I've been designing a spring form for an over-center latch.
Because the spring form is an abnormal shape, I've been using ANSYS to calculate the stresses and stay below the material yield strength I've found online (<78% tensile yield as a design criteria).
The music wire I'm using is 2 mm...
Hello everyone,
I'm working on a mechanism that uses this "latch" type spring to clamp something down.
Does anyone know of any reference material or literature that would explain some basic calculations or a design methodology for this type of spring form?
I've looked around a lot and...
