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\"Fiberglass<\/figure>\n\n

Pipe repair is one of the few composite applications where the material is chosen on site, handled by a crew under time pressure, and judged on whether the repair holds for the next twenty years. Glass fiber dominates this work for three reasons: it costs a fraction of carbon, its modulus is closer to steel and concrete so the repair shares load instead of delaminating, and it does not set up a galvanic couple with a steel host pipe.<\/p>\n

What makes specifying difficult is that “glass fiber tape” describes at least four different products. The format you pick decides the repair method you can use.<\/p>\n

Material formats used in repair work<\/h2>\n\n\n\n
Format<\/th>Where it is used<\/th>What you must fix in the specification<\/th><\/tr>\n<\/thead>\n
Unidirectional glass tape<\/td>Filament-wound sleeves, wrap reinforcement, tape-laid liners<\/td>Width, thickness, fiber areal weight, matrix (thermoplastic or thermoset)<\/td><\/tr>\n
Woven glass fabric<\/td>Hand lay-up patches, vacuum-infused overlays, joint wraps<\/td>Weave (plain or twill), areal weight in g\/m\u00b2, roll width<\/td><\/tr>\n
Woven roving<\/td>Thick build-up on large-diameter pipe, low-pressure work<\/td>Areal weight, weave openness, resin uptake<\/td><\/tr>\n
Roving<\/td>Filament winding of new liners and sleeves<\/td>Tex (yield), strand count, sizing compatibility<\/td><\/tr>\n<\/tbody>\n<\/table>\n

The five parameters that decide the material<\/h2>\n

Almost every failed specification comes from leaving one of these five open. They are also the five things we ask for before quoting.<\/p>\n

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  1. Pipe diameter and repair length.<\/strong> These set tape width and the roll length needed per wrap. A 300 mm main and a 1200 mm trunk main do not use the same tape width, and the number of wraps changes the total length by a large factor.<\/li>\n
  2. Host pipe material.<\/strong> Steel, cast iron, concrete and PE behave differently. Steel needs surface preparation to SA 2.5 before any wrap; concrete needs a different primer; PE usually needs a thermoplastic-compatible system because nothing bonds to it reliably.<\/li>\n
  3. Repair method.<\/strong> A cured-in-place liner, an external wrap, a filament-wound sleeve and a structural overlay each impose different requirements on the reinforcement \u2014 thickness tolerance matters most for liners, conformability matters most for wraps.<\/li>\n
  4. Resin system.<\/strong> Epoxy, vinyl ester and polyurethane each wet out glass differently, and the sizing on the glass has to match. If the site cannot handle wet lay-up, a thermoplastic matrix tape avoids the resin entirely.<\/li>\n
  5. Pressure and temperature rating.<\/strong> This is what actually determines the laminate build-up \u2014 number of plies, orientation and total thickness. Fix the rating first, then work back to the material.<\/li>\n<\/ol>\n

    Glass or carbon for a repair laminate?<\/h2>\n

    Carbon is stiffer, and for a repair that has to carry bending load over a long unsupported span that stiffness can matter. But three things usually push the decision back to glass: cost per unit of strength, the risk of a galvanic couple with a steel substrate, and the fact that a very stiff repair can concentrate stress at its termination instead of spreading it. Hybrid build-ups \u2014 glass at the interfaces, carbon in the primary load path \u2014 are common where both properties are needed.<\/p>\n

    Five specification mistakes that ruin a repair laminate<\/h2>\n