Dimensions Reinforcing Pad

For the dimensions of a reinforcing pad you can handle as rule:

1. Material = same material as the run pipe

2. Width = half a diameter of the branch pipe (at least 50 mm)
3. Thickness = same thickness as the run pipe, with a min. of 3 mm
and a max. of 20 mm

Installation of Reinforcing Pad

Below an example for the assembly of a reinforcing pad.

• Determine the location of the branch, and make a round hole in the run pipe where the
diameter should be equal to the inside diameter of the branch.

• Finish the branch equal to outside diameter of run pipe and make a welding bevel of
around 30°.

• Place the branch with a gap by about 3 to 4 mm about the hole location on the run
pipe, and tack weld the branch on a sufficient number of places. Then the new branch
can be completely welded.

• If de weld is ready, depending on the requirements Non Destructive Examination

(NDE) must be done.

• Then the reinforcing pad can be placed by slide him over the branch. The pad must be
positioned so that around the branch, is overall the same open space, and that the pad
is fully in line with the run pipe. Tack weld the pad on a sufficient number of places, and
after that the pad can be inside and outside fully welded; depending on the prescribed
quality requirements, then again NDE must be done. Attention! -- Cited as a flange at
the branch pipe is welded, you must obviously make sure that the ring is placed earlier.
You will not be the first and probably not the last, with a reinforcing pad in his hands,
and discovered that the sequence of action was not entirely correct.