Research Article

Investigation of Viscoelastic-Creep and Mechanical-Hysteresis Behaviors of Hydrostatically Stressed Crystal Using the Phase Field Crystal Method

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Viscoelastic-creep behaviors, , under different values of at conditions , , and where (-axis) is the time variable and (-axis) is the strain response at time . The results demonstrate the capability of the PCD equation to control the relaxation time, , through .