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ASNT Level III- Visual & Optical Testing

My Level III Self Study Notes Reading 4 Section 4B

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Strain replication is especially useful for materials that do not exhibit creep<br />

void formation until late in their service life. As long as the strain calculations<br />

indicate a linear relationship between strain and time, the material is still said<br />

to be in the second stage region on the creep curve (see Fig. 62 and Table<br />

14). When the relationship deviates from linearity, the material has begun<br />

third stage or tertiary creep, where the strain rate can become unstable.<br />

Charlie Chong/ Fion Zhang

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