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A new apparatus was developed and used to investigate the swelling behavior of crosslinked hydrophilic polymers under an applied load as a function of time and absorbed weight. The swelling capacity and creep compliance of the polyacrylates under load was found to be a function of their degree of crosslinking. The swelling behavior was analyzed as a function of time using the Nutting equation which allowed for a measure of the relative viscous or elastic contributions of the polymer to the creep behavior.