Flexible joints definition
Flexible joints means joints made with factory made jointing materials, loose collars, rubber rings etc., and which allow some degree of flexing, however small, between adjacent pipes.
Flexible joints means connections between ducts and equipment normally provided to prevent vibration and to allow for thermal movement;
Examples of Flexible joints in a sentence
Flexible joints shall be provided in enclosures at all points where the bus duct terminates at equipment to withstand vibration, expansion/ construction and at suitable intervals in any straight run of the bus duct where expansion and contraction would otherwise result in stress in the supporting structures.
Flexible joints shall be provided on connections to vibrating utilities plant.