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The 15 pages that link to Creep, each with the reason it gives.

• Grain boundaryRelated: Boundary sliding and diffusion can contribute to creep in fine-grained materials.

• DislocationRelated: Dislocation glide and climb contribute to creep in crystalline materials.

• Fracture mechanicsCompared with: Creep can cause failure without the cyclic loading central to fatigue crack growth.

• HysteresisCompared with: Creep records elapsed time under load, whereas hysteresis concerns dependence on input history.

• Yield strengthCompared with: A material can deform progressively below its short-term yield strength.

• Tensile strengthCompared with: Long-term tensile loading can produce failure even when stress remains below short-term strength.

• FatigueCompared with: Creep accumulates under sustained loading, unlike fatigue’s defining repeated-load damage.

• PlasticityCompared with: Creep can produce permanent deformation below short-term yield stress, especially at high temperatures.

• Grain growthRelated: Grain size affects which creep mechanisms dominate in high-temperature materials.

• Thermal crackingCompared with: Creep can relax thermal stress, reducing cracking risk or changing where damage accumulates.

• BrittlenessCompared with: Creep involves gradual deformation rather than brittleness’s limited-deformation fracture.

• Turbine bladeRelated: Hot turbine blades can elongate under centrifugal stress during long service.

• Rheology of the mantleNarrower topic: The general phenomenon of which mantle flow is the planetary-scale case.

• IntermetallicRelated: Creep resistance is a key measure of whether an intermetallic can serve in hot components.

• Yield (materials science)Related: At high temperatures, yielding and long-term creep can both govern permanent deformation.