Ethylene Tetrafluoroethylene (ETFE) has been widely used in long-span buildings because of its light weight and high transparency. This paper studies the short and long term creep behaviour of ETFE foil. A series of short-term creep and recovery tests were performed, in which the residual strain was observed. A long-term creep test of the ETFE foil was also performed over 110 days. A viscoelastic-plastic model was then established to describe the short-term creep and recovery behaviour. The model contains a traditional multi-Kelvin part and an added steady-flow component to represent the viscoelastic and viscoplastic behaviour, respectively. The model successfully fit the data for three stresses and six temperatures. Additionally, time-temperature equivalency was adopted to predict the long-term creep behaviour of ETFE foil. Horizontal shifting factors were determined from the process of shifting creep-curves at six temperatures. The long-term creep behaviours at three temperatures were predicted. Finally, the long-term creep test showed that the short-term creep test at identical temperatures insufficiently predicted additional creep behaviour, and the long-term test verified the horizontal shifting factors derived from the time-temperature equivalency.

 Abstract  1. 서 론  2. 장단기 크리프 실험   2.1 단기 크리프와 회복 실험   2.2 장기 크리프 실험  3. 이론적 배경   3.1 점탄소성 모델   3.2 시간-온도 등가 가정  4. 결과 및 검토   4.1 단기 크리프 실험의 결과와 시뮬레이션   4.2 장기 크리프 거동 예측   4.3 장기 크리프 예측의 타당성  5. 결 론  References

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