Studies at the Pacific Northwest National Laboratory (PNNL) in Richland, Washington, are being conducted to evaluate nondestructive examinations (NDE) coupled with mechanical testing of butt fusion joints in high-density polyethylene (HDPE) pipe for assessing lack of fusion. The work provides information to the Nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) on the effectiveness of volumetric inspection te...

In the application of guided waves NDT, the selection of exciting frequency is not only related with the setup of sensor, but also with the characteristics of pipe’s structure and material. In this paper, the characteristic of guided waves propagation in pipes that L(0,1) and L(0,2) have a cutoff frequency are respectively discussed, and the calculation formulas of their cutoff frequency are gi...

Novel catalyst called super active for the production of high density polyethylene (HDPE) pipes grade 100 was prepared and localized first time in Iran. The purpose this paper is to evaluate performance new compare it with Finix-112 which a commercial HEPE 100. Extensive experiments were performed on physical mechanical properties product using both catalysts including melt flow index, particle...

In this paper, a stochastic finite element method (SFEM) is employed to investigate the probability of failure of cementitious buried sewer pipes subjected to combined effect of corrosion and stresses. A non-linear time-dependant model is used to determine the extent of concrete corrosion. Using the SFEM, the effects of different random variables, including loads, pipe material, and corrosion o...

Natural pipes are common in many upland blanket peats, yet little is known about pipe network morphology or pipeflow processes. Most information on soil piping comes from the shallow peaty podzols of the Welsh uplands, where monitoring suggests that pipes may be important contributors to streamflow. This paper presents information on piping and pipeflow from a deep upland blanket peat catchment...

Due to the very long operational lifetimes (up 100 years) of polyethylene pipes, there is a strong demand for accelerated testing pipe materials experimentally prove ability certain material achieve such lifetime. Among tests performance, cracked round bar (CRB) test most convenient. The CRB takes advantage cyclic loading that applied on cylindrical specimens with circumferential notch in middl...

In order to increase the efficiency of the conveyance of the granular solids, a new experimental set-up is designed. The test rig has longitudinal trapezoidal slots in its conveying pipes. Through experimentation, a correlation for friction factor in terms of solid mass flow rate, fluid flow rate and Froude number is presented. It is shown that the mixture friction factor for pipes with inn...

BACKGROUND Concurrent use of tobacco products such as cigarettes and water pipes may be associated with increased risk of nicotine dependence and smoking-related complications. Accurate statistics are not available regarding the prevalence of water pipe use or concurrent use of cigarettes and water pipe in the Iranian population. Thus, this study sought to assess the prevalence of concurrent us...

Kimberlites discovered so far in southern India are restricted to the Eastern Block of the Dharwar Craton and are distributed in three fields: Wajrakarur, Narayanpet, and Raipur. As summarized recently by Paul et al. (2006) and Patel et al. (2006), known kimberlite pipes in the Wajrakarur kimberlite field (WKF), which lies at the western margin of the Cuddapah Basin, occur in three clusters: Wa...

With the objective of contrasting performance between STREAMS and legacy approaches to system facilities, a comparison is made between the tested performance of the Linux legacy pipe implementation and the STREAMS-based pipe implementation using the Linux Fast-STREAMS package [? ]. 1 Background Pipes have a rich history in the UNIX operating system. Present on early Bell Laboratories UNIX Versi...