Bending Stresses in Curved Tubes of Rectangular Cross-Section

1 January 1923

journal article
conference paper
Published by ASME International in Transactions of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers

Vol. 45, 135-140
https://doi.org/10.1115/1.4058245

Abstract

This paper analyzes the stresses in bent tubes of rectangular cross-section and shows that in the case of thin tubes the distortion due to bending results in greater flexibility and less strength than given by the usual formulas. In an appendix an approximate solution of the problem is obtained by a consideration of the potential energy of deformation.

Keywords

DEFORMATION
POTENTIAL ENERGY
STRESS
BENDING (STRESS)