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An examination of creep failure criterion based on a strain threshold identified with a power law model

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The debate on whether the creep failure is induced by a stress threshold or a strain threshold is studied on several soils in this paper with a power law model and a normalization curve. The analysis indicates: (a) the creep failure is based on a critical strain, which is obtained with a normalization curve; (b) the time to the creep failure is very long for a low stress level or a low creep exponent; (c) for a given time to the creep failure, the strain threshold could be converted to a stress threshold, and variable stress thresholds will be calculated for different times given to the creep failure; (d) the creep behavior of various materials could be compared with the normalization curve and the power law model.

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The authors appreciate the funding provided by Texas Department of Transportation, USA (6784), Natural Science Foundation of China (51808292), and Natural Science Foundation of Fujian, China (2020J01212259).

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    Gang Bi & Zhaohua Li

  2. Department of Civil Engineering, Beijing University of Technology, Beijing, 100124, China

    Qiusheng Wang

  3. Department of Civil Engineering, Nanjing University of Science and Technology, Nanjing, Jiangsu, 210094, China

    Dongqi Jiang

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Bi, G., Li, Z., Wang, Q. et al. An examination of creep failure criterion based on a strain threshold identified with a power law model. Mech Time-Depend Mater 26, 195–209 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s11043-020-09483-9

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