Anchor bolts are commonly used throughout underground mining and tunnelling operations to improve roof stability.However,premature failures of anchor bolts are significant safety risks in underground excavations aroun...Anchor bolts are commonly used throughout underground mining and tunnelling operations to improve roof stability.However,premature failures of anchor bolts are significant safety risks in underground excavations around the world due to susceptible bolt materials,a moist and corrosive environment and tensile stress.In this paper,laboratory experiments and hydrogeochemical models were combined to investigate anchor bolt corrosion and failure associated with aqueous environments in underground coal mines.Experimental data and collated mine water chemistry data were used to simulate bolt corrosion reactions with groundwater and rock materials with the PHREEQC code.A series of models quantified reactions involving iron and carbon under aerobic and anaerobic conditions in comparison with ion,pH and pE trends in experimental data.The models showed that corrosion processes are inhibited by some natural environmental factors,because dissolved oxygen would cause more iron from the bolts to oxidize into solution.These interdisciplinary insights into corrosion failure of underground anchor bolts confirm that environmental factors are important contributors to stress corrosion cracking.展开更多
During the whole operation life of Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk hydroelectric plants, chemical analysis of water filtering through the pressure front of the concrete dams was under systematic monitoring by sampling in places...During the whole operation life of Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk hydroelectric plants, chemical analysis of water filtering through the pressure front of the concrete dams was under systematic monitoring by sampling in places of concemrated outcome in the inspection galleries of a dam. Long-term cumulative observations made up a basis for study of the indicated dams concrete corrosion caused by the Angara water in the process of its filtration through the cracks formed in the period of the dam erection, through construction joims and other defects. Mathematical-statistical analysis allowed the classification the processes of corrosion from the point of view of their time dynamics and divided them correspondingly into stationary （stable） and non-stationary. On the basis of a calculation of the cement stone componem removal along with the ideas of the process dynamics the pressure from filtration developmem forecast has been made and their danger level has been estimated. The developed conception is of rather a general character and can be used when analyzing the state of concrete dams of the Angara cascade and other similar cases.展开更多
基金Project(140100153)supported by Australian Research Council Linkage Grant。
文摘Anchor bolts are commonly used throughout underground mining and tunnelling operations to improve roof stability.However,premature failures of anchor bolts are significant safety risks in underground excavations around the world due to susceptible bolt materials,a moist and corrosive environment and tensile stress.In this paper,laboratory experiments and hydrogeochemical models were combined to investigate anchor bolt corrosion and failure associated with aqueous environments in underground coal mines.Experimental data and collated mine water chemistry data were used to simulate bolt corrosion reactions with groundwater and rock materials with the PHREEQC code.A series of models quantified reactions involving iron and carbon under aerobic and anaerobic conditions in comparison with ion,pH and pE trends in experimental data.The models showed that corrosion processes are inhibited by some natural environmental factors,because dissolved oxygen would cause more iron from the bolts to oxidize into solution.These interdisciplinary insights into corrosion failure of underground anchor bolts confirm that environmental factors are important contributors to stress corrosion cracking.
文摘During the whole operation life of Bratsk and Ust-Ilimsk hydroelectric plants, chemical analysis of water filtering through the pressure front of the concrete dams was under systematic monitoring by sampling in places of concemrated outcome in the inspection galleries of a dam. Long-term cumulative observations made up a basis for study of the indicated dams concrete corrosion caused by the Angara water in the process of its filtration through the cracks formed in the period of the dam erection, through construction joims and other defects. Mathematical-statistical analysis allowed the classification the processes of corrosion from the point of view of their time dynamics and divided them correspondingly into stationary （stable） and non-stationary. On the basis of a calculation of the cement stone componem removal along with the ideas of the process dynamics the pressure from filtration developmem forecast has been made and their danger level has been estimated. The developed conception is of rather a general character and can be used when analyzing the state of concrete dams of the Angara cascade and other similar cases.
