This statement was developed by the Public Health Nursing Definition Document Task Force. under the direction of the leadership of the Public Health Nursing Section of the American. Public Health Association. The statement was adopted by the Public Health Nursing Section.
A Universal Expansion joint is an assembly containing two bellows connected by a centre pipe and equipped with tie rods. Universal Expansion joints are mainly used to absorb any combination of the three basic movements in the piping system. (Axial, Lateral, Angular).
The structural classification system groups joints into three types: synovial, cartilaginous, and fibrous joints, while the functional, or degree of movement, classification system groups joints into diarthrosis, synarthrosis, and amphiarthrosis type joints. Synovial Joints