“…Several Ti alloys were investigated in the 1960s and 70s such as Ti-5Al-2.5Sn (Kiefer & Schwartzberg, 1967;Thompson & Odegard, 1973) and Ti-6Al-4V (Reiman, 1971;Odegard & Thompson, 1974;Imam & Gilmore, 1979). Later, Mills' group intensively studied this phenomenon using Ti-6Al and Ti-6Al-2Sn-4Zr-2Mo (Suri et al, 1999;Neeraj et al, 2000;Deka et al, 2006). Among these experimental studies restricted to Ti alloys, the present authors found recently that all hexagonal close-packed metals and alloys show creep behavior at ambient temperature below their 0.2% proof stresses, but no cubic metals or alloys show it under the same condition .…”