Straps. In general the use of straps shall not be allowed. Whenever their use is unavoidable, approval of Employer’s Representative shall be required. Wherever pipe laying work is done from two faces and/or has to be done in broken stretches due to any difficulty met with at the Project Site, the final connection has to be made by introducing straps to cover gaps up to 300 mm in length. Straps shall also be provided as per the procedure of fixing expansion joints by the method described. Such straps shall be fabricated in the field by cutting pipes, slitting them longitudinally and slipping them over the ends to be connected in the form of a collar. The collar shall be in two halves and shall have its inside diameter equal to the outside diameter of the pipe to be connected. A minimum lap of 80 mm on either end of the pipe shall be maintained and fillet welds shall be run both internally and externally along the circumferential joint. The longitudinal joints of the collar shall be butt-welded. All fillet welds shall have a throat thickness of not less than 0.7 times the width of welding.
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