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Analysis of variable frictional contacts wave springs fabricated using MultiJet fusion additive manufacturing

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Additive manufacturing (AM), often known as 3D printing, is a fast-growing fabrication technology that is rapidly displacing traditional manufacturing due to its capacity to manufacture complex geometries with ease of customization, such as in the case of wave spring designs. Such springs have prospective uses in a variety of industries, including aerospace, automotive, oil and gas, and biomedical where researchers/engineers are interested in the mechanical properties of such springs. Slippage of coils is one of the significant phenomena that was noted during axial compression of additively manufactured wave springs. This study aims to investigate the effect of variable frictional contacts between the coils of wave spring on energy absorption, stiffness, load-bearing capacity, and compression behavior during loading- unloading. Nine contact wave springs with different profiles, i.e., sine, square, concave, convex, V, and mixed profiles on the surface of coils, were designed and fabricated using HP MultiJet fusion printer. Compression testing was performed up to ten cycles to analyze the mechanical performance and compression behavior of each design. The sine profiled coils showed the highest energy absorption, with the minimum energy loss from the first to the tenth cycle while having the lowest stiffness among all the designs for this study. Furthermore, the results demonstrated that these variable fictional contacts improved the stability of the designs as the coil’s slippage resistance increased and has a significant impact on mechanical properties, allowing the researchers to design wave springs for different applications based on load/stiffness requirements having variable dimensions. Experimental results were compared with finite element analysis (FEA), which was performed using the identical boundary conditions of experimental testing and showed minimum variation in terms of load-bearing capacity and compression behavior.

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This work was financially supported by the High-Speed 3D Printing Research Center (Grant No. 108P012) from the Featured Areas Research Center Program within the framework of the Higher Education Sprout Project by the Ministry of Education (MOE) Taiwan.

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  1. Department of Mechanical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Road, Taipei, 106, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Gul Jamil Shah & Jeng-Ywan Jeng

  2. High-Speed 3D Printing Research Center, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, No. 43, Section 4, Keelung Road, Taipei 106, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Gul Jamil Shah, Muhammad Rizwan ul Haq, Shang-Chih Lin & Jeng-Ywan Jeng

  3. Department of Design and Manufacturing, School of Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering (SMME), National University of Sciences and Technology (NUST), Islamabad, Pakistan

    Muhammad Rizwan ul Haq

  4. Graduate Institute of Biomedical Engineering, National Taiwan University of Science and Technology, Taipei, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Shang-Chih Lin

  5. Academy of Innovative Semiconductor and Sustainable Manufacturing, National Cheng Kung University, Tainan, Taiwan, Republic of China

    Jeng-Ywan Jeng

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Shah, G.J., Haq, M.R.u., Lin, SC. et al. Analysis of variable frictional contacts wave springs fabricated using MultiJet fusion additive manufacturing. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 126, 87–101 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-023-11099-5

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