>>13273383That is not true at all. You can get creep without undergoing cyclic loading, as long as you are at very high temperatures
>>13271710Depends how slow you go. Diffusion/recrystalization are Arrhenius processes, and technically you could bend slowly enough at room temperature and the crystal structure could re-equilibrate (a stressed crystal structure is NOT at equilibrium, so thermodynamically speaking it wants to relax). However, at room temperature, the thermodynamic driving force is so small and the kinetic pathways so limited that this would take a VERY long time. I don't know the precise activation barrier but probably in the vicinity of 10^20 years. So technically yes, but really no
