Demand for long-term reliability of electronic packaging has lead to a large number of studies on viscoplastic behavior of solder alloys. Various creep models for solder alloys have been proposed. They range from purely empirical to mechanism based models where dislocation motion and diffusion processes are taken into account. In this study, most commonly used creep models are compared with the...

Fitting data to classical creep rupture models can result in unrealistically high extrapolated long-term strength. As a consequence, the standard strength values for new steel grades have frequently needed downward correction after obtaining more long-term test data. The reasons for non-conservative extrapolation include the influence of short-term data, which are easiest to produce but tend to...

Normal temperature tensile and fatigue tests were adopted to test the mechanical performance and fatigue life of 2524 aluminum alloy under the three states of T3, artificial aging, and creep aging, and scanning electron microscope and transmission electron microscope were also used to observe the fatigue fracture morphology and aging precipitation features of the alloy under the above three sta...

P. Mohyla, R. Cep, Faculty of Mechanical Engineering, VSB-Technical University of Ostrava, Czech Republic; Z. Kubon, Materials and Metallurgical Re search, Lt d., Cz ech Re p.; I . S amardzic, Jo sip Ju raj Strossmayer Un iversity of Osijek Mechanical Engineering Faculty i n Slavonski Brod Croatia This work is focused on testing and evaluation of creep properties of P92 base material (BM) and w...

This paper presents the development of finite element software for creep deformation and damage analysis of weldment. The development and benchmark test of the software under plane stress, plane strain, axisymmetric, and 3 dimensional cases were reported in previous work [1]. This paper primarily consists of two parts: 1) the structure of the new FE software and the existing FE library applied ...

S U M M A R Y We use idealized subduction megathrust models to examine aseismic, frictional fault creep throughout the interseismic period. We consider rate-dependent and rateand state-dependent friction. When there is significant post-seismic creep surrounding locations of coseismic slip, the creep rates surrounding an asperity may be lower than the plate convergence rate late in the seismic c...