Rolling in (connection technology)

Rolled-in tube (left)

The mechanical rolling of pipes is a method of fastening pipes in tube plates in tube bundle heat exchangers or in water-tube boilers .

Steel pipes are expanded ( plastically deformed ) using a rolling device , so that a press fit and connection is created in a plate .

literature

• Hubert Titze: Elements of apparatus construction: Basics - components - apparatus . Springer, Berlin 1963, ISBN 978-3-662-01280-2 , chapter 11.12, p. 192 ( limited preview in Google Book search).

Individual evidence

1. ↑ Rolling in the boiler tubes. Retrieved October 9, 2015 (example of the rolling in of the boiler tubes in a steam boiler, with illustration).