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This document discusses the design of mechanical springs, including defining different types of springs and their applications, materials used for springs, terms used in compression spring design, stresses and deflection calculations for helical springs, and providing an example design problem for a helical compression spring. Spring design involves selecting appropriate materials and geometries to achieve desired load and deflection characteristics while ensuring stresses remain below maximum allowable values.

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ME374 Module 4

This document discusses the design of mechanical springs, including defining different types of springs and their applications, materials used for springs, terms used in compression spring design, stresses and deflection calculations for helical springs, and providing an example design problem for a helical compression spring. Spring design involves selecting appropriate materials and geometries to achieve desired load and deflection characteristics while ensuring stresses remain below maximum allowable values.

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MACHINE DESIGN 1

Instructor: Engr. Danielle D. Cabaña, MEng.


CEA – Mechanical Engineering
Cebu Institute of Technology - University
MODULE 4
DESIGN OF SPRINGS
Intended Learning Outcomes

ILO1: Able to identify the types of mechanical


springs and its applications.
ILO2: Able to identify the materials used for
mechanical springs.
ILO3: Able to design mechanical springs for
compressive and tensile applications.
Introduction
A spring is defined as an elastic body, whose function is to distort
when loaded and to recover its original shape when the load is
removed. The various important applications of springs are as follows:
1. To cushion, absorb or control energy due to either shock or
vibration as in car springs, railway buffers, air-craft landing gears,
shock absorbers and vibration dampers.
2. To apply forces, as in brakes, clutches and springloaded valves.
3. To control motion by maintaining contact between two elements as
in cams and followers.
4. To measure forces, as in spring balances and engine indicators.
5. To store energy, as in watches, toys, etc.
Types of Spring
1. Helical Spring The helical springs are made up of a wire coiled in the
form of a helix and is primarily intended for compressive or tensile loads. The
cross-section of the wire from which the spring is made may be circular,
square or rectangular.
2. Conical and volute springs. The conical and volute springs, as shown in
the figure, are used in special applications where a telescoping spring or a
spring with a spring rate that increases with the load is desired.
3. Torsional Springs These springs may be of helical or spiral type as
shown in the figure. The helical type may be used only in applications where
the load tends to wind up the spring and are used in various electrical
mechanisms. The spiral type is also used where the load tends to increase the
number of coils and when made of flat strip are used in watches and clocks.
5. Laminated or Leaf Springs The laminated or leaf spring (also known as
flat spring or carriage spring) consists of a number of flat plates (known as
leaves) of varying lengths held together by means of clamps and bolts. These
are mostly used in automobiles.

6. Disc and Belleville Springs These springs consist of a number of conical


discs held together against slipping by a central bolt or tube. These springs are
used in applications where high spring rates and compact spring units are
required.
Materials used in Springs
The material of the spring should have high fatigue strength, high ductility,
high resilience and it should be creep resistant. It largely depends upon the
service for which they are used i.e. severe service, average service or light
service.
• Severe service means rapid continuous loading where the ratio of minimum
to maximum load (or stress) is one-half or less, as in automotive valve
springs.
• Average service includes the same stress range as in severe service but with
only intermittent operation, as in engine governor springs and automobile
suspension springs.
• Light service includes springs subjected to loads that are static or very
infrequently varied, as in safety valve springs.
Values of allowable shear stress, Modulus of elasticity and Modulus
of rigidity for various spring materials.
Standard wire gauge (SWG) number and
corresponding diameter of spring wire.
Terms used in Compression Springs

1. Solid length. When the compression spring is compressed until the


coils come in contact with each other, then the spring is said to be
solid.
2. Free length. The free length of a compression spring, as shown in
the figure, is the length o the spring in the free or unloaded condition.
3. Spring index. The spring index is defined as the ratio of the mean
diameter of the coil to the diameter of the wire. Mathematically,

4. Spring rate. The spring rate (or stiffness or spring constant) is


defined as the load required per unit deflection of the spring.
Mathematically,
5. Pitch. The pitch of the coil is defined as the axial distance between
adjacent coils in uncompressed state. Mathematically,

Note: In designing a tension spring, the minimum gap between two coils when
the spring is in the free state is taken as 1 mm. Thus, the free length of the
spring,
End Connections for
Compression Helical Springs
The end connections for compression helical springs are suitably formed in
order to apply the load.
Total number of turns, solid length and free
length for different types of end connections.
Stresses in Helical Springs of
Circular Wire
Maximum shear stress induced in the wire,
The Wahl’s stress factor (K) may be considered as composed of two sub-
factors, KS and KC, such that
K = KS × KC
where KS = Stress factor due to shear, and
KC = Stress concentration factor due to curvature.
The values of K for a given spring index (C) may be obtained from the graph
as shown in

Wahl’s stress factor for helical springs.


Deflection of Helical Springs of
Circular Wire
The deflection of the spring can be calculated as:

and the stiffness of the spring or spring rate,


Exercise 4:
1. What are a Wahl’s Stress factor and a Spring Index?
2. Derive the equation in finding the maximum stress induced in the
helical spring circular wire.
3. Derive the equation in finding the deflection of the helical spring
circular wire.
4. Design a helical compression spring for a maximum load of 1000 N
for a deflection of 25 mm using the value of spring index as 5. The
maximum permissible shear stress for spring wire is 420 MPa and
modulus of rigidity is 84 kN/mm2.
5. Explain the total deflection of helical spring in series. In parallel.
6. A close coiled helical compression spring of 12 active coils has a
spring stiffness of k. It is cut into two springs having 5 and 7 turns.
Determine the spring stiffnesses of resulting springs.

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