The ferrite plays an important role in key component materials for nuclear power plant. The study was performed on ferritic alloys with various Cr content ranging from 10 to 38wt%. The Vickers-hardness and mechanical test results indicate that the high Cr content will cause a hardening and strengthening effect on the ferrite steel. Meanwhile, it can be concluded that the ferritic alloy suffers a reduction of toughness and a failure mode transition from ductile to brittle fracture with the increasing Cr content from the SEM fractography analysis.
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