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Plastic Pipes Conference Association # 2016 Berlin
Zhang Wei, Wei Ruoqi, Zhou Minghong, Zhou Mingwei,
This article gives a brief introduction of plastic inspection chambers underground test, analyzes the stress borne by plastic inspection chambers from different angles combined with pressure sensors and strain gauges, sorts out some of the underground test data and analyzes the test data, and finally sums up the stress characteristics and influencing factors of plastic inspection chambers in their actual use.
After nearly a decade of development, China's plastic inspection chambers industry has shaped a considerable scale. At the beginning we had to import products from abroad, and later we developed by ourselves and expanded the application. The plastic inspection chambers used for residential communities have been widely recognized and widely adopted in the projects [1]; municipal plastic inspection chambers are in a critical period to accelerate the popularization and application. Due to the lack of practical engineering test data, the lack of first-hand information in the standard-setting process, there is a big controversy on some technical indicators in the standards. In order to analyze plastic inspection chambers stress distribution in actual use, Changzhou Hippo Plastics Co., Ltd., of China, Beijing Research Institute of Chemical Industry, Nanjing Juhang Technology Co., Ltd. jointly conducted engineering tests on the use of plastic inspection chambers.
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