Abstract: The creep behavior of metallic materials is frequently studied using creep tests carried out under constant load and constant temperature conditions. This paper presents a general equation that precisely describes the ...

Abstract: This paper presents a general stress-strain equation that expresses stress explicitly in terms of strain in a single continuous curve. It allows various features such as linear-elastic range, upper yield peak, plastic ...

Abstract: This paper presents a continuous, multilinear expression that can be used as a general expansion-temperature equation. The equation can accommodate an unlimited number of connected linear portions. Therefore, it can be ...

Abstract: This paper presents a new mathematical relationship for representing the stress-strain behavior of structural steel at elevated temperatures. The relationship is constructed by fitting two versatile, continuous equations ...

Abstract: A general numerical procedure to analyze the behavior of load-bearing members under elevated temperature conditions has been developed by the writers. In this paper, the results obtained by using the numerical procedure ...

Abstract: This paper presents a general numerical method to calculate the nonlinear behavior of load-bearing members under elevated temperature conditions. The method, although similar in concept to earlier approaches, differs with ...