Seasoned engineers who have extensive experience with expansion joints know the pivotal roles that pipe anchors and guides play in maintaining their piping systems. However, putting these supports in the wrong places may threaten the joints’ functionality, worker safety, and overall efficiency. This blog will explore the importance of location in pipe anchoring and guiding and why correct positioning matters.
Proper Positioning Prevents System Failure
One major reason that engineers must install pipe anchors and guides in the right locations is to help prevent expansion joint failure. Although these joints accommodate thermal growth and contraction in piping systems, disaster will ensue without well-positioned anchors and guides.
A poorly anchored pipe will experience uncontrolled movement, leading to joint damage, fatigue, and eventual failure. By putting anchors and guides in the right positions, engineers can prevent undue stress on the joints and pipes, reducing the likelihood of failure and extending the system’s life.
It Helps Keep Your Employees Safe
Proper pipe anchoring and guiding also help increase worker safety. If you don’t restrain your pipes correctly, they can become hazardous, leading to potential accidents when they move unexpectedly.
However, correctly placing your anchors and guides will stabilize your system and minimize unexpected movements. This protects employees working near these systems from injury.
Engineers who focus on precision in anchor and guide placement can take heart in the fact that they are helping reduce accidents. In addition, this will help foster trust among team members.
It Makes Them Easier for Workers To Maintain
One last benefit of properly positioned anchors and guides is ease of maintenance. When engineers place the components in the appropriate places, workers can access them with less difficulty. Poorly positioned guides or anchors complicate access, leading to longer maintenance times and increased frustration.
Doing the opposite can help your fellow workers streamline their maintenance procedures. This will allow them to perform inspections and repairs more quickly and reduce your operation’s downtime. You will make employees more productive and contribute to your company’s cost-effectiveness.
Triad Bellows offers its customers high-grade expansion joints to help their systems cope with contraction and superior pipe guides and supports so that they can function correctly. Our team is ready to work with you to enhance your firm’s safety and productivity.
