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Helical or coil springs designed for tension.

A heavy-duty helical spring designed for compression and tension.

The English longbow – a simple but very powerful spring made of yew, measuring 2 m (6 ft 6 in) long, with a 470 N (105 lbf) draw force

Spring characteristics: (1) progressive, (2) linear, (3) degressive, (4) almost constant, (5) progressive with knee

A machined spring incorporates several features into one piece of bar stock

Military boobytrap firing device from USSR (normally connected to a tripwire) showing spring-loaded firing pin

A spring is an elastic object used to store mechanical energy. Springs are usually made out of spring steel. Small springs can be wound from pre-hardened stock, while larger ones are made from annealed steel and hardened after fabrication. Some non-ferrous metals are also used including phosphor bronze and titanium for parts requiring corrosion resistance and beryllium copper for springs carrying electrical current (because of its low electrical resistance).

When a spring is compressed or stretched, the force it exerts is proportional to its change in length. The rate or spring constant of a spring is the change in the force it exerts, divided by the change in deflection of the spring. That is, it is the gradient of the force versus deflection curve. An extension or compression spring has units of force divided by distance, for example lbf/in or N/m. Torsion springs have units of torque divided by angle, such as N·m/rad or ft·lbf/degree. The inverse of spring rate is compliance, that is: if a spring has a rate of 10 N/mm, it has a compliance of 0.1 mm/N. The stiffness (or rate) of springs in parallel is additive, as is the compliance of springs in series.

Depending on the design and required operating environment, any material can be used to construct a spring, so long as the material has the required combination of rigidity and elasticity: technically, a wooden bow is a form of spring.

History

Simple non-coiled springs were used throughout human history e.g.,the bow (and arrow). In the Bronze Age more sophisticated spring devices were used, as shown by the spread of tweezers in many cultures. Ctesibius of Alexandria developed a method for making bronze with spring-like characteristics by producing an alloy of bronze with an increased proportion of tin, and then hardening it by hammering after it is cast.

Coiled springs appeared early in the 15th century, in door locks. The first spring powered-clocks appeared in that century and evolved into the first large watches by the 16th century.

In 1676 British physicist Robert Hooke discovered the principle behind springs' action, that the force it exerts is proportional to its extension, now called Hooke's law.

Types

A spiral torsion spring, or hairspring, in an alarm clock.

A volute spring. Under compression the coils slide over each other, so affording longer travel.

Vertical volute springs of Stuart tank

Tension springs in a folded line reverberation device.

A torsion bar twisted under load

Leaf spring on a truck

Springs can be classified depending on how the load force is applied to them:

• Tension/Extension spring – the spring is designed to operate with a tension load, so the spring stretches as the load is applied to it.
• Compression spring – is designed to operate with a compression load, so the spring gets shorter as the load is applied to it.
• Torsion spring – unlike the above types in which the load is an axial force, the load applied to a torsion spring is a torque or twisting force, and the end of the spring rotates through an angle as the load is applied.
• Constant spring - supported load will remain the same throughout deflection cycle
• Variable spring - resistance of the coil to load varies during compression

They can also be classified based on their shape:

• Coil spring – this type is made of a coil or helix of wire
• Flat spring – this type is made of a flat or conical shaped piece of metal.
• Machined spring – this type of spring is manufactured by machining bar stock with a lathe and/or milling operation rather than coiling wire. Since it is machined, the spring may incorporate features in addition to the elastic element. Machined springs can be made in the typical load cases of compression/extension, torsion, etc.

The most common types of spring are:

• Cantilever spring – a spring which is fixed only at one end.
• Coil spring or helical spring – a spring (made by winding a wire around a cylinder) and the conical spring – these are types of torsion spring, because the wire itself is twisted when the spring is compressed or stretched. These are in turn of two types:
  • Compression springs are designed to become shorter when loaded. Their turns (loops) are not touching in the unloaded position, and they need no attachment points.
    • A volute spring is a compression spring in the form of a cone, designed so that under compression the coils are not forced against each other, thus permitting longer travel.
  • Tension or extension springs are designed to become longer under load. Their turns (loops) are normally touching in the unloaded position, and they have a hook, eye or some other means of attachment at each end.
• Hairspring or balance spring – a delicate spiral torsion spring used in watches, galvanometers, and places where electricity must be carried to partially rotating devices such as steering wheels without hindering the rotation.
• Leaf spring – a flat spring used in vehicle suspensions, electrical switches, and bows.
• V-spring – used in antique firearm mechanisms such as the wheellock, flintlock and percussion cap locks.

Other types include :

• Belleville washer or Belleville spring – a disc shaped spring commonly used to apply tension to a bolt (and also in the initiation mechanism of pressure-activated landmines).
• Constant-force spring — a tightly rolled ribbon that exerts a nearly constant force as it is unrolled.
• Gas spring – a volume of gas which is compressed.
• Ideal Spring – the notional spring used in physics: it has no weight, mass, or damping losses.
• Mainspring – a spiral ribbon shaped spring used as a power source in watches, clocks, music boxes, windup toys, and mechanically powered flashlights
• Negator spring – a thin metal band slightly concave in cross-section. When coiled it adopts a flat cross-section but when unrolled it returns to its former curve, thus producing a constant force throughout the displacement and negating any tendency to re-wind. The commonest application is the retracting steel tape rule.
• Progressive rate coil springs – A coil spring with a variable rate, usually achieved by having unequal pitch so that as the spring is compressed one or more coils rests against its neighbour.
• Rubber band – a tension spring where energy is stored by stretching the material.
• Spring washer – used to apply a constant tensile force along the axis of a fastener.
• Torsion spring – any spring designed to be twisted rather than compressed or extended. Used in torsion bar vehicle suspension systems.
• Wave spring – a thin spring-washer into which waves have been pressed.

