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L'association Uni-Bell publie sur une base trimestrielle le Uni-Bell PVC News pour l'ensemble de l'Amérique du Nord. L'objectif est d'offrir aux spécificateurs et aux décideurs l'information la plus à jour possible sur l'utilisation et le développement technologique des tuyaux et raccords de PVC. Des articles en français y sont inclus sur une base régulière.

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Volume 31, Number 1        Spring 2008
The Edmonton Story	Trust But Verify Hard Data on Cold Weather Pipe Installation Training Just Got Easier - And Better!	View | Download
Volume 30, Number 2        Fall 2007
PVC Water Pipe Is A Capital Idea	Avon Lake Municipal Utilities Combined Sewer Separation Project Back to Basics: Time Dependent Variables for Flexible Sewer Pipe Rowlett, Texas Encounters Unexpected Sewer Line Repair	View | Download
Volume 30, Number 1        Summer 2007
Training Is Critical for Safe and Reliable Drinking Water Systems	AwwaRF Looks At PVC Pipes' Long-Term Performance The Ohio River Force Main System The Effects of Deflection on Sewer Hydraulics: The Sequel	View | Download
Volume 29, Number 3        Winter 2006
United Water Pennsylvania and the Susquehanna River	Urban Myths Die Hard When Water Quality Matters, PVC Delivers Engineering Students Apply Their Training To Improve Lives	View | Download
Volume 29, Number 2        Fall 2006
Got Scrap?	Uni-Board Board Approves Recycling Position Statement Louisville Water Company: The PVC Pipe Experience Water Works Officials Drawn to PVC Pipe	View | Download
Volume 29, Number 1        Spring 2006
Who Says PVC Can't Be Recycled?	Es La Biopelicula El Gran "Igualador" Hidraulico? Inspection Basics Deep Burial For Municipalities: Why PVC Sewer Pipe is Better Suited	View | Download
Volume 28, Number 2        Winter 2005
The Mojave River Pipeline Project	PVC Force Main Design Example Deflection: What are the Limits? Parlez-Vous Francais?	View | Download
Volume 28, Number 1        Spring 2005
PVC Pipe & the Arts	The Calgary Story Not the New Kid in Town, Seven Decades of PVC Pipe Common Sense and Uncommon Insight, Tapping Tips from a Real Expert	View | Download
Volume 27, Number 2        Summer 2004
Demonstration Shows PVC's Live Load Capabilities	PVC Pipe Recycling Program The Anatomy of a Force Main Pressure Wave Is Slime the Great Hydraulic Equalizer?	View | Download
Volume 27, Number 1        Spring 2004
Engineers Without Borders (TM) and PVC: Building a Better World Together	PVC Pipe Endures Over 10 Million Cycles Quebec City and PVC Pipe (in English and French) Proper Bedding for PVC Pressure Pipe	View | Download
Volume 26, Number 2        Summer 2003
Meet Your Regional Engineers	Infrastructure Funding Gaps on the Horizon PVC Water Pipe in the Midwest: Lincoln Water System New PVC Transmission Pipe Design Philosophy	View | Download
Volume 26, Number 1        Spring 2003
Corrosion Burden Cost	Dealing with Disaster World Summit for Sustainable Development PVC Passes Tests After 15 Years of UV Exposure	View | Download
Volume 25, Number 2        Summer 2002
Debunking Fair Tales	Delivery and Installation Time Critical for 30" Irrigation Project GASB 34 - Poised to End Costly Fairy Tales? Recommenations for Risers and Solutions for Services	View | Download
Volume 25, Number 1        Spring 2002
Changing Times for Water Utilities	Northridge Earthquake Puts PVC's Seismic Capabilities to the Test Corrosion Control: Changing Times for Water Utilities PVC Handbook Now Available on CD	View | Download
Volume 24, Number 2        Summer 2001
Sustainable Infrastructure: It's Our Responsiblity	Calgary's Experience with Corrosion of Water Mains 1970-2000 Alberta City 'Breaks Ground' with 42-Inch DR 35 New Edition Handbook Now Available!	View | Download
Volume 24, Number 1        Spring 2001
PVC Pipe: Helping Others Help Themselves	New Tests and Analysis Serve to Improve Cyclic Design Revised AASHTO Design Method 48" PVC Saves Time, Space and Money on Storm Project	View | Download
