What is the difference between wrought pipe and cast pipe?

Question

What is the difference between wrought pipe and cast pipe?

Answer 1

Wrought iron is commercially pure iron. In contrast to steel, it has a very low carbon content. It is a fibrous material due to the slag inclusions (a normal constituent). This is also what gives it a "grain" resembling wood, which is visible when it is etched or bent to the point of failure. Wrought iron is tough, malleable, ductile and easily welded.

& casting is a process which includes mould,liquid metal & solidification.

Answer 2

Pipe made of tough malleable from of iron which can be shaped by hammering is known as Wrought pipe  and the pipe made of hard alloy of iron which is a rigid sort of iron and is unchalengeable may be termed as cast pipe. It is shaped in moulds.

Answer 3

wrought pipes are formed(ie by metal forming processes) while cast pipes are manufactured by casting process(by pouring molten metal in its mould).the basic difference in their properties is that a wrought pipe has high ductility and less brittleness while the cast pipe posseses the opposite....

Answer 4

raw material used

Answer 5

Wrought pipe and tubing is steel formed into a tube and welded down the seam or drawn seamless pipe or tubing.  It is used for higher pressure application as well as decorative work.  It is normally welded to elbows, etc.

Cast pipe is iron or steel poured into a mold (which may be splitting for centrifugal casting) which hardens in the shape of the mold.  Cast is heavier, thicker walled, weaker and cheaper and is not suitable for higher pressures.  Cast fittings may be threaded or sealed in other ways.