This discrepancy in results is believed to be a consequence of the fact that ceramics tend to creep more readily in tension than in compression leading to a shift in the neutral plane for stress and strain in flexural specimens which results in extended primary creep.
Theories of creep in ceramics.
Metals and ceramics exhibit diffusion creep with n 1 at low stresses and n 3 at high stresses.
Mathematical models that have been proposed for creep in ceramics are described.
Emphasis is on models involving grain boundary motion sliding or flow.
In lifshitz models the crystalline grains elongate with strain.
The elongation results from diffusion slip or solution and precipitation.
We consider electric creep to be a time dependent process with an initial condition lying on the d electric displacement versus e electric field hysteresis loop.
2 percussion theory according to percussion theory creep is developed due to the impact of wheels at the rail end ahead of a joint.
For the case of lamellae parallel to the stress axis ϕ 0 redistribution of stress must occur in the duplex structure because the creep resistance of the matrix tial is different from that of the reinforcement ti 3 al.
In oxide ceramics consideration of diffusion creep involving ambipolar diffusion suggests that creep will be controlled by the slower moving species diffusing along its faster path 6 10.
Viscosity and in turn creep rate will depend on the composition of the glassy phase and its temperature.
Mathematical models that have been proposed for creep in ceramics are described.
It is demonstrated that there are two important differences in the creep behaviour of ceramics.
In lifshitz models the crystalline grains elongate with strain.
In ceramics with high glass contents creep is controlled by the viscous flow of glass.
Theories of creep in ceramics.
Referring to the creep models proposed for composite materials the creep model for the dual phase lamellar micro structure has been established 28 29.
Creep both in metals and ceramics in the steady state is diffusion controlled and the homologue temperature of t t m regarding the diffusion coefficient also applies to both materials.
Emphasis is on models involving grain boundary motion sliding or flow.
The elongation results from diffusion slip or solution and precipitation.