Engineering:Stave (wood)

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Short description: Strips of wood used to make barrels and other circular wooden objects
Wooden barrels made of multiple staves.
A wood stave pipeline for a hydropower application.

File:Yakima Project - Wood stave pipe line - Washington - NARA - 294748.tif A stave is a narrow length of wood with a slightly bevelled edge to form the sides of barrels, tanks, tubs, vats and pipelines, originally handmade by coopers.[1] They have been used in the construction of large holding tanks and penstocks at hydro power developments.[2] They are also used in the construction of certain musical instruments with rounded bodies or backs.[3][4]

See also

  • Rubicon Hydroelectric Scheme, which has wood stave penstocks on operating power stations
  • Lake Margaret Power Station, which had a wood stave penstock replaced in 2010

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