“…This phenomenon known for about 40 years as "dwell-effect" can be observed on several titanium alloys, in particular on Ti6242. Different parameters seem to affect the dwell-effect and have been considered in earlier studies: microstructure [2], dwell time [3], temperature [4], hydrogen content [5,6], stress redistribution [7,8], sample size [9], "cold creep" (plastic strain accumulation under static load at room temperature) [10,11], biaxial and triaxial stress fields [12,13]. None of these studies has reached a complete understanding of the phenomenon and some of them are even contradictory.…”