In order to numerically simulate creep behaviors and stress relaxation effects of realistic structural components under operating conditions in service
a model based on normalized parameters
which can be used to describe all the features of creep deformation in three stages
was presented and coded into a users subroutine under the platform of a commercial finite element package by use of its user programmable features tools. The difference between the numerical results from the coded subroutine and the experimental data
and the effect of time step on numerical results
was investigated. The computers time consuming for solution of finite element models in different scale was compared and analyzed. For a loading case with stress and/or temperature changing
the time hardening theory and the strain hardening theory
as well as the relative time hardening theory presented with its result between those of them
were implemented in the coded subroutine. Numerical results of a plate with a hole show that the coded subroutine can be used to simulate the creep behaviors and effects of stress relaxation in realistic structural components
and that the feasibility and effectiveness of the coded subroutine are validated.