Springs (Chapter 10)
SpringTypes
Coil Spring
Compression
Tension
Torsion
Flat Springs
Washer Springs
Other?
Mechanical Springs
Function of springs
Exert Force
Provide flexibility
Store or absorb energy
Lets look at a Coiled Compression Spring
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Helical Spring: Coiled Compression Spring
Helical coil spring with round wire
Equilibrium forces at cut section anywhere in the body of the
spring indicates direct shear and torsion
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Stresses in Helical Springs
Torsional shear and direct shear
Additive (maximum) on inside fiber of
cross-section
Substitute terms
Fig. 101b
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Stresses in Helical Springs
Factor out the torsional stress
d 8FD
1 3
2 D d
Define Spring Index
Define Shear Stress Correction Factor
1 2C 1
Ks 1
2C 2C
Maximum shear stress for helical spring
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Curvature Effect
Stress concentration type of effect on inner fiber due to curvature
Can be ignored for static, ductile conditions due to localized cold-
working
Can account for effect by replacing Ks with Wahl factor or
Bergstrsser factor which account for both direct shear and
curvature effect
Cancelling the curvature effect to isolate the curvature factor
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Deflection of Helical Springs
Use Castiglianos method to relate force and deflection
If C >> 1
Fig. 101a
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Ends of Compression Springs
Fig. 102
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Formulas for Compression Springs With Different Ends
Table 101
Na is the number of active coils
Ne is the number of inactive end coils
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Set Removal
Set removal or presetting is a process used in manufacturing a
spring to induce useful residual stresses.
The spring is made longer than needed, then compressed to solid
height, intentionally exceeding the yield strength.
This operation sets the spring to the required final free length.
Yielding induces residual stresses opposite in direction to those
induced in service.
10 to 30 percent of the initial free length should be removed.
Set removal is not recommended when springs are subject to
fatigue.
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Critical Deflection for Stability
Buckling type of instability can occur in compression springs
when the deflection exceeds the critical deflection ycr
Leff is the effective slenderness ratio
a is the end-condition constant, defined on the next slide
C'1 and C'2 are elastic constants
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End-Condition Constant
The a term in Eq. (1011) is the end-condition constant.
It accounts for the way in which the ends of the spring are
supported.
Values are given in Table 102.
Table 102
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Absolute Stability
Absolute stability occurs when, in Eq. (1010),
C2 / eff
2
1
This results in the condition for absolute stability
For steels, this turns out to be
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Some Common Spring Steels
Hard-drawn wire (0.60-0.70C)
Cheapest general-purpose
Use only where life, accuracy, and deflection are not too
important
Oil-tempered wire (0.60-0.70C)
General-purpose
Heat treated for greater strength and uniformity of properties
Often used for larger diameter spring wire
Music wire (0.80-0.95C)
Higher carbon for higher strength
Best, toughest, and most widely used for small springs
Good for fatigue
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Some Common Spring Steels
Chrome-vanadium
Popular alloy spring steel
Higher strengths than plain carbon steels
Good for fatigue, shock, and impact
Chrome-silicon
Good for high stresses, long fatigue life, and shock
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Strength of Spring Materials
With small wire diameters, strength is a function of diameter.
A graph of tensile strength vs. wire diameter is almost a straight
line on log-log scale.
The equation of this line is
where A is the intercept and m is the slope.
Values of A and m for common spring steels are given in Table
104.
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Constants for Estimating Tensile Strength
Table 104
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Estimating Torsional Yield Strength
Since helical springs experience shear stress, shear yield strength
is needed.
If actual data is not available, estimate from tensile strength
Assume yield strength is between 60-90% of tensile strength
0.6Sut Ssy 0.9Sut
Assume the distortion energy theory can be employed to relate
the shear strength to the normal strength.
Ssy = 0.577Sy
This results in
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Mechanical Properties of Some Spring Wires (Table 105)
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Maximum Allowable Torsional Stresses
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Helical Compression Spring Design for Static Service
Limit the design solution space by setting some practical limits
Preferred range for spring index
Preferred range for number of active coils
where ns is the factor of safety at solid height.
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Helical Compression Spring Design for Static Service
To achieve best linearity of spring constant, preferred to limit
operating force to the central 75% of the force-deflection curve
between F = 0 and F = Fs.
This limits the maximum operating force to Fmax 7/8 Fs
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Design Flowchart for Static Loading
Continue on next slide
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Design Flowchart for Static Loading
Continued from previous slide
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End of Class Notes: Compression Spring
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Critical Frequency of Helical Springs
When one end of a spring
is displaced rapidly, a
wave called a spring surge
travels down the spring.
If the other end is fixed,
the wave can reflect back.
If the wave frequency is
near the natural frequency
of the spring, resonance
may occur resulting in
extremely high stresses.
Catastrophic failure may
Fig. 104
occur, as shown in this
valve-spring from an over-
revved engine.
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Critical Frequency of Helical Springs
The governing equation is the wave equation
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Critical Frequency of Helical Springs
The solution to this equation is harmonic and depends on the given
physical properties as well as the end conditions.
The harmonic, natural, frequencies for a spring placed between
two flat and parallel plates, in radians per second, are
In cycles per second, or hertz,
With one end against a flat plate and the other end free,
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Critical Frequency of Helical Springs
The weight of a helical spring is
The fundamental critical frequency should be greater than 15 to
20 times the frequency of the force or motion of the spring.
If necessary, redesign the spring to increase k or decrease W.
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Fatigue Loading of Helical Compression Springs
Zimmerli found that size, material, and tensile strength have no
effect on the endurance limits of spring steels in sizes under 3/8
in (10 mm).
Testing found the endurance strength components for infinite life
to be
These constant values are used with Gerber or Goodman failure
criteria to find the endurance limit.
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Fatigue Loading of Helical Compression Springs
For example, with an unpeened spring with Ssu = 211.5 kpsi, the
Gerber ordinate intercept for shear, from Eq. (642), is
For the Goodman criterion, it would be Sse = 47.3 kpsi.
Each possible wire size would change the endurance limit since
Ssu is a function of wire size.
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Fatigue Loading of Helical Compression Springs
It has been found that for polished, notch-free, cylindrical
specimens subjected to torsional shear stress, the maximum
alternating stress that may be imposed is constant and
independent of the mean stress.
Many compression springs approach these conditions.
This failure criterion is known as the Sines failure criterion.
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Torsional Modulus of Rupture
The torsional modulus of rupture Ssu will be needed for the
fatigue diagram.
Lacking test data, the recommended value is
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Stresses for Fatigue Loading
From the standard approach, the alternating and midrange forces
are
The alternating and midrange stresses are
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