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Alloy 36 (Invar®) Controlled Expansion Alloy

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Description

1.3912 (FeNi36) is a 36% nickel-iron alloy. It exhibits a near zero rate of thermal expansion from around –100°C up to 200°C. This is around a tenth of the expansion rate of carbon steels. Alloy 36 also demonstrates a high retention of strength and toughness at cryogenic temperatures, making it suitable for a variety of low temperature or low expansion applications. The alloy is ideally suited to areas where dimensional changes due to temperature must be minimal, such as tooling for aerospace composites, radio and electronic devices and structural members in precision equipment such as lasers, measuring devices, thermostats and cryogenic instrumentation. Alloy 36 can also be utilised in combination with a high expansion material to crate mechanical movement with temperature in thermomechanical controls and switchgear.

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Properties

General

PropertyTemperatureValue

Density

23.0 °C

8.13 g/cm³

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Mechanical

PropertyTemperatureValue

Elastic modulus

23.0 °C

140 GPa

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Elongation

23.0 °C

30 %

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Hardness, Vickers

23.0 °C

140 [-]

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Tensile strength

23.0 °C

480 MPa

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Yield strength

23.0 °C

310 MPa

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Thermal

PropertyTemperatureValue

Coefficient of thermal expansion

30.0 °C

1.2E-6 1/K

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150.0 °C

2.7E-6 1/K

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Melting point

1450 °C

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Specific heat capacity

23.0 °C

510 J/(kg·K)

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Thermal conductivity

23.0 °C

10.5 W/(m·K)

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Chemical properties

PropertyValue

Iron

63 %

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Manganese

0.6 %

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Nickel

36 %

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Silicon

0.4 %

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Technological properties

Property
Application areas

General: Positioning devices, bimetal thermostats, advanced composite moulds for aerospace industry, optical devices, echo boxes and filters for mobile telephones, magnetic shielding, small electrical transformers, metrology devices, scientific instruments, electrical circuit breakers, temperature regulators, clock balance wheels, pendulum clocks, precision condenser blades, radar and microwave cavity resonators, special electronic housings, seals, spacers, and specialized frames, high voltage transmission lines