• 오토저널
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• 제9권4호
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• pp.61-68
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• 1987

The Bellows Joint which was used as a absorber or safety equipment to prevent the deformation or fracture of a structure, have been analyzed by the F.E.M using axi-symmetric conical frustum element. Using the F.E.M the general behavior of Bellows Joint corrugation can be investigated easily, and the stability of the analysis be guaranteed. In annular type corrugation, the F.E.M results were agreed with those of other theoretical analyses, but in the U type corrugation, the F.E.M results were more acceptable than those of others.

• 대한기계학회논문집
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• 제19권6호
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• pp.1439-1450
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• 1995

Bellows is a familiar component in piping systems as it provides a relatively simple means of absorbing thermal expansion and providing system flexibility. In routine piping flexibility analysis by finite element methods, bellows is usually considered to be straight pipe runs modified by an appropriate flexibility factor; maximum stresses are evaluated using a corresponding stress concentration factor. The aim of this study is to develop a bellows finite element, which similarly includes more complex shell type deformation patterns. This element also does not require flexibility or stress factors, but evaluates more detailed deformation and stress patterns. The proposed bellows element is a 3-D, 2-noded line element, with three degrees of freedom per node and no bending. It is formulated by including additional 'internal' degrees of freedom to account for the deformation of the bellows corrugation; specifically a quarter toroidal section of the bellows, loaded by axial force, is considered and the shell type deformation of this is include by way of an approximating trigonometric series. The stiffness of each half bellows section may be found by minimising the potential energy of the section for a chosen deformation shape function. An experiment on the flexibility is performed to verify the reliability for bellows finite element.

• 소음진동
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• 제9권2호
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• pp.331-339
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• 1999

This paper presents the simplified formulas for calculating the fundamental frequencies of the cantilevered bellows in the axial and lateral directions. The frequencies of the bellow are evaluated based on analogies with those of the beam. It is shown that the results calculated by the simplified formulas are in good agreement with those obtained from FEM analysis and the experiment.

• 한국자동차공학회논문집
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• 제3권6호
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• pp.96-111
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• 1995

A bellows is a component installed in the automobile exhaust system to reduce the impact from an engine. It's stiffness has a great influence on the natural frequency of the system. Therefore, it must be designed to keep the specified stiffness that requires in the system. This study present the finite element analysis of U-typed bellows using a curved conical frustum element and the shape optimal design with specified stiffness. The finite element analysis is verified by comparing with the experimental results. In the shape optimal design, the weight is considered as the cost function. The specified stiffness from the system design is transformed to equality constraints. The formulation has inequality constraints imposed on the fatigue limit, the natural frequencies, the buckling load and the manufacturing conditions. A procedure for shape optimization adopts a thickness, a corrugation radius, and a length of annular plate as optimal design variables. The external loading conditions include the axial and lateral loads with a boundary condition fixed at an end of the bellows. The recursive quadratic programming algorithm is selected to solve the problem. The result are compared with the existing bellows, and the characteristics of the bellows is investigated through the optimal design process. The optimized shape of the bellows are expected to give quite a good guideline to the practical design.

• 한국초전도ㆍ저온공학회논문지
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• 제25권4호
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• pp.32-39
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• 2023

One of the main problems faced in developing India's first HTS power cable was that of shrinkage in length of the double-walled vacuum-insulated cryostat. The shrinkage was due to the evacuation of the annular vacuum space which results in a shorter working cable length. This work reports experimentally observed contraction during evacuation and analyses corrugated pipes/bellows which house the cable core of HTS cables. The effect of corrugation geometry including length, corrugation pitch and depth, diameters of corrugated pipes and thicknesses of pipes is studied numerically to realize the degree of shrinkage due to vacuum as well as chill down. Finally, necessary length compensation and associated cost is determined to tackle the shrinkage issue.

• 한국구조물진단유지관리공학회 논문집
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• 제28권1호
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• pp.39-45
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• 2024

경주 및 포항지진으로 인한 지하매설배관의 파열 및 누수가 발생하여 내진 안전성 확보의 중요성이 증대되고 있다. 배관시스템의 내진 확보를 위해 금속 벨로우즈 신축관이음이 적용되고 있다. 금속 벨로우즈는 일련의 주름 형상으로 제작되어 비교적 낮은 강성으로 유연하게 변형으로부터 대응한다. 금속 벨로우즈의 목적에 따라 다양한 주름 형상과 겹 수로 제작되고 이와 관련한 다양한 연구가 수행되었다. 하지만 산높이가 복합적인 벨로우즈의 전단 거동에 대한 내진성능을 평가한 연구는 미비하다. 따라서 본 연구는 복합적인 산 높이로 구현된 벨로우즈의 전단 내진성능을 분석하기 위한 단조하중실험, 점증반복하중실험 및 피로반복실험을 수행하였다. 실험은 한 겹 및 세 겹으로 제작된 벨로우즈를 대상으로 수행하였으며, 한 겹 보다 세 겹으로 제작된 벨로우즈의 최대 변형 및 피로 수명이 높은 것으로 평가되었다. 하지만 세 겹의 벨로우즈는 내압에 비해 높은 강성으로 주름산의 변형이 더 낮은 변위에서 발생하며, 복합적인 주름산의 높이와 관련하여 특정 조건에서는 누수가 빠르게 발생하였다. 피로 수명은 낮은 변형률에서 많은 겹 수의 벨로우즈가 높게 평가되었고, 높은 변형률에서는 동일한 피로 수명으로 수렴하였다.