Author‘s general mesomechanical concept is applied to explanation of the physical background of the phenomenon of springback and to its modeling. The internal elastic stress field in the material is modeled on the mesoscale and the variations of this field clarify the main features of springback that are observed experimentally in the process of loading, unloading and loading-free creep. Attention is not paid to minute description of the stress-strain diagram appearing in the course of unloading, but to the value of the residual strain after unloading, which is important from the technical point of view. It is shown how creep after unloading depends on stored energy. and Obsahuje seznam literatury a názvosloví