Custom Designed/Built Deadweight Creep Apparatus

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employing a load train manufactured from oxide or carbide ceramics, a 1650ºC controlled-atmosphere furnace that incorporates a frictionless silicon-oil seal, high precision (in both stress and strain) creep experiments in controlled ƒO2 environments from well below the quartz-iron-fayalite (QIF) buffer to pure oxygen are possible. Stress precision has been emphasized in four-point flexural creep (transient and steady-state) experiments on mantle partial melts [Cooper, 1990].

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