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Comparison of Accelerated Compressive Creep Behavior of Virgin HDPE Using Thermal and Energy Approaches

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This article compares two available approaches for accelerating the creep response of viscoelastic materials, such as High Density Polyethylene (HDPE), which is increasingly gaining attention for use in construction. Thermal acceleration methods to predict the tensile creep of polymers are already available. The Time-Temperature Superposition (TTS) phenomenon is the basis of several available methods, and an ASTM standard for tensile creep of geosynthetics is based on one of its derivatives, the Stepped Isothermal Method (SIM). In this article, both TTS and SIM have been adapted to study the compressive creep of virgin HDPE. An alternate approach, based on the equivalence of strain energy density (SED) between conventional constant-stress creep tests and strain-controlled stress-strain tests, is also adapted for accelerated compressive creep of HDPE. There is remarkably a good agreement among the creep behaviors obtained from conventional tests, TTS, SIM, and SED predictions for virgin HDPE.

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Funding of FHWA and The Empire Development Corporation is gratefully acknowledged. The authors thank Mahsa Rejaei, Carlos Cabrerra, Hsiao Wang, and Saumil Parikh who carried out the laboratory tests described herein under the authors' supervision.

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    Amir Bozorg-Haddad

  2. Civil Engineering Department, Polytechnic Institute of NYU, 6 Metrotech Ctr., Brooklyn, NY, 11201, USA

    Magued Iskander

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Bozorg-Haddad, A., Iskander, M. Comparison of Accelerated Compressive Creep Behavior of Virgin HDPE Using Thermal and Energy Approaches. J. of Materi Eng and Perform 20, 1219–1229 (2011). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11665-010-9743-9

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