Creep and Long-Term Strength of Metals

Creep and Creep Rupture of Metals is devoted to the fundamental description of the phenomenon of creep which occurs widely in high-temperature deformation of metals. Special attention is paid to the analysis of long-term strength, which characterizes the stress at which the metal does not fail after a predetermined time. The author details experimental and theoretical results obtained by Soviet and Russian scientists that are absent in currently available publications and demonstrates analytical methods and approaches to achieve long term strength in Metals.

Preface. Introduction. Creep under uniaxial tension. Long-term strength under uniaxial tension. Effect of the structure of metals on creep and long-term strength. Description of long-term strength under alternating stresses. Creep of metals under multiaxial stress state. Long-term strength under multiaxial stress state (kinetic approach). Long-term strength under multiaxial stress state (criteria approach). Creep and long-term strength of metals in corrosive environments. Probabilistic model of creep and long-term strength of metals in corrosive environments. Influence of the scale factor on creep and long-term strength of metals. Creep of rods and plates until fracture under pure bending. Buckling of cylindrical shells under external hydrostatic pressure. Upsetting of cylinders under creep conditions. Creep membranes in free and constricted conditions. The values of the material constants in models of steady and unsteady creep. Gas diffusion coefficients in solid metals at high temperatures. Literature. Index