The report covers the information gained through discussions with pipe manufacturers, previous field failure investigations, and other reports and information made available. Good insight into the important factors that affect the possibility of…
The objectives of this study were to establish whether a loading specification for highway transport of line pipe is actually necessary, and if so, to develop appropriate recommendations.
In many aspects the API Recommended Practice and the Battelle Supplementary Rules are quite similar, thus there is a need to for a comparison of API and Battelle Rules for rail car loading of line pipe.
Standards have been in place for many years providing procedures for the proper loading of line pipe for shipment by railroad and by vessel, namely, API Recommended Practice 5L1 and API Recommended Practice 5LW, respectively. These practices were…