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