Cold Worked Nickel Alloy 601
Cold worked nickel 601 is nickel 601 in the cold worked (strain hardened) condition. The graph bars on the material properties cards below compare cold worked nickel 601 to: wrought nickels (top), all nickel alloys (middle), and the entire database (bottom). A full bar means this is the highest value in the relevant set. A half-full bar means it's 50% of the highest, and so on.
Mechanical Properties
Elastic (Young's, Tensile) Modulus
200 GPa 28 x 106 psi
Elongation at Break
10 %
Fatigue Strength
380 MPa 55 x 103 psi
Poisson's Ratio
0.28
Shear Modulus
76 GPa 11 x 106 psi
Shear Strength
530 MPa 77 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Ultimate (UTS)
890 MPa 130 x 103 psi
Tensile Strength: Yield (Proof)
800 MPa 120 x 103 psi
Thermal Properties
Curie Temperature
-200 °C -320 °F
Latent Heat of Fusion
320 J/g
Maximum Temperature: Mechanical
1100 °C 2010 °F
Melting Completion (Liquidus)
1410 °C 2570 °F
Melting Onset (Solidus)
1360 °C 2490 °F
Specific Heat Capacity
470 J/kg-K 0.11 BTU/lb-°F
Thermal Conductivity
11 W/m-K 6.4 BTU/h-ft-°F
Thermal Expansion
14 µm/m-K
Electrical Properties
Electrical Conductivity: Equal Volume
1.5 % IACS
Electrical Conductivity: Equal Weight (Specific)
1.6 % IACS
Otherwise Unclassified Properties
Base Metal Price
49 % relative
Density
8.3 g/cm3 520 lb/ft3
Embodied Carbon
8.0 kg CO2/kg material
Embodied Energy
110 MJ/kg 49 x 103 BTU/lb
Embodied Water
280 L/kg 33 gal/lb
Common Calculations
Resilience: Ultimate (Unit Rupture Work)
86 MJ/m3
Resilience: Unit (Modulus of Resilience)
1630 kJ/m3
Stiffness to Weight: Axial
13 points
Stiffness to Weight: Bending
23 points
Strength to Weight: Axial
30 points
Strength to Weight: Bending
25 points
Thermal Diffusivity
2.8 mm2/s
Thermal Shock Resistance
23 points
Alloy Composition
| Ni | 58 to 63 | |
| Cr | 21 to 25 | |
| Fe | 7.7 to 20 | |
| Al | 1.0 to 1.7 | |
| Mn | 0 to 1.0 | |
| Cu | 0 to 1.0 | |
| Si | 0 to 0.5 | |
| C | 0 to 0.1 | |
| S | 0 to 0.015 |
All values are % weight. Ranges represent what is permitted under applicable standards.
Followup Questions
Further Reading
Microstructure of Superalloys, Madeleine Durand-Charre, 1998
Welding Metallurgy and Weldability of Nickel-Base Alloys, John C. Lippold et al., 2009
Engineering Properties of Nickel and Nickel Alloys, John L. Everhart, 1971
Nickel Alloys, Ulrich Heubner (editor), 1998
CRC Materials Science and Engineering Handbook, 4th ed., James F. Shackelford et al. (editors), 2015