A method has been developed for calculating the nominal wall thickness of matching pipe for certain sizes of branch connections and stress intensification factor (SIF) and for designing branch ...

When I first started in the trades, I missed the lead-wiping joint requirement on my Journeyman’s test by just one year. Although lead-wiped joints had been out of use for many years, the skills ...

If you are not familiar with grooved mechanical piping systems, then chances are you haven’t experienced its positive impact on your bottom line. The grooved mechanical pipe joining method has been ...

When a municipality repairs water or sewer pipes, it faces what seems like an easy decision: Dig up roads to replace the pipes entirely, or thread a tube of polymer resin through the damaged pipes, ...