On-line spray water cooling (OSWC) of electric-resistance-welded (ERW) steel pipes can replace the conventional off-line heat treatment process and become an important and critical procedure. The OSWC process improves production efficiency, decreases costs, and enhances the mechanical properties of ERW steel pipe, especially the impact properties of the weld joint. In this paper, an annular OSW...

A general robotic mechanism was presented for in-pipe inspection oflevel pipes with varied diameter or curved pipelines. The robot employed three legs comprised of parallelogram linkages mechanism which enables adapting to various elbow joints in the piping systems. The curvatures in pipeline are the most important constraints in front of the robot through navigation process. To study the adapt...

Pull-out fracture of lag-screw bolt is brittle and has a large dispersion in strength. therefore, the bucking pipe preceding pull-out controls strength toughness joint. The sandwiched between bolts fixed to base plate. method little dispersion, can be controlled by adjusting thickness length effect was confirmed experiments. it also that once maximum load reached, restored exchanging pipe.