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A GENERAL treatment of the problem of creep under intermittent, as distinct from alternating, stress has already been given1 and applied to the creep of lead. The behaviour of copper conductors is of particular interest2 because of the stress conditions to which they are subjected in alternators, and because of the important consequences of their failure. Experiments on high-conductivity copper have now been completed with the view of testing in more detail certain deductions which followed from the original analysis.
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Kennedy, A. J., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 213, 492 (1952).
Benson, N. D., McKeown, J., and Mends, D. N., J. Inst. Met., 80, 131 (1951).
Andrade, E. N. da C., Proc. Roy. Soc., A, 84, 1 (1910).
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KENNEDY, A. Creep of Copper under Stress Pulses. Nature 171, 927–928 (1953). https://doi.org/10.1038/171927b0
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