Bellows is the key structure to compensate and absorb the temperature variation displacement and stress of GIS equipment. It has important engineering value to master the factors that affect the temperature compensation performance. In this paper

the study on the relationship between the temperature compensation ability of GIS bellows and wall thickness

wave height and layout of the bellows is conducted on the basis of analyzing the influencing factor of compensation ability of GIS bellows and by the use of Abaqus software. It is shown by the simulation result of the case that appropriate decrease of the wall thickness or increase of the wave height of the bellows can not only increase compensation amount of the bellows

but also can be beneficial to the stress reduction of the bellows and

within the range of daily temperature variation

the temperature compensation ability of the bellows with distributed layout is superior to that of concentrated layout and the distributed layout is beneficial to reduce the initial deformation due to gravity and internal gas pressure of GIS equipment. The study result can provide guidance for the engineering configuration of GIS bellows.