抄録
Flexible tubes are mechanical devices for absorbing energy or displacement in structures. They are widely used as expansion joints to ease thermal expansion, vibration, axial displacement and so on. Most of them consist of tubular bellows made of stainless steel with covering braids. In the present study, the characteristics of deformation and stress in a-shaped and U-shaped stainless bellows generated by internal pressure and axial loads are examined by numerical analysese.