Physics

Hooke's law

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As long as they are not stretched or compressed beyond their elastic limit, most springs obey Hooke's law, which states that the force with which the spring pushes back is linearly proportional to the distance from its equilibrium length:

$F=-kx,$

where

x is the displacement vector – the distance and direction the spring is deformed from its equilibrium length.

F is the resulting force vector – the magnitude and direction of the restoring force the spring exerts

k is the rate, spring constant or force constant of the spring, a constant that depends on the spring's material and construction. The negative sign indicates that the force the spring exerts is in the opposite direction from its displacement

Coil springs and other common springs typically obey Hooke's law. There are useful springs that don't: springs based on beam bending can for example produce forces that vary nonlinearly with displacement.

Simple harmonic motion

Mining Engineer (Excluding Oil ) Truman from Alma, loves to spend time knotting, largest property developers in singapore developers in singapore and stamp collecting. Recently had a family visit to Urnes Stave Church. Since force is equal to mass, m, times acceleration, a, the force equation for a spring obeying Hooke's law looks like:

$F=ma\Rightarrow -kx=ma.$

The displacement, x, as a function of time. The amount of time that passes between peaks is called the period.

The mass of the spring is assumed small in comparison to the mass of the attached mass and is ignored. Since acceleration is simply the second derivative of x with respect to time,

$-kx=m\frac{d^{2}x}{d{t}^2}.$

This is a second order linear differential equation for the displacement $x$ as a function of time. Rearranging:

$\frac{d^{2}x}{d{t}^2}+\frac{k}{m}x=0,$

the solution of which is the sum of a sine and cosine:

$x(t)=A\sin \left(t\sqrt{\frac{k}{m}}\right)+B\cos \left(t\sqrt{\frac{k}{m}}\right).$

$A$ and $B$ are arbitrary constants that may be found by considering the initial displacement and velocity of the mass. The graph of this function with $B=0$ (zero initial position with some positive initial velocity) is displayed in the image on the right.

Theory

In classical physics, a spring can be seen as a device that stores potential energy, specifically elastic potential energy, by straining the bonds between the atoms of an elastic material.

Hooke's law of elasticity states that the extension of an elastic rod (its distended length minus its relaxed length) is linearly proportional to its tension, the force used to stretch it. Similarly, the contraction (negative extension) is proportional to the compression (negative tension).

This law actually holds only approximately, and only when the deformation (extension or contraction) is small compared to the rod's overall length. For deformations beyond the elastic limit, atomic bonds get broken or rearranged, and a spring may snap, buckle, or permanently deform. Many materials have no clearly defined elastic limit, and Hooke's law can not be meaningfully applied to these materials. Moreover, for the superelastic materials, the linear relationship between force and displacement is appropriate only in the low-strain region.

Hooke's law is a mathematical consequence of the fact that the potential energy of the rod is a minimum when it has its relaxed length. Any smooth function of one variable approximates a quadratic function when examined near enough to its minimum point as a result of the Taylor series. Therefore, the force—which is the derivative of energy with respect to displacement—will approximate a linear function.

Force of fully compressed spring

$F_{max}=\frac{E{d}^4(L-nd)}{16(1+\nu )(D-d{)}^{3}n}$

where

E – Young's modulus

d – spring wire diameter

L – free length of spring

n – number of active windings

$\nu$ – Poisson ratio

D – spring outer diameter

Zero-length springs

"Zero-length spring" is a term for a specially designed coil spring that would exert zero force if it had zero length. That is, in a line graph of the spring's force versus its length, the line passes through the origin. Obviously a coil spring cannot contract to zero length because at some point the coils will touch each other and the spring will not be able to shorten any more. Zero length springs are made by manufacturing a coil spring with built-in tension, so if it could contract further, the equilibrium point of the spring, the point at which its restoring force is zero, occurs at a length of zero. In practice, zero length springs are made by combining a "negative length" spring, made with even more tension so its equilibrium point would be at a "negative" length, with a piece of inelastic material of the proper length so the zero force point would occur at zero length.

A zero length spring can be attached to a mass on a hinged boom in such a way that the force on the mass is almost exactly balanced by the vertical component of the force from the spring, whatever the position of the boom. This creates a horizontal "pendulum" with very long oscillation period. Long-period pendulums enable seismometers to sense the slowest waves from earthquakes. The LaCoste suspension with zero-length springs is also used in gravimeters because it is very sensitive to changes in gravity. Springs for closing doors are often made to have roughly zero length so that they will exert force even when the door is almost closed, so it will close firmly.

Uses

• Vehicles: Vehicle suspension
• Watches: Balance springs in mechanical timepieces and spring-loaded bars for attaching the bands and the clasps.
• Mini Drill
• Jewelry: Clasp mechanisms.
• Lock mechanisms: Key-recognition and for coordinating the movements of various parts of the lock.
• Pop-open devices: CD players, Tape recorders etc.
• Pens
• Spring mattresses
• Slinky
• Trampoline
• Pogo Stick
• Whammy bar
• Spring reverb
• Buckling spring keyboards
• Upholstery: Upholstery coil springs
• Toy
• Educational
• Airsoft gun
• Firearms

References

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Further reading

• Sclater, Neil. (2011). "Spring and screw devices and mechanisms." Mechanisms and Mechanical Devices Sourcebook. 5th ed. New York: McGraw Hill. pp. 279-299. ISBN 9780071704427. Drawings and designs of various spring and screw mechanisms.
• Parmley, Robert. (2000). "Section 16: Springs." Illustrated Sourcebook of Mechanical Components. New York: McGraw Hill. ISBN 0070486174 Drawings, designs and discussion of various springs and spring mechanisms.

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