Plastic Creep Constraint in Nylon Instrument Strings.

ABSTRACT: A number of rectified nylon harp strings, having the same nominal diameter, were subjected to different sequences of applied stress steps. Each string was tested continuously for several weeks to allow sufficient time for the stretching responses to be clearly observed. Qualitatively, much of the observed behaviour was in accordance with established expectations. However, the quantitative data gathered here are believed to be novel, and revealed some surprises. The strings displayed a combination of elastic stretching, fully recoverable viscoelastic stretching, and apparently non-recoverable plastic stretching. The elastic and recoverable viscoelastic stretching behaviour was quite straightforward, but the plastic creep behaviour was more complicated, with a number of the strings displayin

SUBMITTER: Lynch-Aird N 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11766866 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature