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NEURODESIGN® · MATERIAL CLASS · METAL
Stainless steel
Corrosion-resistant steel alloy. Very high thermal effusivity, finish-dependent specularity.
Decisive attributes
The attributes that most determine how this class behaves and how it is experienced. No values are shown, because a value belongs to a product and not to a class. Two products of the same material can differ from each other by more than the material differs from its neighbours.
Typical application
Hardware. Fixtures. Back of house.
Evidence
No record in the research corpus tests human response to this material class. Its physical behaviour may be well understood and its properties may be entirely predictable from the attributes above. That is a different thing from evidence that a person responds to it, and this library does not convert one into the other. The absence is shown rather than filled.
Outcomes it could bear on
Outcomes whose material levers overlap this class. This is a structural relationship in the ontology, not a finding: it says the property is relevant to the outcome, not that this material produces it.
- Footing confidencevia Surface roughness Ra, Specular gloss
- Perceived cleanlinessvia Specular gloss, Cleanability
- Perceived warmth of a spacevia Thermal effusivity, Surface roughness Ra
- Autonomic downregulationvia Thermal effusivity
- Glare and visual comfortvia Specular gloss
- Recovery in care settingsvia Cleanability
- Sleep onset and continuityvia Thermal effusivity
- Tactile comfortvia Surface roughness Ra
- Thermal comfort at contactvia Thermal effusivity