Wear Amount of Steel Structure in Ice-Infested Sea by Sliding Wear Test

Surface rust layers of corroded steel of coastal structures is removed by sea ice action in winter, leaving bare mild steel. This phenomenon is repeated every winter, promoting wear due to increasing corrosion. Serious damage to training levees comprising steel-sheet-pile seawalls on the Sea of Okhotsk, JAPAN occurred earlier than expected, since large wear rates were not considered in their design. This paper proposes a simple method for estimating wear amount (thickness) per year based on wear rate in a steady (mild) wear region obtained from sliding wear tests. This wear thickness can thus be taken as an additional thickness for the expected lifetime of a structure, as a rational countermeasure to corrosion as a sacrificial layer.