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When the belt moves over the pulley to transmit power, the tension in the tight side is more than than the
tension in slack side. As the belt material is elastic, it elongates more on tight side than on slack side,
resulting in unequal stretching on two sides of the drive.

Therefore, the length of the belt received by the driving pulley is more than the length that moves of the
driving pulley. Hence, belt must creep back slightly relative to driving pulley rim. On the other hand, the
length of the belt received by the driven pulley is less than the length that moves of the driven pulley.
Hence, the belt must creep forward slightly relative to driven pulley rim.

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This motion of belt relative to driving and driven pulley due to unequal stretching of the two sides of the
drive is known as creep. The effect of creep back on the driving pulley is to slow down the speed of the belt
with respect to driving pulley and the effect of creep forward on the driven pulley is to slow down the
speed of driven pulley. Thus the net effect of creep is to reduce the speed ratio than the theoretical
expected.

Difference between slip and creep.

Creep is due to the elastic property of belt whereas, the conventional slip is due to insufficient frictional
grip between the belt and pulley. However, the effect of the creep as well as slip is to reduce the speed
ratio, and hence power transmission.

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