The analysis of THE Creep and redistribution of stress in highly redundant fabricated structures both by the matrix force and matrix displacement methods is discussed. Application is considered to structures of the skin-stringer type and an analysis of a fabricated aluminium alloy box beam under constant load and temperature is presented. It is concluded that although the stepwise solution is cumbersome its use may well be justified for complex structures for which the effect of creep would be difficult to anticipate.
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