GENERAL SOLUTION OF THE OVERALL BENDING OF FLEXIBLE CIRCULAR RING SHELLS WITH MODERATELY SLENDER RATIO AND APPLICATIONS TO THE BELLOWS ( Ⅱ )- CALCULATION FOR OMEGA-SHAPED BELLOWS

( Ⅱ ) is one of the applications of ( Ⅰ ), in which the angular stiffness, the lateral stiffness and the corresponding stress distributions of Omega-shaped bellows were calculated, and the present results were compared with those of the other theories and experiments. It is shown that the non-homogeneous solution of ( Ⅰ ) can solve the pure bending problem of the bellows by itself, and be more effective than by the theory of slender ring shells; but if a lateral slide of the bellows support exists the non- homogeneous solution will no longer entirely satisfy the boundary conditions of the problem, in this case the homogeneous solution of ( Ⅰ ) should be included, that is to say, the full solution of ( Ⅰ )can meet all the requirements.