Many complex processes are taking place inside the solder alloy during the creep test. The deformation observed is a result of the simultaneous application of a load (the 4.8 kg weight) and the atomic ...

Landslides are occasional, rapid movements of a mass of earth or rock sliding ... making it heavy and liable to slide. Soil creep is a very slow movement, occurring on very gentle slopes because ...

DURING studies on creep in wood under various types of loading over periods of up to several years, it became apparent that changes in the moisture content of the wood while under load markedly ...