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Historical Survey of the Development of Creep Mechanics from its Beginnings in the Last Century to 1970

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Creep in Structures

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During the 19th century observations of creep in engineering structures must have been made, but its real nature was discovered only in the early 20th century by E.N.da Costa Andrade. Significant metallic creep in power plant machinery, metallurgical fans etc was recognized during World War I and between this period and World War II. This started the development of Creep Mechanics as part of General Applied Mechanics. World War II gave a strong impetus to the further development (jet engines, rockets etc). In the 1950’s Creep Mechanics was fully developed and Creep Rupture Mechanics in its beginnings. Both experimental and theoretical points of view were taken into account. These shall here be reviewed up till about 1970, covering contributions from most industrial countries. Naturally this short review must be given by examples only. Many important contributions have to be left out or given in the references only.

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  1. Royal Institute of Technology, Torstensonsvagen 7D, S-18264, Stockholm, Djursholm, Sweden

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Odqvist, F.K.G. (1981). Historical Survey of the Development of Creep Mechanics from its Beginnings in the Last Century to 1970. In: Ponter, A.R.S., Hayhurst, D.R. (eds) Creep in Structures. International Union of Theoretical and Applied Mechanics. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-81598-0_1

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