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Pipe Roughness Values by Material

This document lists pipe absolute roughness values in both inches multiplied by 10-3 and microns or meters multiplied by 10-6 for various materials. Riveted steel has the highest roughness from 36-360 x 10-3 inches and 915-9150 microns. Fiberglass, drawn tubing made of glass, brass or plastic, copper, aluminum, and PVC all have the lowest roughness of 0.06 x 10-3 inches or 1.5 microns. The document sources the data from various hydraulic and pipe references.

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Pipe Roughness Values by Material

This document lists pipe absolute roughness values in both inches multiplied by 10-3 and microns or meters multiplied by 10-6 for various materials. Riveted steel has the highest roughness from 36-360 x 10-3 inches and 915-9150 microns. Fiberglass, drawn tubing made of glass, brass or plastic, copper, aluminum, and PVC all have the lowest roughness of 0.06 x 10-3 inches or 1.5 microns. The document sources the data from various hydraulic and pipe references.

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  • Pipe Roughness Values

PIPE ROUGHNESS VALUES

Jacques Chaurette p. eng., Fluide Design Inc.


February 2003

Pipe absolute roughness values (RMS)


Material Absolute roughness Absolute roughness
(in x 10-3) (micron or m x 10-6)
Riveted steel 1 36-360 915-9150
Concrete1 12-120 305-3050
Ductile iron2 102 2591
Wood stave1 3.6-7.2 91-183

Galvanized iron1 6 152


Cast iron – asphalt dipped1 4.8 122
Cast iron uncoated1 10 254
Carbon steel or wrought iron1 1.8 45
Stainless steel 1 1.8 45

Fiberglass3 0.2 5
Drawn tubing – glass, brass, 0.06 1.5
plastic1
Copper2 0.06 1.5
Aluminium2 0.06 1.5
PVC2 0.06 1.5
Red brass2 0.06 1.5

Sources : 1. Cameron hydraulic data Book


2. Enginereed Software’s PIPE-FLO software [Link]-
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3. Fiberglass Pipe Handbook, SPI Composites Institute

5764 Monkland avenue, Suite 311, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4A 1E9 Tel: [Link] (7867) Fax: 514.484.2294
E-mail: jchaurette@[Link] Web site: [Link]

5764 Monkland avenue, Suite 311, Montreal, Quebec, Canada H4A 1E9 Tel: 514.484.PUMP (7867) Fax: 514.484.2294 E-mail: jch

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