Victaulic is a company that provides piping joining solutions using grooved pipe and fittings. They have over 85 years of experience innovating piping joining methods. Victaulic offers a complete product line of over 10,000 rigid and flexible couplings, fittings, valves, and accessories for shipbuilding and offshore applications. Their grooved joining method provides benefits like reduced installation time and costs, improved safety, and the ability to join pipe in limited spaces.

1. The Victaulic System
For Shipbuilding & Offshore
Piping Applications

2. Victaulic Company
85+ years of Innovation
• Founded on innovation and new product development
• British War Department sought faster way to join pipe
in Word War 1
– Rapid deployment of water and fuel to front lines
• VICTAULIC company name
– “VICTory Joint” for use on hydrAULICS
Victaulic Today
• 4,000 Employees
• Privately held
• Global manufacturing
– North America, Europe, Asia
• 3,000 points of distribution
worldwide

3. Victaulic – A Proven Solution for Shipbuilding
• Products approved
by International
Association of
Classification Societies
• Global installations
over the past 30+ years

4. Anatomy of a Groove
The grooved method assembly
involves three basic concepts:
– A pressure-responsive gasket that
creates a leak-tight seal
– Couplings that hold the pipe together
and;
– Bolts and nuts that secure the
couplings to the pipe.
Gasket
– C-shaped design
– EPDM (ethylene propylene diene
monomer) for water (to +110°C)
– Nitrile compound gasket for oil
services (to +82°C).

5. Complete Product Offering
10,000 + Products
• Rigid and Flexible Couplings
• Fittings and Adapters
• Valves
• Pipe Preparation Tools
• Accessory Piping System Products
Materials
• Steel
• Stainless Steel
• Copper
• Ductile Iron
• Copper Nickel
• PVC
• CPVC
• HDPE

6. Rigid vs. Flexible Couplings
• Rigid coupling :
– Similar with welding or
flanging
• Flexible coupling :
– Flat bolt pads provide flexible
joint
– Provides effective stress relief,
vibration attenuation

7. Why Use Victaulic on your ships?
• Reduce total installed costs
• Drastically reduce fabrication time
• Faster installation
• Easier on-board installation and maintenance with less space required
• 58% reduction in weight compared to flanged
• Improve safety by eliminating costly fire watch and hazardous flames
• Greater working pressures than other joining methods
• Improved inventory control

8. Shipboard Piping Applications
Victaulic products approved for shipboard piping
system applications include:
• Fire Main & Sprinklers
• Hot and Cold Fresh
Water & Deck Wash
• Seawater Systems
• Sanitary & Waste
Systems
• Air Conditioning
• Ballast Systems
• Bilge Systems
• Engine Water Cooling
• Cargo Oil Systems
• Bulk Cement
• Deck Drains
• Low Pressure Mud
• Vacuum
• Auxiliary Pump Room
• Compressed Air System
• Sounding Tube
• Vents and Overflows
• Air Piping
• Lube Oil Systems
• Inert Gas

9. Flexibility Advantages
• Up to 45% increase in
attenuation
• Permanent connection
• No anchors/tie rods
• Fatigue advantage
• Accommodates
vibration/noise and
expansion/contraction

10. Total Installed Weight
Victaulic Coupling versus Flanges
(Comparison based on one coupling & two flanges)
105
33.7
9.6
41.4
15.5
3.2
0 25 50 75 100
500mm / 20"
300mm / 12"
100mm / 4" S/77 Coupling
PN10 Slip-On Flange
Weight in Kg.
PipeSize

11. Victaulic versus Competitive Joining Systems
Installed Labor Comparison
(Includes Bolt up and Welding)
(Make On & Make Up)
0
2
4
6
8
10
12
14
16
50mm / 2" 200mm / 8" 600mm / 24"
Pipe Size
ManHoursPerPipeConnection
Flanges PN10 (two)
and bolts
Victaulic Coupling

12. Accommodation for Limited Spaces

13. Joining galvanized pipes

14. Deck or wall penetration