Grade 8 Babbitt Metal vs. Type 2 Niobium
Both grade 8 Babbitt Metal and Type 2 niobium are otherwise unclassified metals. There are 15 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (12, in this case) are not shown.
For each property being compared, the top bar is grade 8 Babbitt Metal and the bottom bar is Type 2 niobium.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 15 | |
| 110 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 24 | |
| 110 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.41 | |
| 0.4 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 8.5 | |
| 38 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 23 | |
| 82 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 46 | |
| 320 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 150 | |
| 270 |
| Thermal Conductivity, W/m-K | 24 | |
| 52 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 24 | |
| 7.3 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 10 | |
| 8.6 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 840 | |
| 160 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 11 | |
| 32 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 1.3 | |
| 6.8 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 9.2 | |
| 18 |
| Thermal Diffusivity, mm2/s | 16 | |
| 23 |
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 0.010 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Hafnium (Hf), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0015 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 to 0.010 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 77.1 to 81.2 | |
| 0 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 0 | |
| 99.5 to 100 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.010 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.025 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Tantalum (Ta), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 4.5 to 5.5 | |
| 0 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.030 |
| Tungsten (W), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| Zirconium (Zr), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |