Spring Design
Spring Design
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Renewable Energy We can expand the spring constant k as a function of the
material properties of the spring. Doing so and solving for the
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spring displacement gives,
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Industrial Laser where G is the material shear modulus, na is the number of active coils, and D and d
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are defined in the drawing. The number of active coils is equal to the total number of
coils nt minus the number of end coils n* that do not help carry the load,
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offers for efunda users. The value for n* depends on the ends of the spring. See the following illustration for
different n* values:
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The maximum shear stress τmax in a helical spring occurs on the inner face of the
spring coils and is equal to,
where W is the Wahl Correction Factor which accounts for shear stress resulting
from spring curvature,
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