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Conical spring’s stiffness

    • September 26, 2024 at 3:30 am
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      How can a conical spring's stiffness change when it undergoes significant deformation? I imported the built-in conical spring from SolidWorks into ANSYS Workbench and applied a certain deformation within the elastic range, but its stiffness remained constant, which is inconsistent with theory. What should I do?😖

    • September 26, 2024 at 6:42 am
      ErKo
      Ansys Employee

       

      Hi

      We have had similar questions in the past in the forum – search the forum for these posts.

       

      Also a paper shows when and how the spring becomes nonlinear and in which regime (depending on the type of conical spring).

      The paper is called:

      ’Optimal design of conical springs'

      Hope this helps.

      All the best

      Erik

       

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