Grade 8 Babbitt Metal vs. AISI 201 Stainless Steel
Grade 8 Babbitt Metal belongs to the otherwise unclassified metals classification, while AISI 201 stainless steel belongs to the iron alloys. There are 20 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (14, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is grade 8 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is AISI 201 stainless steel.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 15 | |
| 200 to 440 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 24 | |
| 200 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.41 | |
| 0.28 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 8.5 | |
| 77 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 23 | |
| 300 to 1080 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 46 | |
| 280 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 270 | |
| 1410 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 240 | |
| 1370 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 150 | |
| 480 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 24 | |
| 15 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 24 | |
| 17 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 19 | |
| 12 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 10 | |
| 7.7 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.9 | |
| 2.6 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 53 | |
| 38 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 840 | |
| 140 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 11 | |
| 230 to 2970 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 1.3 | |
| 14 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 9.2 | |
| 25 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 16 | |
| 4.0 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 14 to 16 | |
| 0 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0.3 to 0.6 | |
| 0 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.15 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 16 to 18 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 67.5 to 75 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 77.1 to 81.2 | |
| 0 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 | |
| 5.5 to 7.5 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
| 3.5 to 5.5 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.25 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.060 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 4.5 to 5.5 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |