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As temperature decreases a ductile material can become brittle - ductile-to-brittle transition

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Yes ,at low temperature ductile material behaves like brittle.

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Yes,as temperature decreases a ductile material can become brittle.

In metals ductile to brittle transition temperature is around 0.1 to 0.2 Tm(melting point temperature) and in ceramics ductile to brittle transition temperature is around 0.5 to 0.7 Tm(melting point temperature) .

We can easily see that from graph between fracture toughness and temperature.In the graph when temperature is low then the ductile material is behaving like brittle material.But when temperature is above a particular value then material behaves like ductile.

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