This paper presents a numerical strategy for the characterisation of the creep behaviourudmodel of the copper alloy, which is widely used in aircraft applications under creepudconditions. The high possibility of the material failing, while operating under load at anudelevated temperature, has led to the important study of the creep lifetime predictionudanalysis, by presenting the Norton’s rule based on the Power-law model to describe theudsecondary creep behaviour of the material. In order to demonstrate the nature of the creepudformulation, the SOL 400 modules from MSC Nastran 2014 are implemented in order toudconduct the uniaxial tensile test in 2000 N of applied load and 473 K of temperatureudcondition. As a result, the exponential curve is formed from the relationship of the creepudstrain rate and stress, with a 5.1% error based on the value of the stress exponent, n,udbetween the simulation and experimental results and this was still be acceptable becauseudit was relatively small due to the formulation in the simulation. Consequently, a relationudof the creep rate curve can then be plotted with respect to the load steps and the variationudpatterns due to the stress factor also being discussed. Therefore, the results show a goodudagreement, which indicates the capability of this model to give an accurate and preciseudestimation of the secondary creep behaviour of the materials.ud
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