How to judge the ductile quality of a hollow bar anchor accurately and quickly?
The American has presented a very obvious demonstration of hollow bar ductility: Bending Test.
The test is simple to do and easy to analysis: just bend around 180° (U shape) over a pin.
If there are no visible cracks, the ductility of the hollow bar anchor is enough.
That means the fracture of a hollow bar will be avoided during the installation. And this is very important to contractors. Especially in the mining and tunneling.
We picked a R30N hollow bar anchor from the stock, and made a bending test today.
The Agt of this High Ductility hollow bar is up to 9%. So the result of bend test is very good.
Keep the balance of strength and ductility is not easy to hollow bar anchor manufacturers, but we have done it.