University of Arizona professor invents lightweight infinite pipeline
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Prof. Ehsani demonstrating the light weight of the pipe (Photo: University of Arizona)
The pipe can be manufactured in different sizes and cross sections (Photo: University of Arizona)
The InfinitiPipe can be manufactured on site (Image: University of Arizona)
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A University of Arizona professor has invented a theoretically infinite pipe that promises to bring down the costs of laying pipelines while reducing environmental damage. Developed by Mo Ehsani, Professor Emeritus of Civil Engineering at the University of Arizona, the new pipe, called InfinitiPipe, is of a lightweight plastic aerospace honeycomb under layers of resin-saturated carbon fiber fabric put together by a new fabricating process that allows pipes to be built in indefinite lengths on site.
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