Patent ID: 6619104
Filing Date: 2003-09-16
Classification: G01N

Abstract:
A continuous testing device for a water pipe, comprisinga frame, carrying mechanical weight; a left fixed plate and a right fixed plate at left and right ends of said frame, providing fixed bases; a tested pipe section, being a tube body that allows monitoring, located between said left and right fixed plates next to said left fixed plate; a compensating pipe section, located between said left and right fixed plates next to said right fixed plate and having an inner space to be filled with liquid to exert a compensating axial force on said tested pipe section; a central plate, separating said tested pipe section and said compensating pipe section; two horizontal oil pressure cylinders, respectively mounted next to upper and lower sides of said tested pipe section, having left ends fastened to said left fixed plate and right ends fastened to said central plate and exerting a horizontal force on said central plate; a vertical oil pressure cylinder, mounted below said central plate, having an upper end fastened to a lower end of said central plate and a lower end set on said frame and exerting a vertical force on said central plate; and a connecting tube, connecting said tested pipe section and said compensating pipe section for compensating any pressure difference; wherein due to compensation of pressures inside said tested pipe section and said compensating pipe section, axial forces are balanced and, by operating said horizontal and vertical oil pressure cylinders, axial expansion and contraction as well as transversal bending of said tested pipe section are monitored under defined pressure loads.