Abstract:
A connection tube (1) for connecting two tubes (8, 9) of different alloys, wherein the connection tube has a central through-hole extending along a longitudinal axis and comprises a first end portion (2) of a first alloy, a second end portion (3) of a second alloy, and a middle portion (4) which is at least partly double-layered with said second alloy forming an annular inner layer and said first alloy forming an annular outer layer, wherein a metallic bond has been formed between said layers. The inner and outer layers are mechanically interlocked by means of at least one helically extending thread formed in an interface between said layers. The connection tube is manufactured from a base component and an outer component threaded onto the base component to form a work piece, which is hot worked to form a metallic bond.
Abstract:
A method for producing a multilayered large pipe out of an outer pipe which forms a supporting layer, and at least one inner pipe, which forms a lining layer and is bent from a lining sheet and welded along a longitudinal seam or is seamless, including the following sequence of method steps: preparing a wavy inner pipe which is bent from the lining sheet with a continuously rounded wavy contour extending transverse to a longitudinal axis of the large pipe and with wave troughs and wave crests extending continuously over a length of the wavy inner pipe where the maximum outer diameter of the wavy inner pipe is smaller than the inner diameter of the outer pipe; inserting the wavy inner pipe into the outer pipe; and expanding the wavy inner pipe by an expansion force acting in a radially outward direction until it assumes an almost round form and, after removal of the expansion force, is clamped in a nonpositive way in the outer pipe, and subsequent relaxation.
Abstract:
A method of making a lightweight heat pipe includes steps of: a) preparing a first hollow pipe and a second hollow pipe making of two different materials; b) disposing the first hollow pipe into the second hollow pipe along an axial direction of the second hollow pipe; c) making an inner wall surface of the second hollow pipe attached on an outer wall surface of the first hollow pipe to combine the first and the second hollow pipes as a pipe body of the heat pipe; and d) vacuuming an inner space of the first hollow pipe, and sealing the pipe body after working fluid is filled in the inner space of the first hollow pipe to finish the heat pipe.
Abstract:
A process for producing a multilayer pipe by expansion is disclosed, with or without heating, in which a multilayer pipe (1 ) comprises at least one outer pipe of metallic material (10) and an inner pipe of metallic material (20), the inner pipe of metallic material (20) having a yield strength lower than the yield strength of the outer pipe (23) and an external diameter smaller than the internal diameter of the outer pipe. The process for producing the multilayer pipe comprises a mounting step (34) between the pipes (10, 20), wherein the inner pipe is inserted inside the outer pipe, and at least one mechanical expansion step (36), comprising moving a mandrel (2) longitudinally and internally in the inner pipe (20) while the outer pipe and the inner pipe are held at a fixed position, wherein at least part of the mandrel (2) has a greater external diameter than the internal diameter of the inner pipe. When the pipes are subjected to a process of cold expansion, a “lined pipe” is obtained, which is characterized by mechanical bonding between the pipes. When the pipes are subjected to a process of hot expansion, a “clad pipe” is obtained, which is characterized by metallurgical bonding between the pipes.
Abstract:
A method for producing a multilayer large pipe having an outer support layer and at least one inner liner layer. Advantages with regard to productivity and the properties of the multilayer large pipe are achieved by the sequence of method steps wherein production of a support sheet is pre-bent to a predetermined initial bending radius for the support layer and at least one liner sheet is pre-bent to a predetermined initial bending radius for the liner layer, placement of the at least one pre-bent liner sheet against the inside of the pre-bent support sheet, with a positioning and parallel alignment of its longitudinal edges extending in the direction of the bending axis in order to form the support layer and the at least one liner layer, there is integral joining of at least one of two longitudinal edges of the at least one liner sheet to the support sheet, shaping of the composite of the integrally joined support layer and at least one liner layer to form a slit multilayer large pipe by a bending machine, with nonpositive, frictional engagement in liner regions that are not integrally joined, and there is closing of the remaining gap of the slit multilayer large pipe with a longitudinal seam by welding.