Measurement
Good Practice Guide
Measurement and
Analysis of
Creep in Plastics
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Measurement and Analysis of
Creep in Plastics
PE Tomlins
Centre for Materials Measurement and Technology
National Physical Laboratory
Abstract: This guide describes procedures for obtaining creep data from plastic testpieces
as a function of their temperature and age state, It also describes a method for analysing
these data in order to obtain parameters for a model which has the capacity to predict long-
term creep performance under low stresses over wide and continuous ranges of temperature
and time.