Accelerated creep, primarily through vertical displacement, has been occurring along 15 en-echelon faults belonging to a km-long and 1.5 km-wide, N-S-trending dilational jog of the active West Valley Fault (or Marikina Fault), on southeastern part Metro Manila, Philippines. The much-larger-than-known tectonic slip rates had only reliable evidence in support excessive groundwater withdrawal as t...

One of the yet unresolved engineering problems is forecasting the creep lives of weldment in a pragmatic way with sufficient accuracy. There are number of obstacles to circumvent including: complex material behavior, lack of accurate knowledge about the creep material behavior specially about the heat affected zones (HAZ),accurate and multi-axial creep damage models, etc. In general, creep life...

In order to better study the creep deformation characteristics of rock under different stresses, generalized Burgers model was used as basic after analyzing and its relationship with stress strain, application scope verified. Based on damage mechanics theory, a viscoplastic body considering aging established, which connected in series. A new nonlinear constitutive obtained, extended three dimen...

Alec Feinberg is senior principal reliability engineer at M/A-COM. He received his Ph.D. in Physics from Northeastern University. He has 17 years of reliability physics experience. He previously worked at TASC and AT&T Bell Laboratories. Dr. Feinberg has actively published in the area of reliability physics since 1986 and at the IEST on a wide variety of topics from accelerated reliability grow...

Destructive testing of creep exposed components is a powerful tool for evaluation of remaining lifetime of high temperature pipe systems. The most common destructive evaluation method used today is uniaxial creep testing. Uniaxial creep tests can produce accurate creep curves but the test method has some drawbacks such as costliness and long testing times. It also demands large sample material ...

During the recent decades, the design and construction of underground spaces into rock salt have been particularly regarded for storing petroleum fluids, natural gas, and compressed air energy, and also for disposing nuclear and chemical wastes. The rock salt hosting such spaces will be subjected to various types of monotonic/cyclic, short-term/long-term stresses during the construction and/or ...

The tensile creep and creep-recovery behavior of a unidirectional Sic-fiher/Si,N,-matrix composite was investigated at 1200°C in air. A primary objective of the study was to determine how various sustained and cyclic creep loading histories would influence the creep rate, accumulated creep strain, and the amount of strain recovered upon specimen unloading. The key results obtained from the inve...