IUTAM Symposium on Creep in Structures: Proceedings of the IUTAM Symposium held in Nagoya, Japan, 3–7 April 2000

Front Matter....Pages i-xxii
An Opening Address....Pages 1-2
Micromechanism-Quantification for Creep Constitutive Equations....Pages 3-16
Creep of γ-TiAl Based Alloys — Experiments and Computational Modeling....Pages 17-30
Anisotropic Creep of Single Crystal Superalloys....Pages 31-40
A Rate Dependent Formulation for Void Growth in Single Crystal Materials....Pages 41-50
Microstructural Modeling of Creep Fracture in Polycrystalline Materials....Pages 51-64
Creep Crack Growth: From Discrete to Continuum Damage Modeling....Pages 65-74
Prediction of Inner Cracking Behavior in Heat-Resistant Steel under Creep-Fatigue Condition by Means of Three-Dimensional Numerical Simulation....Pages 75-84
Creep of Welded Structures....Pages 85-94
Two Parameter Characterisation of Crack Tip Fields under Creep Conditions....Pages 95-104
Cavity Growth Induced by Electric Current and Stress in LSI Conductor....Pages 105-114
Dislocation Density Simulations for Bulk Single Crystal Growth Process Using Dislocation Kinetics Model....Pages 115-124
Multiaxial Creep Fatigue under Anisothermal Conditions....Pages 125-130
Constitutive Modeling of Viscoplastic Damage in Solder Material....Pages 131-140
Consideration of Stress State Influences in the Material Modelling of Creep and Damage....Pages 141-150
Strain, Stress and Damage Fields in Damaged and Cracked Solids....Pages 151-163
Effects of Damage on the Asymptotic Fields of a Mode I Creep Crack in Steady-State Growth....Pages 165-174
Computational Continuum Damaged Mechanics: Its use in the Prediction of Creep in Structures — Past, Present and Future....Pages 175-188
Cracking of Creeping Structures Described by Means of CDM....Pages 189-196
A Coupled Formulation for Thermo-Viscoplasticity at Finite Strains: Application to Hot Metal Forming....Pages 197-206
Thick Axisymmetric Plate Subjected to Thermo-Mechanical Damage....Pages 207-216
Creep in Shotcrete Tunnel Shells....Pages 217-229
Rupture Life Time Prediction and Deformation Mechanisms during Creep of Single-Crystal Nickel-Base Superalloys....Pages 231-240
Creep Damage Assessment and Void Formation in Engineering Materials....Pages 241-256
Creep Damage Accumulation and Failure in Narrow Regions of Steel Welds....Pages 257-266
Long-Term Creep Life Prediction Based on Understanding of Creep Deformation Behavior of Ferritic Heat Resistant Steels....Pages 267-276
Near-Threshold Fatigue Crack Growth in SUS304 Steel at Elevated Temperatures....Pages 277-286
Approximate Viscoplastic Notch Analysis....Pages 287-296
The Reference Stress Method in Creep Design....Pages 297-309
Study on Creep-Fatigue Life Prediction Methods Based on Long-Term Creep- Fatigue Tests for Austenitic Stainless Steel....Pages 311-320
Developments in Creep Fracture Assessments within the R5 Procedure....Pages 321-330
On Global Approaches to Some Problems Involving Plasticity and Viscosity Effects....Pages 331-340
On the Simulation of Large Viscoplastic Structures under Anisothermal Cyclic Loadings....Pages 341-350
Description of Inelastic Behavior of Perforated Plates Based on Effective Stress Concept....Pages 351-360
The Overstress Model Applied to Normal and Pathological Behavior of Some Engineering Alloys....Pages 361-373
Creep Strain Uncertainties Associated with Testpiece Extensometer Ridges: Their Identification and Reduction....Pages 375-390
Equivalence of Back Stress during Plastic and Creep Deformation....Pages 391-400
Assessment of the Multiaxial Creep Data Based on the Isochronous Creep Surface Concept....Pages 401-410
Biaxial and Triaxial Creep Testing of Type 304 Stainless Steel at 923 K....Pages 411-418
Uniaxial/Multiaxial Creep-Ratchetting of Several Types of Steels and Its Constitutive Modelling....Pages 419-428
Temperature Measurement and Lifetime Prediction of a High-Pressure Turbine Rotor....Pages 429-438
Effects of Matrix Creep on Fiber Stress Profiles in Unidirectional Composites: Mesoscopic Analysis Based on a Variational Method....Pages 439-452
Micromechanics Based Creep Damage Analysis of Unidirectional Metal Matrix Composites....Pages 453-462
Micromechanical Models for Creep in the Consolidation of Composites....Pages 463-468
Off-Axis Creep Behavior of Unidirectional Polymer Matrix Composites at High Temperature....Pages 469-478
Creep of Ice and Microstructural Changes under Confining Pressure....Pages 479-488
Numerical and Experimental Creep Bending Behavior of Polyethylene Beams....Pages 489-498
A Numerical Elastic-Viscoplastic Collapse Analysis of Circular Cylindrical Shells under Axial Compression....Pages 499-508
Time-Dependence of Buckling Load for a Viscoelastic Plate under Creep Condition....Pages 509-518
Back Matter....Pages 519-522