metals {formatdown}

Properties of metals

Description

Table of mechanical and thermal properties of selected metals.

Usage

data(metals, package = "formatdown")

Format

Classes data.table and data.frame: 6 observations of 5 variables:

metal

Character, name of material

dens

Numeric, density (kg m^{-3})

thrm_exp

Numeric, coefficient of thermal expansion (m m^{-1}K^{-1})

thrm_cond

Numeric, thermal conductivity (W m^{-1}K^{-1})

elast_mod

Numeric, modulus of elasticity (Pa)

Source

Marks' Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers 9/e (1987) E.A. Avallone and T. Baumeister (ed.), "Basic Properties of Several Metals", pp. 6-11, McGraw-Hill, NY.