Innovative Creep Analysis Methods: 101 Solved Problems

Provides analytical insight and solutions to commonly encountered problems involving creep deformation of materials. The book provides fundamental insight into the phenomenon of creep, methods for analyzing elasticity and plasticity problems, outlines the effects of atomic number and atomic weight on creep, as well as simulation techniques for elasto-plastic deformation in composites by flow-rule. Creep formulations and computational modeling techniques are provided throughout.

Each problem presented is meticulously solved with detailed explanations and step-by-step instructions, ensuring that readers grasp the underlying concepts. Problems featured include predicting principal creep stress in fibrous composites, obtaining creep strain rate in nickel, obtaining creep-rupture life in alloy S-590, finding nonlinear isochronous curves with Ramberg-Osgood Form, finding the strain formulation in a viscoelastic model, obtaining maximum creep stress in beam and elastic deflection, deformation of creep plastically, calculating minimum creep strain rate, and much more.

Provides analysis and solutions to commonly encountered problems involving creep deformation in a variety of different materials

Outlines the effects of atomic number and atomic weight on creep, simulation of elasto-plastic deformation in composites by flow rules, and the relationship between creep and viscosity

Demonstrates application of Legendre polynomials in creep analysis of composites