How to produce all kinds of spiral steel pipes from a piece of steel?
(1) Conduct various inspections on raw materials. Raw materials generally refer to strip steel coils, welding wires, fluxes, etc. Before putting into use, they must go through strict physical and chemical tests to ensure quality.
(2) The head-to-tail butt joint of strip steel adopts single-wire or double-wire submerged arc welding, and automatic submerged arc welding is used for repair welding after being rolled into steel pipes.
(3) Carry out process treatment. Before forming, the required steel materials are leveled, trimmed, planed, surface cleaned, transported, and pre-bent.
(4) Electric contact pressure gauges are used to control the pressure of the cylinders on both sides of the conveyor to ensure the smooth conveying of the strip.
(5) Adopt external control or internal control roll forming.
(6) The weld gap control device is used to ensure that the weld gap meets the welding requirements and that the pipe diameter, misalignment, and weld gap are strictly controlled.
(7) Both internal welding and external welding use American Lincoln welding machines for single-wire or double-wire submerged arc welding, to obtain stable welding specifications.
(8) All the welded seams are inspected by an online continuous ultrasonic automatic flaw detector, which ensures 100% non-destructive testing coverage of the spiral steel pipe. If there is a defect, it will automatically alarm and spray the mark, and the production workers can adjust the process parameters at any time according to this to eliminate the defect in time.
(9) Use an air plasma cutting machine to cut the steel pipe into single pieces.
(10) After cutting into single steel pipes, the first three steel pipes of each batch must undergo a strict first inspection system to check the mechanical properties, chemical composition, fusion status of the weld, the surface quality of the steel pipes, and non-destructive testing to ensure the quality of the pipe-making process. Only after passing the test can it be formally put into production.
(11) The part marked by continuous ultrasonic flaw detection on the weld shall undergo manual ultrasonic and X-ray re-examination. If there is a defect, after repair, it shall undergo non-destructive inspection again until it is confirmed that the defect has been eliminated.
(12) The pipes where the strip steel butt welds and the D-joints intersecting with the spiral welds are located have all been inspected by X-ray TV or film.
(13) Each steel pipe has passed the hydrostatic pressure test, and the pressure is radially sealed. The test pressure and time are strictly controlled by the steel pipe water pressure microcomputer detection device. The test parameters are automatically printed and recorded.
(14) The pipe end is machined to accurately control the verticality of the end face, the bevel angle, and the blunt edge.
Usually, after the above 14 steps, a spiral steel pipe has been formed, but such a spiral steel pipe cannot be directly sent to the market, and work such as inspection of the quality of the spiral steel pipe and other aspects are still required.
Post time: Mar-15-2023