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Spring Constant Estimation Lab Exercise

The document discusses estimating the spring constant of a specimen under tension. It provides material properties of five materials and formulas to calculate the rigidity modulus, deflection, stiffness, and flexibility factor of a spring given its diameter, wire diameter, number of turns, and applied load.

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Spring Constant Estimation Lab Exercise

The document discusses estimating the spring constant of a specimen under tension. It provides material properties of five materials and formulas to calculate the rigidity modulus, deflection, stiffness, and flexibility factor of a spring given its diameter, wire diameter, number of turns, and applied load.

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Strength of Materials Laboratory

Exercise 3 Estimation of spring constant under tension for a given specimen

Following table gives material properties of five different materials

(E) Young's (ν) Poisson's Yield stress (σy) (G) Shear Modulus
Team Material
modulus (GPa) ratio (MPa) (GPa) (G = E/(2(1+ν))

1 steel 200 0.3 350 ?


2 Aluminium 70 0.35 30 ?
3 copper 120 0.34 50 ?
4 titanium 100 0.33 300 ?
5 nickel 190 0.32 70 ?
While strectching the spring undergoes twisting or torsion and hence the formulae that were derived
for torsion of a circular shaft can be utilized for finding out the deflection of the spring. In simple
terms, springs when stretched is subjected to a change in their shape and the volume remain remains
constant and shear stresses are responsible for this kind of deformation.

Given Data

Spring coil diameter (D) is 30 mm

Diameter of the spring wire (d) is 4 mm

No of turns (n) is 18

Formulae used

64WR3 n
Rigidity modulus (G) = GPa (1)
δd4

64𝑊𝑅 3 𝑛
From equation (1) deflection, 𝛿 = (2)
𝐺𝑑4

Stiffness S = W/δ (3)


Flexibility factor a = 1/S = δ/W (4)

Procedure

1. Calculate the rigidity modulus of the given specimen using the data provided in the table
2. Substitute the calculated rigidity modulus (G) in equation (2) to find the deflection for the
given load
3. Use the load and deflection values to draw the load versus deflection graph with deflection in
x-axis and load in y-axis

Table 1 Load and deflection of the spring

Sl. Weight in Kg Load, W Deflection Stiffness,


No. (In Newtons) (mm) S=W
64𝑊𝑅 3𝑛 δ
𝛿= (N/mm)
𝐺𝑑 4

1..
6

Choose 6 random load values between 2 Kg and 25 Kg and calculate the corresponding
deflection values and fill the above table

RESULT

For closed coil spring

Stiffness of the spring, S = ------------------------------ N/mm (from calculation)

Stiffness of the spring, S = ------------------------------ N/mm (from graph)

Flexibility factor, a = ------------------------------

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