 | |
| 0 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 to 0.080 | |
| 0 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 11 to 12.5 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 7.5 to 8.5 | |
| 1.5 to 2.5 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.080 | |
| 71.5 to 79.2 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 to 0.35 | |
| 0 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
| 7.5 to 9.5 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.040 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Tantalum (Ta), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 82.3 to 85 | |
| 0 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 0.8 to 1.4 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |