Abstract: The creep performance of plastics is one of the main criteria for a variety of applications with strict dimensional stability needs, including electrical/electronic parts and various automotive applications. However obtaining or generating accurate creep data is very difficult for both resin suppliers and product designers because the creep property is time dependent, which means it t...

In this study, the non-linear creep behaviour of a thick-walled cylinder made of stainless steel 316 is investigated using a semi-analytical method. The thick-walled cylinder is under a uniform internal pressure and a non-axisymmetric thermal field as a function of the radial and circumferential coordinates. For the high temperature and stress levels, creep phenomena play a major role in stress...

With the long influence of high temperature and stress, high temperature & high pressure steam pipeline of a thermal power plant will bring about creep damage or even tube explosion, which heavily threaten its safe operation. Therefore, the timely and accurate measurement of the pipeline creep is vital to the correct estimation of pipeline residual life and the prevention of various security ac...

This study investigates the time-dependent long-term creep strain in a composite cylinder made of glass/vinylester with a unidirectional ply. The cylinder is subjected to an internal pressure and the boundary condition is free–free and acts as thermal insulation. The classical lamination theory (CLT) is used to derive the governing equations as a second-order equation to determine the radial, c...

In the current study the nonlinear viscoelastic response of a polymer matrix composite under multiple creep/creep-recovery loading is presented. The influence of creep/creep-recovery multiple step loading in the overall strain response both viscoelastic and viscoplastic is examined and an attempt for modeling this behaviour is attempted. An increase in the parameters of nonlinearity is observed...

This chapter constitutes an introduction to creep and to the creep response of Aluminium and its alloys. Its major goals are: to provide basic information on creep and its mechanisms to give a description of the more extensively used mathematical relations among creep variables (time, stress and temperature) to illustrate the creep response of pure Aluminium and of Al-Mg alloys to provide a syn...

In this study, a large number of creep tests were carried out to study the effect of stress level and testing temperature on the creep behavior of 63 Sn/37Pb solder in a systematic manner. Based on the dislocation controlled creep mechanism and Gibbs’ free-energy theory, a new creep constitutive model was proposed. The model was found to describe accurately the creep flow of the solder and to b...

From decades Creep has been known and studied for textile materials. In comparison, a newly observed phenomenon of inverse creep seems not to have received much attention. A new instrument has been fabricated to measure creep and inverse creep in textile materials particularly yarns. Creep and Inverse creep measurements of few of the textile yarns like nylon multifilament yarn, Polyester multif...