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Springs
A spring is any elastic body whose function is to collect potential energy by elastic deformation and recover its original shape and dimensions after...
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Radially Constrained Disk Springs
In the current chapter, the calculation of disk springs is studied with free sliding edges and edges with constrained radial motion. The disk springs...
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Disk Springs with Variable Thickness
This chapter concludes the treatment of disk springs. In the current chapter, we study the variable thickness cup spring. The thickness is assumed to...
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Dynamical Behaviors of a Mass Submitted to the Action of Perpendicular Spring and Excitations with Phase Shift
BackgroundIn recent years, interesting results have been obtained on the study of the nonlinear dynamics of translational, rotational and pendulum...
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Springs
Many useful methods of measuring, calculating and assessing torsion bars, coil springs and leave springs are presented. Both linear and progressive...
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Creep and Relaxation of Springs
In this chapter, we study the time-dependent behavior of spring elements under constant and oscillating loading. The common creep laws are...
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Coiling of Helical Springs
In this chapter, the method for calculation of residual stresses and plastic bending and torsion moments for combined bending and torsion loading is...
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Factors Affecting the Fatigue Life of Springs
This chapter examines the effects of mean stress, multiaxial loading, and residual stresses on the fatigue life of springs. We study the fatigue life...
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Dynamic modeling of curved fish bone active camber morphing concept using shallow shell theory and negative-stiffness artificial springs
Existing models for the morphing concept of fish bone active camber (FishBAC) rely on several simplifying assumptions, hindering the accurate...
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Determination of the Interaction Depth Caused by Stress Peening at Leaf Springs
Stress peening is a normal production step in leaf spring production. It enhanced the compressive residual stresses in the spring. The question that...
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Effects of nonlinearity of restoring springs on propulsion performance of wave glider
Wave glider is an unmanned surface vehicle that can directly convert wave energy into forward propulsion and fulfill long-term marine monitoring. A...
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Design and Analysis of a 2-DOF Actuator with Variable Stiffness Based on Leaf Springs
Variable Stiffness Actuator (VSA) is the core mechanism to achieve physical human–robot interaction, which is an inevitable development trend in...
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Design and performance evaluation of multi-helical springs fabricated by Multi Jet Fusion additive manufacturing technology
Springs are mechanical devices which are used quite extensively in different industries and mechanisms. Traditionally, springs have been manufactured...
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Splitting capacity of Eucalyptus globulus beams loaded perpendicular to the grain by connections
In timber structures, knowledge of the splitting capacity of beams loaded perpendicular to the grain by dowel-type connections is of primordial...
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Effect of Passive Springs on Taskspace Stiffness of a Cable-Driven Serial Chain Manipulator
Understanding the end-effector stiffness of a manipulator is an effective tool to interpret manipulators’ interaction capabilities in the taskspace...
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Design, analysis and semi-active control of a quasi-zero stiffness vibration isolation system with six oblique springs
Vibration isolation systems with quasi-zero stiffness (QZS) performance have been widely studied because of their characteristics: high static...
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Coiling of Helical Springs
In this chapter the method for calculation of residual stress and plastic bending and torsion moments for combined bending-torsion load is developed....
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Creep and Relaxation of Springs
In this Chapter, we investigate the time-depending behavior of spring elements under constant and oscillating load. The common creep laws are...
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Factors Affecting the Fatigue Life of Springs
In this chapter, the effects of mean stress, multiaxial loading, and residual stresses on fatigue life of springs are reviewed. We study the fatigue...
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Characteristics of Residual Stress Profiles in Spring Steel Induced by Stress Rolling
Stress peening is a modern technique to enhance the durability of spring. The springs are shot peened under prestress, and after unloading, the...