With the growing demand for the low-weight, but reliable design of plastic products, the finite element modelling of mechanical behaviour of plastic parts becomes more important. However, despite of strong time-dependent behaviour of polymers, the visco-elasticity models are rarely used by engineers in everyday practice. Instead, the elasticity or elastic-plastic material models are used. It is due to lack of well-established visco-elasticity models in the commercial FEA packages, but also due to the traditional (among the engineers) point of view, when plastic is considered to the "metal alike". In this paper, based on the example of problem on creep-buckling of plastic strips, the benchmark of several constitutive models is performed.

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