Volume 23, Number 2        Summer 2000
Allowable Bury for Large Diameter Pipe: Run the Numbers	Introducing Uni-Bell's New Website PVC Profile Wall Slipliner Rescues Failing HDPE Sewer Ask the Engineer: Pressure Class versus Schedule?	View | Download
Volume 23, Number 1        Spring 2000
22-Year Stress Relaxation And Strain Limit Testing Of PVC Pipes	48" C905 Pipe Helps Community To Grow C905 Case Histories Revisited Industry Positioning to Satisfy Growing Demand	View | Download
Volume 22, Number 2        Summer 1999
Researchers Link HDPE Cracking To Material Quailty	Applying "Structural Materials 101" To Plastic Pipe Oriented PVC Pipe [PVC(O)] Is A Big Hit In Tennessee PVC Pipe Replaces Concrete	View | Download
Volume 22, Number 1        Spring 1999
Vinys Industry Helps House One Hundred Families	Children's Home Receives New PVC Water System Orange County Installs 36" PVC Force Main Which Low Pressure Aire Test Should You Use	View | Download
Volume 21, Number 2        Summer 1998
Building Homes & Hope	Why Does My Pipe Joint Have A Gap PVC Faces Challenges Going 45 Feet Deep Walker Honored For 20 Years Of Service	View | Download
Volume 21, Number 1        Spring 1998
Boy Scouts Explore Wastewater Treatment Jamboree	Backfill Materials Evaluated In Multi-Year Study Force Mains Are Focus Of Special Edition Baton Rouge Successfully Sliplines Sewerlines	View | Download
Volume 20, Number 2        Summer 1997
An Interview with Dr. L. D. McMullen	PVC Is Proven To Be Fox-Friendly In Bakersville Calif. Uni-Bell's New Web Site Is Up And Spinning New Report On PVC Force Main Design.	View | Download
Volume 20, Number 1        Spring 1997
PVC Sewer Pipes SHow Long Term Performance	PVC Sliplinings Solves Sinkable Crisis DIAL 972: Uni-Bell's New Phone And Fax Area Code is (972) NJ Township Receives One Of The Deepest PVC Installations Ever	View | Download
Volume 19, Number 2        Fall 1996
Uni-Bell Celebrating 25 Years	Handbook Now Available In Electronic Format A Special Report Uni-Bell Presents The Facts Of The Matter Randolph, Vermont Looks Downstream With New System	View | Download
Volume 19, Number 1        Spring 1996
Survey Reveals PVC Water Mains Save Money	Air Entrapment: The Other Surge Pressure PVC Profile Wall Finds Home In New York City San Antonio Sliplines 48-Inch Sanitary Sewer Pipe	View | Download
Volume 18, Number 2        Summer 1995
Corrosion Is Pollution	Town Expands Water Pollution Facility What Happens When PVC Goes To Prision 33' Deep Sanitary Sewer Application	View | Download
Volume 17, Number 1        Spring 1994
Nature Relies on Chlorine and So Do We	Why Is That PVC Purple? Ductile Iron, Why A New Standard? Understanding Transients In Pipeline Systems	View | Download
Volume 16, Number 1        Summer 1993
Evaluation Finds Environmental and Safety Benefits	Which PVC Pressure Pipe Standard Do I Use? Tight Joints Are Needed In Storm Drainage Oklahoma City's First Large Scale PVC Sliplining Project	View | Download
Volume 15, Number 1        Summer 1992
Abrasion Study Grades PVC Over Concrete	New PVC Fittings Are a Match for C900 PVC Pipe Profile Pipes Under Shallow Cover Understanding PVC Pressure Capacity	View | Download
Volume 14, Number 1        Summer 1991
Is PVC Pipe Strain Limited After All These Years?	Big PVC Is A Hit! PVC Compounding Primer A Unique Solution to an Old Problem In Quebec	View | Download
Volume 13, Number 1        Summer 1990
A History of Success	Durability is the Key to Lowering Infrastructure Costs PVC Helps Gateway Arch The Early History of PVC	View | Download
Volume 12, Number 1        Summer 1989
15 Year Old PVC Sewer Pipe Passes the Test of Time	PVC Force Main Design is Key to Long-Term Performance Back to Basics: Pipe Stiffness Fundamentals Batavia Breaks Ground With Larger Diameter PVC Pressure Pipe Installation	View | Download
Volume 11, Number 1        Summer 1988
Sewer Evaluation Says Yes To PVC	AASHTO Adopts PVC Pipe Design Specification Three Too Many A Discussion of PVC Pipe Under a Vacuum	View | Download
Volume 10, Number 1        Summer 1987
