Abstract: With the widespread application of bellow compensators in thermal engineering, the corrosion failure of the bellows, a core component, has also attracted great attention. Combined with the failure cases of some bellows, the common corrosion failure forms and influencing factors of stainless steel bellows in the heating pipe networks are summarized, and the preventive measures against corrosion failure of heating bellows from different perspectives summarized. Finally, the limitations and deficiencies of current research on bellow corrosion failure are pointed out, so as to provide ideas and references for future research.