US Patent Issued to Southwest Forestry University on March 11 for "Device for creep test, system for tensile and compressive creep test and test method of the same" (Chinese Inventors)

ALEXANDRIA, Va., March 12 -- United States Patent no. 12,247,953, issued on March 11, was assigned to Southwest Forestry University (Kunming, China).

"Device for creep test, system for tensile and compressive creep test and test method of the same" was invented by Chunlei Dong (Kunming, China), Jie Wang (Kunming, China) and Hui Wan (Kunming, China).

According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "A device for a creep test and a test system and a method using the device are provided. The device for the creep test includes a device frame, a test piece clamp, a load loading mechanism and linear displacement sensors. A test piece is arranged in a middle of the test piece clamp. A first end of the test piece clamp i...