The influence of slenderness ratio and stress concentration in taps on load calculations to thermal expansion in U-shaped compensators of thermal network

This article is about calculations of U-shaped regions of water heat network. The universal calculation algorithm is used for various geometric schemes and simple self-compensating pipeline sections. The influence of slenderness ratio and stress concentration factor in the smooth curved bends on voltages and maximum permissible flight compensated shoulders of U-shaped regions for different geometric confi gurations was taken into account in this work.