1 ABSTRACT ____ An experimental study was undertaken to establish the viscoelastic behavior of IM7/K3B composite in compression at elevated temperature. Creep compliance, strain recovery and the effects of physical aging on the time dependent response was measured for uniaxial loading at several isothermal conditions below the glass transition temperature (T g). The IM7/K3B composite is a graph...

Spinal segments show non-linear behaviour under axial compression. It is unclear to what extent this behaviour is attributable to the different components of the segment. In this study, we quantified the separate contributions of vertebral bodies and intervertebral discs to creep of a segment. Secondly, we investigated the contribution of bone and osteochondral endplate (endplates including car...

The paper presents the test results of beams made of chipboards, fibreboards, wood as per referenced items [1], [2], [3]. Adopting various rheological models, their behaviour in time under permanent load was described. The model testing of a box-section beam, with wooden flanges connected with continuous chipboard lacings, was described. It was found that the construction of beams made of unlim...

The development of grain-boundary cavitation in hot-pressed A1203 both during flexural creep and tress-free annealing in air has been studied. Creep damage accumulation in driven both by the applied stress, and by internal gas pressure in the cavities. The internal pressure results from gas trapped during hot pressing, and from gas-generating chemical reactions active during testing. At machine...

the creep/recovery behavior of wood flour-polypropylene was compared with medium density fiberboard (mdf) and particleboard. for this purpose, wood flour-polypropylene composites (with and without compatibilizer)were manufactured by using a laboratory twin-screw extruder. the mdf and particleboard panels were obtained from local producers. short term flexural creep tests at 30% of ultimate bend...

Original scientific paper Time-dependent deformations in soft rocks represent an important part of total deformations which occur after excavation of the tunnel opening. In the light of this, comprehensive laboratory uniaxial creep tests were performed on marl rock monolits. The testing used marl as a chosen representative rock samples of the group of soft rocks which exhibits creep behaviour. ...

This paper describes our experimental testing of linear viscoelastic creep behaviours in HamiMelon. Experimental data shows that HamiMelon has complex viscoelastic property which cannot be well described by the standard model. Consequently, this study develops a fractional derivative model to describe such complex viscoelastic creep behaviours of Hami Melon. The analytical creep function of the...

The relaxation by creep recovery of plasticized poly lvinyl chloride) (PVC) was tested in relation to applied stresses and working temperatures. The relaxation time increased with stress but decreased with temperature. From the temperature dependence of relaxation times, an energy of 0.21 eV was found to activate the creep recovery process. It is thought that creep recovery is effected by the c...

Determining the dynamic response of frozen soil is important for the study of the deformation, strength and stability of frozen soil under dynamic loading conditions for engineering design in cold regions. This paper discusses the recent progress in research on the dynamic response of frozen soil from the following three aspects: (1) influence of various testing conditions (confining pressure, ...