The influence of the unloading rate on creep recovery of force transducers

This paper presents a study of the effect of unloading rate on the creep recovery of force transducers. The creep values increase with increase loading rate and this increasing phenomenon follows a Natural Logarithm function. The creep is highly dependent on the unloading rate from 0.5 mm/min to 5 mm/min while above 5 mm/min up to 20 mm/min the creep values are less dependent. An equation represents the time-loading/unloading rate effect on the creep/creep recovery of the force transducers, is introduced.