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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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