PVC Pressure Pipe Excavation Reveals 22 Years Old and Fit as a Fiddle	Data Has Verified Long-Term Strength Design for Large Diameter Pressure Pipe University of California Survey Confirms Water Main Performance	View | Download
Volume 9, Number 1        Spring 1986
Dade County Accepts PVC Sewers	Steep Slope Sewer Construction Criteria Arlington Elects PVC For Extra Deep Sewer Load-Deflection Criteria: How Do They Measure Up?	View | Download
Volume 8, Number 1        Summer 1985
Chicago Evaluates PVC	Large Diameter Pipe Standard Published Proctor Density: Confusion May Prove Costly 27 Inch Sewer Pipe Solves Capcity Problem	View | Download
Volume 7, Number 1        Summer 1984
Study Reveals Reasons Why Water Pipes Fail	The Rewards of Excellence PVC Pipeline Solves Water Problem Manning Equation for Partially Full Circular Pipe	View | Download
Volume 6, Number 3        Fall 1983
PVC Chosen For 645-Mile Water System In Egypt's Land of the Pharaohs	Proper Manning's "n" For Sanitary Sewer Design PVC Sewer Pipe Savings Account Structural / Ring Deflection	View | Download
Volume 6, Number 2        Summer 1983
Focus: Infrastructure (What Lies Below?)	Testing Tips From A Contractor Allowable Leakage Designed for Obsolescence Breaking the Not So Secret PVC Pipe Code	View | Download
Volume 6, Number 1        Spring 1983
ASCE WPCF Introduce Major Revision to Sewer Design Construction Manual	The Deflection Failure Myth Town of Quincy Installs Its First C900 Pipe PVC Big In Boston	View | Download
Volume 5, Number 2        Summer 1982
New PVC Water Mains for Romeo, MI	Differences Revealed In Air Test Comparisons Design for Water Hammer Changes In Strength of Pressurized PVC Pipe With Time	View | Download
Volume 5, Number 1        Spring 1982
Rural PVC Water System Will Serve Two Counties	PVC Combustion - A Burning Issue? Replacing Water Pipe In Built-Up Areas Direct Tapping Progress	View | Download
Volume 4, Number 3        Fall 1981
170,000 Foot All-PVC Sewer System Is One of the Largest In US	Infiltration / Inflow Program Is Evaluated by EPA Pipe Installation Accidents Are Easily Preventable Technical Report on UV Aging	View | Download
Volume 4, Number 2        Summer 1981
1000-Mile Pipeline To Serve Sioux	ASTM Recommends 7.5% EPA Proposes Legislative Reforms For Construction Grants In Texas, Black Gumbo Soil Can Buck Like A Rodeo Bull	View | Download
Volume 4, Number 1        Spring 1981
Concerning PVC Sewer Maintenance	Pipe Joints: Insist on the Best Rural Water System In Canada Uses PVC Pipe New York Town Replaces Cast Iron With PVC	View | Download
Volume 3, Number 3        Fall 1980
PVC Keeps St. Louis Riverfront Scenic	ASTM Specs Aproved For Large Sewer Pipe The Effects of Ultra-Violet Exposure On PVC Pipe Bedford, Texas Has Great PVC Track Record	View | Download
Volume 3, Number 2        Summer 1980
Proto Averages 300 Feet Per Day	Pressure Rating, Pressure Class... What's the Big Difference? Deflection Mechanism of PVC Pipe PVC Pipe Job Completed Ahead of Schedule	View | Download
Volume 3, Number 1        Spring 1980
Troy Installs 21-Inch PVC Pipeline	Installation Suggestions For Supported Trenches Direct Tapping: A Better Way If You Know the Way Exhaust Soot: Don't Smoke It In Your Pipe!	View | Download
Volume 2, Number 2        Fall 1979
Raymore System Uses Large Diameter PVC	What Is the Inside Pipe Diameter? Texas Contractor Installs FmHA-Funded Project Are Your Low-Pressure Air Test Requirements Current?	View | Download
Volume 2, Number 1        Spring 1979
Grand Canyon Sewer Installation	Federal Funding Goals Installation of PVC Sewer Pipe Thawing Frozen PVC Service Lines	View | Download
Volume 1, Number 2        Fall 1978
60-Mile PVC Sewer Pipe Installation Is Largest in Texas FmHA History	A Brief History of PVC Pipe Longitudinal Bending of PVC Pipe Some Practical Construction Considerations	View | Download
Volume 1, Number 1        Spring 1978
PVC Solves Sewer Problem In Little Elm, Texas	What Is A Uni-Bell? PVC Pipe Deflection: How Much Is Too Much? Crossing the Creek	View | Download

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