ABSTRACT
Several other salt-mechanics investigators (for example, Urai and Spiers (2007)) explain the role of liquid water (brine) surrounding test specimens and the effect of liquid water on creep rates and salt crystal recrystallization. Tests involving liquid water are consistent with humidity-or water-vapor-enhanced creep, but the amount of moisture involved and the intimacy between the salt and water is quite different in their tests compared to salt in a “dry” salt or potash mine.
