ABSTRACT
In a case of a bent thin-walled conical tube, the usual two-member formula for shear stresses leads to infinite stress values. This incorrect result means that the existing technical theory of shear stresses in bending needs to be corrected. The corresponding correction is presented in the previous author’s paper. The present paper continues previous study and provides some justification for the assumptions made earlier. By comparing calculations by means of analytical formulas with numerical solutions of the problem for specific section forms, it is shown that for different laws of section change along the rod axis different approximate formulas are to be used.
