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  2. Creep (deformation) - Wikipedia

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    Fortunately, creep doesn't occur suddenly in brittle materials as it does under tension and other forms of deformation, and it is an advantage for designers. Over time, creep strain develops in a material exposed to stress at the temperature of the application, and it depends on the duration of the exposure.

  3. Grain boundary sliding - Wikipedia

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    Grain boundary sliding (GBS) is a material deformation mechanism where grains slide against each other. This occurs in polycrystalline material under external stress at high homologous temperature (above ~0.4 [1]) and low strain rate and is intertwined with creep. Homologous temperature describes the operating temperature relative to the ...

  4. Ratcheting - Wikipedia

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    In continuum mechanics, ratcheting, or ratchetting, also known as cyclic creep, is a behavior in which plastic deformation accumulates due to cyclic mechanical or thermal stress. [ 1 ] [ 2 ]

  5. Business ethics - Wikipedia

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    Business ethics operates on the premise, for example, that the ethical operation of a private business is possible—those who dispute that premise, such as libertarian socialists (who contend that "business ethics" is an oxymoron) do so by definition outside of the domain of business ethics proper.

  6. Viscoelasticity - Wikipedia

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    If the material exhibits a non-linear response to the strain rate, it is categorized as non-Newtonian fluid. There is also an interesting case where the viscosity decreases as the shear/strain rate remains constant. A material which exhibits this type of behavior is known as thixotropic.

  7. Fracture in polymers - Wikipedia

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    Where σ f is the fatigue stress, σ m is mean stress, σ a is the amplitude stress and σ t is the tensile stress of the sample being tested. In certain applications of polymers, materials will experience cyclic loading at different stress levels. Figure 3 gives an S-N diagram of cumulative cycles being applied at different stress amplitudes.

  8. Deformation mechanism - Wikipedia

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    Nabarro-Herring creep has a weak stress dependence. Coble creep, or grain-boundary diffusion, is the diffusion of vacancies occurs along grain-boundaries to elongate the grains along the stress axis. Coble creep has a stronger grain-size dependence than Nabarro–Herring creep, and occurs at lower temperatures while remaining temperature dependent.

  9. Deformation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    For some materials, e.g. elastomers and polymers, subjected to large deformations, the engineering definition of strain is not applicable, e.g. typical engineering strains greater than 1%, [1] thus other more complex definitions of strain are required, such as stretch, logarithmic strain, Green strain, and Almansi strain.