Type 3 Niobium vs. 60Cr-40Ni Alloy
Both Type 3 niobium and 60Cr-40Ni alloy are otherwise unclassified metals. There are 16 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 Type 3 niobium and the bottom bar is 60Cr-40Ni alloy.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 100 | |
| 220 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.4 | |
| 0.25 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 38 | |
| 87 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 220 | |
| 870 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 140 | |
| 660 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 310 | |
| 370 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 270 | |
| 490 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 7.3 | |
| 16 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 8.6 | |
| 7.8 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 160 | |
| 380 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 93 | |
| 1000 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 6.8 | |
| 16 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 18 | |
| 26 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 7.2 | |
| 31 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 9.5 | |
| 26 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 21 | |
| 18 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.25 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Chromium (Cr), % | 0 | |
| 58 to 62 |
| Hafnium (Hf), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 to 0.0015 | |
| 0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 34.5 to 42 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 98.6 to 99.2 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 to 0.3 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 to 0.015 | |
| 0 |
| Phosphorus (P), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 to 1.0 |
| Sulfur (S), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.020 |
| Tantalum (Ta), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 to 0.5 |
| Tungsten (W), % | 0 to 0.030 | |
| 0 |
| Zirconium (Zr), % | 0.8 to 1.2 | |
| 0 |