Type 4 Niobium vs. Grade 15 Babbitt Metal
Both Type 4 niobium and grade 15 Babbitt Metal are otherwise unclassified metals. There are 11 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 Type 4 niobium and the bottom bar is grade 15 Babbitt Metal.
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Mechanical Properties
| Brinell Hardness | 120 | |
| 21 |
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 110 | |
| 23 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.4 | |
| 0.4 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 38 | |
| 8.2 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 310 | |
| 46 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 270 | |
| 140 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 7.3 | |
| 26 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Density, g/cm3 | 8.6 | |
| 10 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 160 | |
| 840 |
Common Calculations
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 6.8 | |
| 1.2 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 18 | |
| 9.0 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Antimony (Sb), % | 0 | |
| 14.5 to 17.5 |
| Arsenic (As), % | 0 | |
| 0.8 to 1.4 |
| Bismuth (Bi), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Cadmium (Cd), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.050 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.6 |
| Hafnium (Hf), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Hydrogen (H), % | 0 to 0.0015 | |
| 0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 to 0.1 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 | |
| 79 to 83.9 |
| Molybdenum (Mo), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| Niobium (Nb), % | 98.1 to 99.2 | |
| 0 |
| Nitrogen (N), % | 0 to 0.010 | |
| 0 |
| Oxygen (O), % | 0 to 0.025 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.0050 | |
| 0 |
| Tantalum (Ta), % | 0 to 0.5 | |
| 0 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 | |
| 0.8 to 1.2 |
| Titanium (Ti), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Tungsten (W), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 | |
| 0 to 0.0050 |
| Zirconium (Zr), % | 0.8 to 1.2 | |
| 0 |