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[Eric Green <egreen(--nospam--at)exponent.com>]

Sure, several of visco-elastic materials exhibit this behavior. Of course,
you will never see them used in a building or similiar structure.

Eric Green

-----Original Message-----
From: Roger Turk [mailto:73527.1356(--nospam--at)compuserve.com]
Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 8:42 PM
To: seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org
Subject: RE: 1/3 increase


Bill,

Are you saying that all materials *cannot* sustain higher loads when loaded 
quickly than they can when they are loaded slowly?

Please say what you mean.

A. Roger Turk, P.E.(Structural)
Tucson, Arizona

Bill Polhemus wrote:

. > The point is that we were all taught different things. We were all
taught
. > equally correctly, and equally wrong!

. > -----Original Message-----
. > From: Roger Turk [mailto:73527.1356(--nospam--at)compuserve.com]
. > Sent: Tuesday, October 30, 2001 7:26 PM
. > To: seaint(--nospam--at)seaint.org
. > Subject: 1/3 increase


. > Hmmm.

. > The reason for the 1/3 increase that I was taught (and found it logical 
. > then and still find it logical) is that *all* materials can sustain
higher
. > loads

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