The creep behavior of a thick walled hollow circular cylinder, made of aluminum silicon carbide particulate composite material has been investigated in the present study and creep behavior in this case is assumed to follow Sherby's constitutive model. The stress and strain rate distributions of cylinder rotating about its own axis, have been obtained using von Mises and Tresca yield criteria. The effect of pressure on the stresses and strain rates in the cylinder has been investigated and it is observed that with the increase of the internal pressure in the cylinder the strain rate increases. The introduction of external pressure along with the internal pressure causes the strain rates to decrease. It is also observed that the values of effective stress and strain rate obtained using Tresca criterion are higher than those obtained using Mises criterion. Thus it is suggested to use Tresca criterion for the analysis while designing the cylinder.
