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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?😖

[Erik Kostson]

 

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