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Type: | Journal article |
Title: | Environmental influence on the stress corrosion cracking of rock bolts |
Author: | Gamboa, E. Atrens, A. |
Citation: | Engineering Failure Analysis, 2003; 10(5):521-558 |
Publisher: | Pergamon-Elsevier Science Ltd |
Issue Date: | 2003 |
ISSN: | 1350-6307 1873-1961 |
Statement of Responsibility: | Erwin Gamboa and Andrej Atrens |
Abstract: | In order to understand rock bolt Stress Corrosion Cracking (SCC), a series of experiments have been performed in Linearly Increasing Stress Test (LIST) apparatus. One series of experiments determined the threshold stress of various bolt metallurgies (900 MPa for Steel A, and 800 MPa for Steel B and C). The high values of threshold stress suggest that SCC begins in rock bolts when they are sheared by moving rock strata. Typical crack velocity values have been measured to be 2.5 × 10-8 m s-1, indicating that there is not much benefit for rock bolt steel of higher fracture toughness. Another series of experiments were performed to understand the environmental conditions causing SCC of steel A and galvanised Steel A rock bolt steel. SCC only occurred for environmental conditions for which produce hydrogen on the sample surface, leading to hydrogen embrittlement and SCC. Fracture surfaces of LIST samples failed by SCC were found to display the same fracture regions as fracture surfaces of rock bolts failed in service by SCC: Tearing Topography Surface (TTS), Corrugated Irregular Surface (CIS), quasi Micro Void Coalescence (qMVC) and Fast Fracture Surface (FFS). Water chemistry analysis were carried out on samples collected from various Australian mines in order to compare laboratory electrolyte conditions to those found in underground mines. © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
Keywords: | Stress corrosion cracking Rock bolts Fracture Steel Linearly Increasing Stress Test (LIST |
Description: | Copyright © 2003 Elsevier Ltd. All rights reserved. |
DOI: | 10.1016/S1350-6307(03)00036-0 |
Description (link): | http://www.elsevier.com/wps/find/journaldescription.cws_home/30190/description#description |
Published version: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s1350-6307(03)00036-0 |
Appears in Collections: | Aurora harvest Materials Research Group publications Mechanical Engineering publications |
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