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6. Study of a leaf spring
6.1 Blade calculation
6.1.1 Conducting the calculation
In general, the data are the desired flexibility and the spring's overall dimensions, in particular the maximum width, the distance between supports L and the embedding conditions, which make it possible to determine the active length La = L – A, where A is the length actually embedded.
The calculation involves three steps:
in the first stage, the spring composition is calculated, i.e. the number...
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Study of a leaf spring