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Buderus Manual on Trenchless Installation of Ductile Cast ... - Duktus

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Fig. 2.11<br />

How the pipes are produced<br />

a permanent metal mould (a chill mould)<br />

which is cooled from the outside by water<br />

and which does not need a thermally insulating<br />

covering. One chill mould can be<br />

used to cast as many as several thousand<br />

pipes, depending <strong>on</strong> their nominal size.<br />

The sudden quenching <strong>of</strong> the liquid cast<br />

ir<strong>on</strong> against the water-cooled chill mould<br />

produces just a single solidificati<strong>on</strong> fr<strong>on</strong>t,<br />

facing towards the wall <strong>of</strong> the chill mould,<br />

which makes the microstructure particularly<br />

fine-grained and dense. After heat<br />

treatment to transform the microstructure<br />

(Fig. 2.12), it is possible to obtain appreciably<br />

higher strength in the grey cast<br />

ir<strong>on</strong> pipes than can be obtained in pipes<br />

cast in sand moulds. The length <strong>of</strong> the<br />

Fig. 2.12<br />

pipes went up to five or six metres, and the wall thickness went down and became<br />

more uniform. Shortly after the centrifugal casting process made its breakthrough, the<br />

new joint-making technique was invented (see secti<strong>on</strong> 2.3), and after that the leadsealed<br />

socket could <strong>on</strong>ly be a thing <strong>of</strong> the past.<br />

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