12 6 Phenomenological Creep Failure Models 6.1 Creep and Creep Failure 6.2 Steady‐State Creep 6.3 Commonly Used Creep Experiments and Strength Tests 6.4 Modeling Very Long‐Term Creep Rupture from Short‐Term Tests 6.5 High‐Temperature Low‐Cycle Fatigue (HT‐LCF) and Dwell Fatigue 6.6 Crucial Tests on Rate Sensitivity of High‐Temperature Strength 6.7 Rational Approach Inspired by the Principle of “Hindsight 20/20” References
13 7 High‐Temperature Grain‐Boundary Embrittlement and Creep 7.1 Fracture and Material Failure 7.2 Grain Size Effects on Strength 7.3 Grain‐Boundary Shearing (gbs) Induced Crack Initiation References
14 8 Microstructure and Crack‐Enhanced Elasto – Delayed‐Elastic – Viscous Models 8.1 Physics‐Based Holistic Model Approach 8.2 Kinetics of Microcracking and Structural Damage 8.3 Microcrack‐Enhanced EDEV Model 8.4 EDEV‐Based Algorithm for Constant Strain Rate, Encompassing Cracking 8.5 Constant Stress, Crack‐Enhanced Creep: EDEV Predictions 8.6 Cyclic Fatigue 8.7 Crack Healing or Closure of w‐Type Voids Generating r‐Type Cavities References
15 9 Stress Relaxation at High Temperatures 9.1 The Role of Stress Relaxation Tests at High Temperatures 9.2 Constitutive Equations without Effect of Grain Size 9.3 Temperature and Grain‐Size Effects on SR 9.4 Forecasting Grain‐Size Effects on SR in Pure Ice Based on EDEV Equation 9.5 High‐Temperature Forming, Delayed Spring‐Back, and Grain‐Size Effects on SR in Metals References
16 10 Ice Age and Intraglacial Depression and Postglacial Rebound of Earth's Crust 10.1 Tectonic Plates, Lake Ice, and High‐Temperature Materials: What Is the Connection? 10.2 On Glaciers and Oceanic Ice Cover: Past and Present 10.3 Dow's Lake Studies 10.4 Elasto–Delayed‐Elastic (EDE) Theory for Plates References
17 11 Plate Tectonics and Polar Sea Ice 11.1 Retrospective Introduction 11.2 Earth and Plate Tectonics 11.3 Scale of Observations 11.4 Vertical Temperature Profiles of Earth and Ice Sheet 11.5 Time–Temperature Shift Function 11.6 Nonlinear, Grain‐Size‐Dependent Delayed Elasticity (Anelasticity) of Mantle 11.7 Stress Field of Earth's Crust 11.8 Koyna and Warna Dams in India and Reservoir‐Triggered Seismicity (RTS) 11.9 Movement of Tectonic Plates, Indentation, and Fracture 11.10 Looking Forward References
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