What's the difference between steel pipe and pipe fittings?
Steel: steel pipe is a hollow steel strip, used as pipe conveying fluid, such as oil, gas, water, gas, steam, in addition, the bending and torsional strength of the same, the weight is light, so it is widely used in the manufacture of machinery parts and engineering structures. It is also used to produce all kinds of conventional weapons, guns, shells and so on.
Pipe fittings: parts that connect pipes to pipes. According to the connection method can be divided into socket type pipe fittings, threaded fittings, flange pipe fittings and welding pipe fittings four kinds. Multipurpose; made of the same material as pipes. Elbow (elbow), flange, three pipe and four pipe (crosshead) and reducer (reducer) etc.. Elbow for pipeline corner; flange for the pipe and pipe interconnected parts, connected to the pipe end, three pipe for three pipe collection; four pipe for four tubes together place; for two pipes of different diameters connected to different diameter pipe.
Pipe classification: steel pipe seamless steel pipe and welded steel pipe (tube) two categories. It can be divided into round tube and special-shaped tube according to the sectional shape. The round steel tube is widely used, but there are some special-shaped steel tubes such as square, rectangle, semicircle, hexagon, equilateral triangle and octagon.
