Study of the creep behaviour of stitched woven composites

An experimental and theoretical study of the tensile creep behaviour of woven fibre composites stitched with cotton, and carbon threads, along or perpendicular to the loading direction with different densities is presented. The results of creep tests, conducted at ambient temperature and various elevated temperatures with low to high stress levels are reported.

A social ecological model of ICT cooption : surveillance creep in the information age

A model for ICT cooption is introduced using the example of ’surveillance creep’ which is the phenomenon of increasing dataveillance as the result of the introduction of seemingly benign, useful and convenient technological artefacts. The model identifies and discusses five main components of ICT artefact development and deployment: design, properties, affordances, appropriation and agent interests and locates them in a complex interrelated social ecology. The model provides a way to empirically examine how and why technology favours particular social or organisational outcomes.