FIVE-YEAR FIELD CORROSION STUDY OF STEEL PIPE TO DETERMINE EFFECTS OF BACKFILL MATERIALS

RESULTS OF A CORROSION STUDY INVOLVING EXPOSURE OF GALVANIZED AND BLACK PIPE SPECIMENS FOR FIVE YEARS IN VARIOUS BACKFILL MATERIALS ARE REPORTED. BACKFILL MATERIALS USED INCLUDED SLAGS, LIMESTONE AND GRAVELS, NATIVE SOIL AND COAL CINDERS. CORROSION OF THE PIPE, CONSIDERING THE VARIABILITY INHERENT IN TESTS OF THIS TYPE, WAS SIMILAR IN ALL BACKFILL MATERIALS EXCEPT COAL CINDERS. ONLY THE CINDERS WERE SERIOUSLY CORROSIVE IN EFFECT, AND NO OTHER BACKFILL USED REACTED IN THIS MANNER. CORROSION OF BLACK PIPE WAS APPRECIABLY GREATER THAN THAT OF GALVANIZED PIPE IN ALL BACKFILL MATERIALS. /AUTHOR/

• Record URL:
  • http://onlinepubs.trb.org/Onlinepubs/hrr/1966/140/140-001.pdf
• Supplemental Notes:
  • Paper sponsored by Committee on Metals in Highway Structures and presented at the 45th Annual Meeting. Distribution, posting, or copying of this PDF is strictly prohibited without written permission of the Transportation Research Board of the National Academy of Sciences. Unless otherwise indicated, all materials in this PDF are copyrighted by the National Academy of Sciences. Copyright © National Academy of Sciences. All rights reserved.
• Authors:
  • Bauman, E W
  • Lewis, D W
• Publication Date: 1966

Media Info

• Media Type: Digital/other
• Features: Figures; References; Tables;
• Pagination: pp 1-8
• Monograph Title: Corrosion and protection of metals
• Serial:
  • Highway Research Record
  • Issue Number: 140
  • Publisher: Highway Research Board

Subject/Index Terms

• TRT Terms: Backfilling; Coal; Corrosion; Deterioration; Galvanizing; Gravel; Limestone; Slag; Soils; Steel pipe; Studies
• Old TRIS Terms: Backfills
• Subject Areas: Geotechnology; Highways; Materials;

Filing Info

• Accession Number: 00215813
• Record Type: Publication
• Files: TRIS, TRB
• Created Date: Nov 10 1994 12:00AM