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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Properties <strong>of</strong> ductile cast ir<strong>on</strong> pipes<br />
pipe system and its joints have to meet, specifies what the performance <strong>of</strong> the pipe<br />
system and its joints has to be. In the type tests which are laid down for this purpose,<br />
the comp<strong>on</strong>ents and their joints are tested for the following:<br />
• Sealing <strong>of</strong> the comp<strong>on</strong>ents against internal water pressure<br />
• Sealing <strong>of</strong> joints against positive internal pressure when subject to loads at the crown<br />
resp. angular deflecti<strong>on</strong><br />
• Sealing <strong>of</strong> joints against negative internal pressure when subject to loads at the crown<br />
resp. angular deflecti<strong>on</strong><br />
• Sealing <strong>of</strong> joints against positive external pressure when subject to loads at the<br />
crown.<br />
The l<strong>on</strong>gitudinal force-fit joints also have to pass a dynamic test in which the internal<br />
pressure alternates between PMA and PMA- for 2 ,000 load cycles. The functi<strong>on</strong>al<br />
requirements described and the related type tests have been included in the technical<br />
rules <strong>of</strong> the DVGW (the German Technical and Scientific Associati<strong>on</strong> <strong>on</strong> Gas and<br />
Water) which are given in Arbeitsblatt GW 3 8. In view <strong>of</strong> the importance that highquality<br />
l<strong>on</strong>gitudinal force-fit restrained joints will have in the future for trenchless pipe<br />
installati<strong>on</strong>, the supplementary requirement <strong>of</strong> an externally m<strong>on</strong>itored type test was<br />
introduced when the above document was revised in 2002. As well as this, all designs<br />
have to be listed by the following characteristic performance parameters:<br />
• allowable comp<strong>on</strong>ent operating pressure (PFA)<br />
• allowable angular deflecti<strong>on</strong>.<br />
With these particulars plus an indicati<strong>on</strong> <strong>of</strong> the externally m<strong>on</strong>itored type test, there<br />
being sets <strong>of</strong> particulars which are representative <strong>of</strong> respective <strong>on</strong>es <strong>of</strong> four groups <strong>of</strong><br />
nominal sizes, the planning engineer has the right tool for selecting the design giving<br />
safety against tractive forces that is best suited to a specific task.<br />
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