Creep in Structures

Historical Survey of the Development of Creep Mechanics from its Beginnings in the Last Century to 1970.- Advances in Creep Mechanics.- Mechanical Description of Viscoplastic and Damage Behaviour Under Variable Temperature in Presence of Microstructural Instabilities.- The ?0 Approach to Creep and Fracture of Metals and Alloys.- A Critical Examination of Steady State Creep.- On Constitutive Relations and Failure Criteria of an Austenitic Steel Under Cyclic Loading at Elevated Temperature.- The Creep of Moderately Thick Shells of Revolution Under Axisymmetrical Load.- Practical Aspects of Model Creep Work.- Review of Session I.- Some Observations on Reference Stresses, Skeletal Points, Limit Loads and Finite Elements.- Representation of Constitutive Equations in Creep Mechanics of Isotropic and Anisotropic Materials.- The Continuous Field of Damage and its Influence on the Creep Process in Concrete Under Tensile Loading.- Tensor Functions Approach to Creep Laws after Prestrain.- Generalised Structural Models in Creep Mechanics.- Bounding Structural Deformation due to Combined Creep and Plasticity.- On the Creep Modified Shakedown Limit.- High Temperature Problems Associated with the Design of the Commercial Fast Reactor.- Review of Session II.- Creep Buckling - A General View of the Phenomena.- The Creep Buckling of Shells.- Design Limits for Creep Buckling of Structural Components.- Review of Session III.- Dilatational Creep of Rock-like Solids.- Deformation Kinetics of Concrete.- Creep Fracture by Void Growth.- Creep Deformation and Rupture Under Non-Proportional Loading.- Creep Fracture in Nimonic 80A under Triaxial Tensile Stressing.- A Continuum Theory of Creep and Creep Damage.- Mechanisms for the Growth of Intergranular Creep Cavities.- Creep Crack Propagation inTerms of Continuous Damage Mechanics.- Review of Session IV.- Creep-Fatigue Failure in High Temperature Alloys.- The Extension of a Macroscopic Crack at Elevated Temperature by the Growth and Coalescence of Microvoids.- Crack Growth Under Conditions of Creep and Damage.- Creep Crack Growth and Cavitation Damage.- Finite Element Analysis and Experimental Investi-gation on Creep Crack Propagation.- Creep Crack Growth.- History of Loading Effects on Creep Crack Growth in 1/2% Cr, 1/2% Mo, 1/4% V Steel.....- Application of Non-Linear Elastic Fracture Mechanics to Aged Type 316L Stainless Steel.- Creep Recovery and Hardening Effects on the Stress Field Near a Crack Tip Under Variable Loads.- An Assessment of Techniques of Analysis of Creep Crack-Growth Test-Record by J-Integral.- Review of Session V.