Creep strength is a term of the materials technology. It gives information over the life span of a material. If a metallic material is exposed to a certain temperature and a constant course for a certain time, then it begins to creep. If the material is exposed to this load to for a long time, then tear forms and it can to the break of the material come.

Over so-called creep diagrams one receives information, which material can be exposed like for a long time to which course at certain temperature.

Technical examples

In the aircraft construction is good it to know, how long the material of a turbine holds at the most, until tears form.

Pipings with hot liquids must be exchanged regularly, the life span depend on the pressure on the inside and the temperature of the liquid.

In the reactor core of nuclear power stations it comes to macroscopically not visible creeping of the steel of the reactor coverings, which leads to cracking.

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