Concrete Pipes and Pipelines

Overall Background of Concrete Pipe. Different Methods of Mass Production of Concrete Pipes. Horizontal Spinning Processes and P.V.C. Lining. Manufacturing of welded Cages and Details of Machines. Specifications and Quality Assurance. Normal Problems Encountered During Manufacture of Socket Spigot Concrete Pipes and their Probable Solutions. Requirements of Raw Materials for Pipes. Loads on Buried Pipes. Design of Concrete Pipe. Laying and Field Testing of Pipes with Rubber Ring Joints. Distributed Reinforced Concrete Pipes. Performance of Reinforced Concrete Pipes. Maintenance of Concrete Pipelines. Salient Feature of One of the Biggest Most Modern Plant for Manufacturing Concrete Pipes by Centrifugal Spinning Process. Illustration of the Process by Photographs (Special Arrangements of Every Operation are Worth Nothing). Special Uses of Concrete Pipes. Results of Testing in 1997 of 75 Years Old Concrete Pipe. Index.