We simulate the glide motion of an assembly of interacting dislocations under the action of an external shear stress and show that the associated plastic creep relaxation follows Andrade's law. Our results indicate that Andrade creep in plastically deforming crystals involves the correlated motion of dislocation structures near a dynamic transition separating a flowing from a jammed phase. Simu...

Stimulated by the excessive deflections and collapse of the KB Bridge of world-rercord span, the deflection histories of 56 similar bridges, most of them excessive, have been collected by RILEM TC-MDC. They amount to a wake-up call: The standard creep recommendations of engineering societies have been misleading, and thus their revision is imperative. They also confirm a simple feature: The mul...

A steady-state creep law for rocksalt, describing the two parallel mechanisms of dislocation creep and fluid-enhanced grain-boundary diffusion creep, has been used in numerical models of salt diapirism, to study the effective viscosity of rocksalt. Typical models included a 3-km-thick sedimentary layer on top of 1 km of rocksalt. The grain size of the salt has been varied between 0.5 and 3 cm a...

The rounding of the charge density wave depinning transition by thermal noise is examined. Hops by localized modes over small barriers trigger “avalanches”, resulting in a creep velocity much larger than that expected from comparing thermal energies with typical barriers. For a field equal to the T = 0 depinning field, the creep velocity is predicted to have a power-law dependence on the temper...

The stress analysis of pressurized circumferential pipe weldments under steady state creep is considered. The creep response of the material is governed by Norton’s law. Numerical and analytical solutions are obtained by means of perturbation method, the unperturbed solution corresponds to the stress field in a homogeneous pipe. The correction terms are treated as stresses defined with the help...

There seems to be a consensus among physicists that there is a connection between information processing and thermodynamics. In particular, Landauer’s Principle (LP) is widely assumed as part of the foundation of information theoretic/computational reasoning in diverse areas of physics including cosmology. It is also often appealed to in discussions about Maxwell’s demon and the status of the S...

A constitutive model is developed within the framework of Perzyna’s viscoplasticity for predicting the stress-strain-time behaviour of soft porous rocks. The model is based on the hyperelasticity and multisurface viscoplasticity with hardening. A time-stepping algorithm is presented for integrating the creep sensitive law. An example of application to one-dimensional consolidation is presented....

Both polycrystalline (PC) and directionally-solidified (DS) Ni-base superalloys are commonly applied as turbine materials to primarily withstand creep conditions manifested in either marine-, airor land-based gas turbines components. The thrust for increased efficiency of these systems, however, translates into the need for these materials to exhibit considerable strength and temperature resist...

The time-independent and time-dependent mechanical behavior of electrochemically lithiated silicon was studied with nanoindentation. As indentation was performed with continuous stiffness measurements during loading and load-hold, new insight into the deformation behavior of lithiated silicon is furnished. Supporting other research, Young's modulus and the hardness of lithiated silicon are foun...