Kickass! This is why I am here. I have very little recourses at my disposal. The rod is 26mm in diameter but M24 thread at the button end and made of 316 stainless. For the spring, it is ground flat at both ends. The exact dimensions I’ll have to measure at our workshop a little later this...
Thus far I have decided to do a sectional analysis like cutting a slice of cake and consider a sectional part of the annular load applied by the spring. The spring is ground by the way.
That's the simplification yes. I am currently solving the problem in another manner aswell, and that is by FEM...
I am working on a spring button assembly as shown in the sketch. It can be visualized as the same principal used to support a coil spring in a car’s coil-over shock assembly. Originally it was designed on thumb-suck values and therefore overdesigned to prevent failure. It forms part of a...
