Questions tagged [springs]
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What are the lightest springs?
I am wondering if there is a spring strong enough and light enough to inflate an airtight membrane so that it floats at Standard Temp & Pressure.
As an example, a 10cm cylinder would displace ...
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Can I weaken a coil spring consisting of spring steel?
I have a steel coil spring that is used by compression. It is too strong, and I would like to reduce its strength by some fraction, ideally keeping its length.
Reducing it to roughly half would be ...
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How is the long-term creep of a spring determined?
Spring Design
In spring design, there a a variety of parameters to consider. Some of the parameters are solely physical (wire diameter, coil diameter, length, etc.) and some are determined from the ...
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Would a double helix spring be more or less effective than two springs?
Say I have a spring in the shape of the backbone of DNA. If I unwind the two parts which would have more potential energy when pushed all the way down, the double helical or both of the individual ...
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Advice on spring launcher project
I found an ingenious design of a spring ball launcher on grabcad and I'm interested in adapting it to accelerate a $43.7 \mathrm{~mm}$ diameter, $45 \mathrm{~g}$ golf ball enough to reach $65.5 \...
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How is energy in the hairspring restored in a mechanical watch?
I've read through the excellent guide to how mechanical watches work by Ciechanowski, but it leaves some questions unanswered.
The main spring of the watch, when it loses energy, can of course be re-...
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What is the simplest spring system that could produce recoil absorption comparable to that exhibited by the AA-12 assault shotgun?
In this video, the video emphasises the very low recoil level of the AA-12 fully automatic shotgun. In particular, at this point in the video the presenter uses one hand to relatively lightly grip the ...
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Calculate forces/ torques on a parallel spring array
I am stuck on the calculation of forces on a certain system involving parallel springs.
The schematic of the system is as follows:
The lower plane is fixed and the upper plane movable. There is a ...
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