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(Since magnesium does not have an endurance limt, the fatigue strength shown is for 50e7 cycles of reversed stress. Data is courtesy of American Magnesium Corporation.)
Tensile Compres-
Yield Tensile Elonga- sive yield Brinell Shear Fatigue
strength, strength, tion in strength, hardness strength, strength,
Magnesium Alloy kpsi kpsi 2 in, % kpsi H_b kpsi kpsi
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Cast AM 265C 11 27 6 11 48 11
Cast AM 240-T4 12 35 9 12 52 20 11
Cast AM 260-T6 20 38 3 20 78 22 11.5
Die-cast AM 263 22 34 3 14
Wrought AM 3S 30 40 7 11 40-52 16.7 11
Wrought AM C52S 30 40 17 20 50-71 19 15
Wrought AM C57S 32 44 14 20 55-74 20.5 17
Wrought AM 59S 38 51 9 27 70 22 18
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