Physical properties of F82H for fusion blanket design

The material properties, focusing on the properties used for design analysis were re-assessed and newly investigated for various heats of reduced activation ferritic/martensitic steel, F82H. Moreover, irradiation effects on those properties were studied in this work. Most of physical properties of unirradiated F82H are insensitive to the heat-to-heat variation, and more preferable to Grade 91 specified in the ASME code. Therefore numerical analysis using data of Grade 91 can be a conservative evaluation for F82H. The change in these properties of F82H is less than 6%. Therefore the irradiation effects on thermal stress and variation of electromagnetic force in plasma disruption could be quite small in the irradiation conditions studied. (C) 2013 Elsevier B.V. All rights reserved.