Supertube sets off for London
13 Aug 2008
Deepdale Engineering Company Ltd has completed and despatched a 20m long, 2.2m diameter section of monopile tube for a Central London rail project. The 40mm thick carbon steel tube was cold rolled and automatic submerged arc welded at Deepdale’s engineering and fabrications unit in Dudley.
Weighing in at 46 tonnes, the finished fabrication was supplied complete with internal stiffening rings, lifting frame assembly and wing brackets. The giant tube was loaded onto a long trailer and taken to a local testing facility where it was subjected to a number of rigorous load tests which including being lifted into the vertical position using specialist crane equipment.
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