Presentation on

“ Creep Test”

Rupendra S. Tanwar,
Assistant Professor, MED IPS Academy IES
Indore
Importance to study creep
Viscoelastic creep in solder joints under
thermal loading

Gas Turbine engines

Introduction

• Creep is a time-dependent process where a material under an applied stress exhibits a dimensional
change at high temperature.
• Material subjected to a CONSTANT LOAD at an elevated temperature (> 0.4-0.5 Tm) will creep- i.e.
EXHIBIT TIME DEPENDENT DEFORMATION
• It is a high temperature plastic deformation.
• High temperature progressive deformation of a material at constant stress is called creep.
Mechanism of Creep
Different Mechanisms are responsible for creep in different materials and under different loading and
temperature conditions. The mechanism include
• Stress-assisted vacancy diffusion
• Grain boundary diffusion
• Grain boundary sliding
• Dislocation Glide
• Dislocation creep
 Creep behavior at Constant load
Stage I – Transient creep or Primary creep- Strain rate
decreases with time

Stage II – Secondary or Steady state creep- Strain

hardening is balanced by softening processes.

Stage III – Tertiary creep – Creep rate accelerated,

formation of internal cracks, voids , necking etc.
Creep: stress and temperature effects
With Increasing stress or Temperature:-

• The instantaneous strain increases

• The steady state creep rate increases

• The time to rupture decreses

 Creep Testing Machine
• Usually tensile bar

• Static load applied

• Plot a curve creep strain with respect to

time

• Measure the creep strain for particular

material at constant load and temperature.
Creep Testing Methods
• Tensile creep testing
• Compression creep testing
• Flexural creep testing
- Three point bend testing
- Four point bend testing
• Stress rupture testing
• Small scale creep testing method
Tensile/ Compression creep Testing

• Direct load creep testing

• Lever arm creep testing
ASTM Standards for Creep Testing Methods

• ASTM E139-11 Standard test methods for conducting creep, creep rupture and stress rupture for
metallic materials

• C1337-10: Creep and creep rupture for continuous fiber reinforced advanced ceramics under
tensile loading at elevated temperature.
Basic requirements of a creep testing machines

• Load Frame
• Specimen Fixture
• High temperature furnace
• Extensometers
• Software for online monitoring and analaysis of data
Perform Creep test on VLab
• You can perform the creep on the Vlab
https://vlab.amrita.edu/?sub=77&brch=299&sim=1676&cnt=1
Thank You