CREEP OF NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS
by Corrado Noseda
Graduate student at
Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Troy, NY 12180, U.S.A.
Department of Materials Science and Engineering
CONTENTS
REVIEW ON CREEP
What is creep?
Under what circumstances does creep occur?
Why is creep important?
What kind of tests do we carry out in order to assess the creep behavior of a material?
How does the creep test setup look like?
How are the results of creep tests represented?
What are the mechanisms that govern creep?
CREEP AND NANOCRYSTALLINE MATERIALS
What are the differences between creep of nanocrystalline materials and creep of materials with "conventional" grain sizes?
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