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In this paper, the large deflection response of a circular mesh tube under pure bending was investigated by using FE analysis. In the previous study[Nakamura, T., Ushijima, K., Evaluation of large deflection response of circular mesh tubes, Transaction of the JSME (in Japanese), Vol. 88, No. 915 (2022)], the effect of the ovalization across the cross-section on the bending response was neglected, but in this study, the influence of cross-sectional flattening on the nonlinear bending moment versus curvature was taken into consideration. There are three reasons for arising the maximum bending moment, but in this paper, we mainly focused on the two mechanisms (the large flattening response in elastic deformation and the plastic yielding behaviour) to the maximum bending moment. Based on our FE analysis, we proposed theoretical equations for predicting the maximum bending moment as a function of tube geometries and material parameters such as Poisson’s ratio and the plastic yielding stress.

In this paper, the large deflection of a circular mesh tube was investigated by using a finite element method. During this investigation, it is assumed that the tube is deformed elastically, and its structural nonlinearity due to large deflection was considered. In addition, a theoretical model of an arc-shaped beam is proposed in order to predict the equivalent stiffness. The equivalent stiffness can be used to estimate the nonlinear large deflection response of the tube. In particular, the effects of the number of spirals and the number of turns on the prediction accuracy was discussed.