On completion of this tutorial package, you should:
- Have a sound understanding of the mechanisms of creep
- Know about stress exponents and activation energies and how to obtain them from experimental data
- Be familiar with a particular set-up for experimental study of the creep characteristics of a metal, available in wire form
- Begin to understand how materials can be designed to minimise creep
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