DHAKA UNIVERSITY OF ENGINEERING & TECHNOLOGY,

GAZIPUR-1700

PRESENTATION ON
HELICAL
SPRING

SUBJECT: MECHANICS OF SOLIDS-2 (SESSIONAL)

SUBJECT CODE: CE-2104
 WELCOME
TO
PRESENTATION
CONTENTS TO BE DISCUSSED
01.BACKGROUND
02.INTRODUCTION
03.OBJECTIVES
04.APPARATUS AND MATERIALS
05.FUNCTION OF HELICAL SPRING
06.CLASSIFICATION OF HELICAL SPRING
07.NOMENCLATURE OF HELICAL SPRING
08.DATA SHEET AND GRAPH
09..RESULT AND CALCULATION
10.DISCUSSION AND RECOMMENDATION
11.REFERENCE
 BACKGROUND
The First Coiled Spring
It wasn’t until 1763 when R. Treadwell invented the first ever coiled spring.  It was a British patent,
number 792.  It was considered a step up from the leaf spring. The leaf spring had to be lubricated often
and was quite squeaking. The best was that the spring didn’t have to be spread apart.
The word coil meant to wind cylindrically or spirally. In the year 1857 the first ever steel  coil spring was
invented. It was used for chair seats.
Ever since the inventions of these coil springs, springs have been used in everything from shoes to
trampolines. Springs help make the car industry what it is today. Springs are used in every type of
machinery and they really do help make the world go around.

In these type of springs the major stresses is torsional shear stress due to twisting. They
are both used in tension and compression. Spiral springs are made of flat strip of metal
wound in the form of spiral and loaded in torsion. In this the major stresses are tensile
and compression due to bending.
INTRODUCTION

Helical spring is a device, is used to store some energy so that when the energy is needed, it
is released.

They can return their original shape when the force is released.

It is defined as elastic body.

OBJECTIVES
The overall objectives was to investigate the modulus of rigidity, deflection and maximum shear
stress, flexibility of helical spring.

Some specific objectives are:

01.To observe the load deflection relationship of the helical spring.
02.To determine some it’s physical properties.
03.To find the stiffness of the spring.
04.To compare the theoretical stiffness with the observed value.
04.To draw a curve by plotting load against deflection and find the modulus of rigidity of the
spring materials
APPARATUS AND MATERIALS

UTM(universal testing machine)

Digital slide calipers

Steel tape

Helical spring
FUNCTION OF HELICAL SPRING
Used to store energy and subsequently release it

To absorb shock

To maintain a force between contacting surface

TYPES OF HELICAL SPRING

Tensional spring

Compressional spring

Torsional spring

Spiral spring
DATA TABLE -01
Obs.no. Load(N) Comprise meter Displacement Shear Shear
reading (mm) stress(Mpa) strain(mm/mm)

1 0 0 0 0 0
2 500 240 2.4 8.75 9.8
3 1000 370 3.7 17.51 15.1
4 1500 510 5.1 26.26 20.8
5 2000 658 6.58 35.02 26.86
6 2500 800 8 43.77 32.65
7 3000 950 9.5 52.53 38.78
8 3500 1095 10.95 61.216 44.70
9 4000 1235 12.35 70.04 50.41
10 4500 1395 13.95 78.79 56.94
11 5000 1547 15.47 87.55 63.14
DATA TABLE-02

Spring area maximum Direct Torsional Deflection stiffne Resilienc Modulu Types Maximu
no. load shear shear ss e s of of m
stress stress rigidity spring shear
stress

1 692.4 5000 7.92 80.34 14.33 348.83 35.82x10 80.9x10 Helical 87.55
3 3
spring

All units are considers N and mm.

GRAPH
120

100

80
Shear Stress (Mpa)

60

40

20

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Shear Strain (mm)

Fig 2:Shear Stress vs Shear Strain

GRAPH

6000

5000
Load (N)

4000

3000

2000

1000

0
0 2 4 6 8 10 12

Deformation (mm)

Fig 1: Load vs Deformation

RESULTS

Maximum shear stress=87.55 Mpa

Maximum strain =63.14 mm/mm

Direct shear stress=7.92 Mpa

Torsional shear stress=80.34 Mpa

Deflection=14.33 mm

Stiffness=348.83 N/mm

Modulus of resilience=35.825 joule

CONCLUSION
Spring is made of an elastic materials that changes in shape
or deform when a force is applied to it

There are a number of other spring shapes used in

engineering field
DISCUSSION
The curve load vs deflection shows that under loading faces increases the deflection also increases. At the
load also increases 5000 N the maximum deflection occur That is the value of 15.47 mm.so the deflection is
linear .

RECOMMENDATION
The helical spring is very strong in compressive force. In civil engineering it is used in the bridge where impulse
load rapidly up and down so it is very helpful to resist the impulse load.
References
 Strength of Materials by Singer &Pytel

 Engineering mechanics of solid 2nd edition

Egor.p.popov
 Online source
Thank you
Any questions?