Material
Copper C18000 (Copper-Nickel-Silicon-Chromium)
Copper C18000 is a beryllium-free alternative to the nickel-beryllium copper family. It offers strong mechanical properties and moderate conductivity.
Manufacturing processes
CNC
About
C18000 achieves strength and conductivity through nickel, silicon, and chromium precipitation hardening rather than beryllium, which makes it a genuine beryllium-free substitute for C17510 in many applications.
It offers good tensile strength (around 586 MPa) with moderate electrical conductivity (38-45% IACS) and good wear resistance at elevated temperatures.
Copper C18000 is suited to welding electrode holders, mold components for plastic injection and blow molding, studs, and spot/seam welding equipment for high-resistance alloys like stainless steel.
Technical Details
- Accuracy
- ±0.2% (lower limit of ±0.13 mm)
- Density
- 8.8 g/cm³
- Min. wall thickness
- -
Technical Properties
- Tensile strength
- 586 MPa
- Tensile modulus
- 114000 MPa
- Tensile elongation
- 10%
- Embossing
- min. 0.3 mm
- Engraving
- min. 0.3 mm
- Warping risk
- N/A