Material class
Metals & Alloys
Metallic bonding — delocalized electron gas; crystalline (mostly FCC, BCC, HCP).
What you get
- High strength and stiffness with excellent toughness/ductility
- Electrically and thermally conductive
- Well-understood processing, joining (welding, brazing) and recycling
- Properties tunable via alloying and heat treatment
What you pay for it
- Prone to corrosion (except noble/passivated metals)
- Relatively dense
- Fatigue and creep at elevated temperature
Typical applications
Structures, machines, vehicles, pressure equipment, electrical conductors, tooling.
Processing routes
Casting, forging, rolling, extrusion, machining, powder metallurgy, additive (LPBF, DED), heat treatment.
Metals & Alloys in the materials library
17 entries in the library belong to this class, each with its own property table:
- AISI 1045 carbon steel — Medium-carbon steel
- AISI 4140 (42CrMo4) — Low-alloy steel
- AISI 304 / 1.4301 stainless — Austenitic stainless
- AISI 316L / 1.4404 stainless — Austenitic stainless
- 17-4PH (1.4542) — Precipitation-hardening stainless
- Ductile iron EN-GJS-400-15 — Cast iron
- Aluminum 6061-T6 — Al-Mg-Si (6xxx)
- Aluminum 7075-T6 — Al-Zn-Mg-Cu (7xxx)
- Ti-6Al-4V (Grade 5) — Titanium α+β
- Magnesium AZ31B — Mg-Al-Zn
- Copper Cu-ETP (C11000) — Pure copper
- Cartridge brass C26000 (CuZn30) — Brass
- Bearing bronze C93200 (SAE 660) — Bronze
- Monel 400 (NiCu30Fe) — Ni-Cu alloy
- Inconel 718 — Ni-base superalloy
- Hastelloy C-276 — Ni-Mo-Cr alloy
- Tungsten (pure) — Refractory metal
Representative materials
Steels (1045, 304, 17-4PH)Aluminum 6061/7075Ti-6Al-4VInconel 718Cu-ETP, brasses
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