Mechanical springs, by A.M. Wahl

Mechanical springs, by A.M. Wahl


General considerations in mechanical spring design --
Spring materials: description and physical properties --
Fatigue properties of springs and spring materials --
Elevated-temperature properties of springs and spring materials --
General design considerations for helical compression or extension --
Aids in helical spring design: tables, charts, tolerances --
Practical selection and design of cold-wound helical compression springs --
Design of hot-wound compression or extension springs --
Helical extension spring design --
Design of square- or rectangular-bar helical springs --
Helical torsion springs --
Spiral, power, and neg'ator springs. --
Coned-disk or Belleville springs --
Flat and leaf springs --
Volute springs --
Ring springs --
Rubber springs and mountings --
Torsion-bar springs --
Theory for helical extension or compression springs --
Open-coiled helical springs with large deflections --
Theory for square- and rectangular-bar helical springs under axial loading --
Plastic-flow effects due to presetting in helical springs --
Rational method of analysis for fatigue or repeated loading of helical springs --
Buckling and lateral loading of helical compression springs --
Vibration and impact effects in helical springs --
Helical torsion spring theory --
Spiral spring theory --
Coned- or flat-disk spring theory --
Radially tapered disk spring theory.

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