Learn more about the operation details of universal expansion joints, which require only light anchors and minimum guiding.
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Learn more about the operation details of universal expansion joints, which require only light anchors and minimum guiding.
Watch as the Piping Tech team’s largest expansion joint, 178 inches in diameter, begins its journey to Virginia.
178 in. Expansion Joint
Watch as the Piping Tech team’s largest expansion joint, 178 inches in diameter, begins its journey to Virginia.
The team at Piping Tech are experts at in the production and design of gimbal expansion joints. Learn more in this webinar!
Gimbal Expansion Joints
The team at Piping Tech are experts at in the production and design of gimbal expansion joints. Learn more in this webinar!
Learn more the expansion joint with this timelapse video from Piping Tech.
Duct work assemblies can include fabricated elbows, tees, straight sections of duct work, fabric or metallic expansion joints and can be rectangular or round.

Can duct work include expansion joints?
The effective diameter of the bellows is the mean diameter of the convolutions.

What is the effective diameter of the bellows?
Heat Exchanger shell bellows are used on fixed tube sheet heat exchangers. Bellows deflection is only axial and can be either extension or compression depending on the differential expansion of shell and tubes. In most cases the tubes are hotter than the shell, moreover tube material is sometimes high alloy, i.e. Stainless steel or nickel alloy, which expands about 50% more than carbon steel.

What is a heat exchanger bellows?
Heat Exchanger shell bellows are used on fixed tube sheet heat exchangers. Bellows deflection is only axial and can be either extension or compression depending on the differential expansion of shell and tubes. In most cases the tubes are hotter than the shell, moreover tube material is sometimes high alloy, i.e. Stainless steel or nickel alloy, which expands about 50% more than carbon steel.
