The creep rupture strength of Inconel 601 alloy is given in the figure below. If the stress in a bolt is 80 MPa, and the temperature is 710 °C, will the bolt fail under creep after a service life of 10 000 hours?

When energy travels from one object to another it is said to have undergone heat transfer. Heat transfer is nothing but the transfer of thermal energy or internal energy from one thing to another, like e.g., when a vessel with water, kept on top of a bur…