DOM tubing is excellent for fabricating structures including frames for dragsters, motorcycles, cars, fences, railings, tracks for amusement rides, telescoping poles, support struts, works of art, etc., as well as high/low pressure or vacuum tubes for pneumatic and hydraulic applications.
There thousands of things that can be built with it limited only by imagination.
The catch is, when using it for some application where failure could result in death or maiming great care must be used in selecting the tubing and in properly analyzing the design based on any potential weakness that may exist.
For instance in the case of explosive pressures the material should have a safety factor of 4. That simply means the design must be 4 times stronger than it would need to be for normal pressure applications.
Equally important for dangerous applications is obtaining the material certifications and verifying that the tubing delivered and the certifications go together.
There thousands of things that can be built with it limited only by imagination.
The catch is, when using it for some application where failure could result in death or maiming great care must be used in selecting the tubing and in properly analyzing the design based on any potential weakness that may exist.
For instance in the case of explosive pressures the material should have a safety factor of 4. That simply means the design must be 4 times stronger than it would need to be for normal pressure applications.
Equally important for dangerous applications is obtaining the material certifications and verifying that the tubing delivered and the certifications go together.