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expansion bend
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expansion bend
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(Engineering / General Engineering) Engineering a loop in a pipe conveying hot fluid that provides flexibility which takes up thermal expansion and thus reduces temperature-induced stress in the pipe to an acceptable level


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At each pole, the fiber optic cable forms an expansion loop to allow for expansion of the messenger.
A flexible expansion loop is installed in each PVC line near each abutment to accommodate expansion of both the superstructure and the PVC during heating of the solution.
20 include a loop optimization wizard for easier expansion loop design and a seismic wizard for determining the G factor in static seismic loading conditions for three codes.
 
 
 
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