An Investigation of Transient Creep by Means of Endochronic Viscoplasticity and Experiment

Abstract

Creep of metals has been investigated by means of the endochronic constitutive equation. This is a unified approach. Transient creep tests have been conducted on 304 stainless-steel specimens with carefully monitored precreep loading stage, either loaded at a prescribed constant strain-rate or at a constant stress-rate. It has been found that, for the same hold stress, the creep strain is larger for test with a constant stress-rate preloading than that for a constant strain-rate preloading. This is an effect of plasticity-creep interaction. In all cases, the initial creep strain rate is a continuation of the preloading strain rate. The theory satisfactorily describes the experimental results.