Durability of PE gas pipes : effect of squeezing

• Main Author: Choy, Bernard Jun Hao
• Other Authors: Aravind Dasari
• Format: Final Year Project
• Language: English
• Published: 2015
• Subjects: DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Material testing and characterization; DRNTU::Engineering::Materials::Testing of materials
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/10356/62366
• Institution: Nanyang Technological University

Squeeze off is a method to isolate a particular segment of the gas pipelines in order to service/repair a section downstream. There are extensive studies on properties, such as compressive strength and wall thickness changes, of polyethylene pipe immediately after squeeze off. Polyethylene is viscoe...