C99600 Bronze vs. Sintered 2014 Aluminum
C99600 bronze belongs to the copper alloys classification, while sintered 2014 aluminum belongs to the aluminum alloys. There are 24 material properties with values for both materials. Properties with values for just one material (5, in this case) are not shown. Please note that the two materials have significantly dissimilar densities. This means that additional care is required when interpreting the data, because some material properties are based on units of mass, while others are based on units of area or volume.
For each property being compared, the top bar is C99600 bronze and the bottom bar is sintered 2014 aluminum.
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Mechanical Properties
| Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus, GPa | 150 | |
| 70 |
| Elongation at Break, % | 27 to 34 | |
| 0.5 to 3.0 |
| Poisson's Ratio | 0.34 | |
| 0.33 |
| Shear Modulus, GPa | 56 | |
| 26 |
| Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS), MPa | 560 | |
| 140 to 290 |
| Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof), MPa | 250 to 300 | |
| 97 to 280 |
Thermal Properties
| Latent Heat of Fusion, J/g | 240 | |
| 390 |
| Maximum Temperature: Mechanical, °C | 200 | |
| 170 |
| Melting Completion (Liquidus), °C | 1100 | |
| 650 |
| Melting Onset (Solidus), °C | 1050 | |
| 560 |
| Specific Heat Capacity, J/kg-K | 440 | |
| 880 |
| Thermal Expansion, µm/m-K | 19 | |
| 23 |
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
| Base Metal Price, % relative | 22 | |
| 10 |
| Density, g/cm3 | 8.1 | |
| 2.9 |
| Embodied Carbon, kg CO2/kg material | 3.2 | |
| 8.0 |
| Embodied Energy, MJ/kg | 51 | |
| 150 |
| Embodied Water, L/kg | 300 | |
| 1150 |
Common Calculations
| Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work), MJ/m3 | 130 to 150 | |
| 1.0 to 5.7 |
| Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience), kJ/m3 | 210 to 310 | |
| 68 to 560 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Axial, points | 10 | |
| 13 |
| Stiffness to Weight: Bending, points | 22 | |
| 47 |
| Strength to Weight: Axial, points | 19 | |
| 13 to 27 |
| Strength to Weight: Bending, points | 19 | |
| 20 to 33 |
| Thermal Shock Resistance, points | 14 | |
| 6.2 to 13 |
Alloy Composition
| Aluminum (Al), % | 1.0 to 2.8 | |
| 91.5 to 96.3 |
| Carbon (C), % | 0 to 0.050 | |
| 0 |
| Cobalt (Co), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Copper (Cu), % | 50.8 to 60 | |
| 3.5 to 5.0 |
| Iron (Fe), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Lead (Pb), % | 0 to 0.020 | |
| 0 |
| Magnesium (Mg), % | 0 | |
| 0.2 to 0.8 |
| Manganese (Mn), % | 39 to 45 | |
| 0 |
| Nickel (Ni), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Silicon (Si), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 to 1.2 |
| Tin (Sn), % | 0 to 0.1 | |
| 0 |
| Zinc (Zn), % | 0 to 0.2 | |
| 0 |
| Residuals, % | 0 | |
| 0 to 1.5 |