“…Such data can also be used to generate creep consti-tutive laws for welded materials 14,16,17 . The main small specimen and testing types that are used to obtain high temperature tensile and creep properties include the conventional sub-sized uniaxial specimens 18 and several specialized miniature specimen test types including: the impression creep test [19][20][21] , the small punch tensile, creep and fracture tests [22][23][24][25][26] , the small ring creep test [27][28][29] , the small tensile two bar creep test 30 , and the more recent miniature thin-plate tensile test 12,13,31 . One of the unique advantages that small punch creep test has is the very small thickness (~0.5 mm), however, there is no universally accepted conversion techniques available for data interpretation 32,33 .…”