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From the Rolls-Royce experimental archive: a quarter of a million communications from Rolls-Royce, 1906 to 1960's. Documents from the Sir Henry Royce Memorial Foundation (SHRMF).
Page discussing a spring design formula from a 1925 S.A.E. Journal and introducing a subsequent table of formulas.

Identifier  ExFiles\Box 158\4\  scan0042
Date  12th June 1936 guessed
  
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Then experience gives us the formula, as published
by Stewart in S.A.E. Journal of August 1925.

d = .48d (O D + 1)
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P D

For ratio of diameter of wire to mean diameter
of spring greater than one to twelve, the effect of keystone
can be neglected.

After d is obtained, the solid height of the
spring can be calculated.

For your convenience we have taken the formulas
given and tabulated them on the next page. The first column
gives the unknown desired and the next the known quantities
which must be obtained to solve the equation for round wire
compression or extension springs. The last column gives the
same information for square wire.
  
  


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