11/25/21, 2:42 PM Inch Meter & Inch Dia in Piping
Ashish Makkar
Inch Meter & Inch Dia in Piping
Ashish Makkar
General Manager at MTek Technologies + Follow
Published Oct 20, 2017
In construction projects, both Inch Dia & Inch Metre are generally considered as units
for measurement of quantum of piping job (mainly for welding/ Erection of piping/
hydrotest measurements). Former being denoted by ID of (phi)” or ” and inch metre by
IM respectively; can be understood as below:
Part1:
Consider an 8 inch NB pipe of length say 100 metres. If there are 5 joints of this pipe to
be welded, the quantum of this welding job is calculated as Pipe Dia (in inches) x No.
of joints, i.e, 40 and denoted as 40 Inch dia (ID).
In terms of IM, we say the quantum of job as Pipe Dia (in inches) x No. of Metres, i.e,
800 and denoted as 800 Inch Metre (IM).
Once again, ID is generally taken as unit of measurement (of quantum of job) for
Welding, Radiography, DP test etc and are used as units for payment purposes as well.
IM is considered normally to define the quantum of Piping Erection job, Insulation
(besides Metre cube) and its payment terms.
part 2
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Inch dia in welding is nothing but the multiplication of size of joint x no of joints (of
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that size) which you need to weld during fabrication. Consider a Piping Spool , Say it
has a pipe of 4″ (12 m long), with flange on one end and elbow on another. You are
providing a branch connection of 2″ on it.
Welding inchdia in it is:
Total joints of 4″ in it = 1(pipe with flange) + 1(pipe with elbow) + 1 (it is optional – if
a pipe purchased is of 6m length then you need to weld pipe to pipe to gain 12m length
spool, but if pipe purchased is of 12m length then it is not required).
so inch dia = 4*3 = 12.
Now for branch connection of 2″ on mother pipe of 4″, you need to provide a weldolet,
which will add one joint of 2″ size. so inchdia = 2*1 = 2
So Total inchdia involved in fabrication of that spool = 12 + 2 =
14inchdia.
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Aloke Sana
10mo
Sir, I have an doubt. If the T branch (for larger dia) will be of same size then how will it be
calculated?..
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Bichu C C
2y
Thank you for the concept. I have 1 doubt related to inch dia. If a slip-on flange is to be welded,
how will be the calculation of inch dia as slip on flange has 2 fillet welds to be done, 1 outside
and 1 inside.
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Mohamad Fitrie Sabiran P.Eng
10mo
Hi Mr Bichu,
Regarding your query, did you receive any answer? 1 or 2 to be considered?
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Asim Jabri
2y
Ashish Makkar
Excellent!
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Bomie Meher
2y
How to measure Reducer, Tee, Valve n convert in to IM
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Atif Saleem
2y
SAME QUESTION! DO ANYONE REPLY ON THIS PLEASE?
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Ahmad Abbaszadeh
3y
Hi, Mr. Ashish Makkar, thanks for sharing this article, but I have a question, Do you have any
reference for this kind of calculation for inch-dia or inch-meter? Or this expressions (inch-dia
inch-meter) are just use in industry as usual?
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