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butt fusion

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butt fusion [′bət ‚fyü·zhən]
(engineering)
The joining of two pieces of plastic or metal pipes or sheets by heating the ends until they are molten and then pressing them together to form a homogeneous bond.
butt fusion
A method of joining plastic pipe, sheet, or other similar forms of a thermoplastic resin wherein the two ends to be joined are heated to the molten state and then rapidly pressed together to form a homogeneous bond.
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Butt fusion with itself and other MDPE and HDPE pipes reportedly is easily performed with commercial fusion equipment following the PPI TR-33 Generic Butt Fusion Joining Procedure.
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11 the effect of cooling time is illustrated: The creep strengths of the fusion zones were equal to or better than that of the butt fusion zone at every position.
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