So you are saying that titanium has higher tensile strength but lower compressive strength for objects with the same shape and size?
When you are not measuring strength per mass
Ti advantages are generally tensile strength, light weight and corrosion resistance but falls down with high load cycles
personally i'm fond of high grade CoCrMo for high strength biologic applications
What do you mean by biologic applications?
titanium and CoCrMo compete for a lot of the same applications but the latter is generally preferred for stuff like hips while titanium is preferred for dental work
steels are p much out
Thinking that Titanium is about as strong as steel while being much lighter.
Not sure about how to measure strength in Iron since there are Cast Iron that is very hard but not flexible and carbon steel and stainless steel.
But I vote Iron, since titanium is mostly light while there should be some super hard iron.
I think if you have to keep in mind that if you have the same volume of steel it will be a greater mass, and a lot of people that claim titanium is stronger are mentioning strength per mass instead of strength per volume
You also have to consider that the shape matters
But someone commented that it matters if you are measuring tensile strength vs compressive strength when comparing these metals
If I have the same volume then the steal will weigh about 1.8 times as much as the titanium. But as I understand it, this is where they should be about equal in strength.
But since Iron is such a wide spectrum I was just thinking that there must be some super hard Iron that is a lot stronger than Titanium
titanium has better tensile and ultimate yield strength but is inappropriate for high load cycle applications
and even the expensive titanium grades tend to lose out to iron on compressive strength