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Effect of Creep on Stability of Structural Elements
Creep, which represents the gradual increase of deformation over time,
is a typical phenomenon of viscoelastic materials. Its consideration is
necessary in the stability verification of compressed slender pieces in
ultimate limit state because these pieces can have their stiffness
modified as a
function of the rheology of the material. Mathematically, creep can be
characterized by models where the immediate elastic deformation is
increased
by viscous deformation, resulting in a temporal function. Although the
first postulations for the understanding of stability (or buckling) have
been
solved statically, the phenomenon penetrates the field of structural
dynamics since it involves the concept of the vibration of mechanical
systems.
In both cases, whether static or dynamic, it is necessary to consider
the total stiffness of the structural element as composed of two terms,
the
conventional stiffness portion and the geometric stiffness portion. In
this way, it is possible to include in the first plot a modulus of
elasticity variable
in time, that allows to follow the increase of the deformations,
according to the model adopted for their representation, even under
constant tension.
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