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Spring materials

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• Springs are manufactured either by hot- or
cold-working processes, depending upon the
size of the material, the spring index, and the
properties desired
• In general, prehardened wire should not be
used if D/d < 4 or if d >1/4 in.
• Winding of the springs induces residual
stresses through bending, but these are
normal to the direction of the torsional working
stresses in the coil spring
• Quite frequently in spring manufacture, they
are relieved after winding, by a mild thermal
treatment

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Spring materials

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• Graph b/w tensile strength and wire diameter
is a straight line for some material. Then

Sut = A/dm

• Use table 10-4 to find m and A.

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Selection of Spring Material…..

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The torsional yield strength can be obtained by assuming that the
tensile yield strength is between 60% and 90% of the tensile
strength. According to the distortion-energy theory, the torsional
yield strength for steels is

0.35Sut  Ssy  0.52Sut

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Spring materials

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Example 10.1

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Solution

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Helical Spring Design for Static Service

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• The preferred range of spring index is
4 ≤ C ≤ 12, with the lower index being more difficult
to form (because of the danger of surface cracking)
and springs with higher indexes tending to tangle
often enough to require individual packing
• The recommended range of active turns is
3 ≤ Na ≤ 15
• To maintain linearity when a spring is about to close, it
is necessary to avoid the gradual touching of coils (due
to non perfect pitch)
• A helical coil spring force-deflection characteristic is
ideally linear, practically, it is nearly so, but not at each
end of the force-deflection curve

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Helical Spring Design for Static Service

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• The designer confines the spring’s operating
point to central 75% of the curve between no
load, F = 0 and closure, F = Fs
• Thus the maximum operating force should be
limited to Fmax≤ 7/8 Fs
• Defining the frictional overrun to closure as ,
where Fs = (1 + )Fmax
• It follows that
Fs = (1+ )Fmax = (1+ )(7/8)Fs
• From the outer equality  = 1/7 = 0.143 = 0.15
• Thus it is recommended that   0.15

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Helical Spring Design for Static Service

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• In addition to the relationships and material properties
for springs, there are some recommended design
conditions to follow, namely
4 ≤ C ≤ 12
3 ≤ Na ≤ 15
  0.15
ns  1.2
• When considering designing a spring for high volume
production, the figure of merit (fom) can be the cost of
the wire from which the spring is wound
• The fom would be proportional to the relative material
cost, weight density, and volume
 2 d 2 N t D For comparison between
fom  (relative _ material _ cos t ) steels, the specific weight 
4
can be omitted
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Design flow chart

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for static loading

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Design Strategy

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• Make a priori decisions, with hard-drawn steel
wire the first choice (relative material cost is
1.0)
• Choose a wire size d
• With all decisions made, generate a column of
parameters, d, D, C, OD or ID, Na, Ls, Lo, (Lo)cr,
ns and fom
• By incrementing wire sizes available, scan the
table of parameters and apply the design
recommendations by inspection
• After wire sizes are eliminated, choose the
spring design with the highest figure of merit

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