Sentence examples for pipes split from inspiring English sources

It holds a glassed-in graveyard of corroded pipes, split joints and other industrial casualties, all results of bad water flowing through manufacturing processes, cooling systems and the like.

It had a crossbar so that it might be turned with two hands, and it resembled a pipe split lengthwise.

Pipe splitting is a more recently developed technique that has been proposed for 'on line' replacement of ductile iron and steel pipes.

It has also been found that the orientation of the blade of the pipe splitting device has a considerable impact on the resulting ground displacements.

To this end, Advantica Technologies Limited is currently sponsoring a programme of full-scale laboratory model testing of pipe splitting operations at the University of Birmingham.

From the results it was observed that the McElroy Manufacturing Inc. 'Bullet' pipe splitting device produced a clean split in the ductile iron pipe whereas the U-Mole Ltd. 'Clampburster' produced a much more fragmented host pipe.

Today, the range of options has widened to include pipejacking and microtunneling, pipe ramming, and directional drilling and in the case of on-line replacement, pipebursting and pipe splitting.

This paper describes the testing equipment used to determine the effects on the surrounding ground of the pipe splitting operation, details the programme of tests and reports the results of tests conducted in both clays and sands.

Therefore, while considering the valve locations as given later in Table 2, some of the pipes got split into two pipes.

In each of the 18 upper ports there are 20 inlet and 20 outlet pipes, which split at the port exit in two directions, supplying cooling water to either the inboard or the outboard blanket modules.

The oil had found its way into the sewers and down into the rainwater drainage pipes that split off in a V-like shape, and empty directly into the lake.