Background
When water flow is started or stopped faster than the system can respond acoustically, a waterhammer event will occur. These same principles also apply when the flowing medium is steam rather than water. In the case of steam, a steam hammer will occur. Both water and steam hammer events have the potential to cause catastrophic damage.

Benefits
A structured approach to addressing waterhammer solutions provides an efficient and cost effective approach to address your waterhammer issues. Our team of waterhammer experts have over 100 combined years of experience addressing and resolving various types of waterhammer issues.

Example
Waterhammer events are transmitted through the system at the speed of sound of the water-pipe combination. For water in a steel pipe, this is essentially the speed of sound in water (~4600 ft/s or 1400 m/s which is close to 1 mile/s). With this high transmission velocity, pipe segments are loaded in a highly transient manner causing them to shake. As a consequence, significant dynamic loads can be transmitted to the piping supports as well as the system components, i.e. valves, instrumentation, etc.

Solutions
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