Method of welding tubular products of polyarylene sulfide and welded tubular structure

Abstract

A pair of tubular products of polyarylene sulfide having end faces to be welded are welded to each other by heating the end faces by a hot plate in no contact with the end faces to a surface temperature which is at least the melting heat-absorption peak temperature and at most 80.degree. C. above the melting initiation temperature of the polyarylene sulfide, and abutting the end faces under a pressure of 50-1500 kPa when the end faces are at a surface temperature which is at least 10.degree. C. above the melting initiation temperature and not exceeding the melting heat-absorption peak temperature of the polyarylene sulfide. As a result, a welded tubular structure having a weld with a small inside bead but having a sufficiently large weld strength can be obtained with substantially no thermal degradation and at a good operating efficiency.

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