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Article | REF: B5438 V1

Rubber springs

Author: Michel DUCHEMIN

Publication date: May 10, 1986

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1. Compression springs

The rubber compression spring is generally shaped like a prism or cylinder, with one base resting on a flat cup and the other base loaded by a force P via another flat cup.

Given the cross-section S of the prism or cylinder, its stress in each cross-section is :

The compression ratio is :

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