Buckling Stability Analysis of Parallel Micro-Spring

Abstract:

Compression deformation will cause a micro-spring to buckle, and structural parameters, constraint conditions and structural forms of a micro-spring will affect its critical load and buckling mode. In order to study the influence on the micro-spring’s stability caused by structural forms and find a structure to improve its critical load in the end, this paper designs a new kind of parallel micro-springs, which consists of two same-structured S-shaped planar micro-springs. We have carried on eigenvalue buckling analysis on the parallel micro-spring by software ANSYS, and have gotten its six orders’ buckling mode. Because the critical load of the parallel micro-spring may change with the length of the beam connecting the two sub-springs, this paper studies the effect of the beam’s length on the parallel micro-spring’s critical loads and buckling mode. From comparing the analysis results between parallel micro-spring and single micro-spring with same stiffness, this paper concludes the stability’s degree of improvement.

• Periodical: Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 989-994)
• Pages: 2859-2864
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.989-994.2859
• Online since: July 2014
• Authors: Jing Zhang*, Li Sui, Xu Hong Guo, Guo Hua Liu
• Keywords: Eigenvalue Buckling Analysis, Micro-Spring, Parallel Spring, Stability

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