Supertube sets off for London
13 Aug 2008
The giant tube is load-tested using weights
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.
Having been successfully trialled for strength and integrity the monopile was transported to the capital where it will form the base of a temporary crane structure.The order is one of many civil engineering contracts carried out by Deepdale Engineering for major clients in the UK and throughout the world.
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