Open Design Optimization Platform (ODOP) - Coil spring design app; mechanical springs; compression spring, extension spring, torsion spring
There are many excellent sources of information on spring design. Several on the following list were consulted in the development of the ODOP:Spring program. No single source contains a comprehensive set of equations and/or material property values found in ODOP:Spring. The references are presented in alphabetical order by title.
Design Handbook - Engineering Guide to Spring Design
Form no. 515
Copyright 1981, Library of Congress Number 81-67959
Associated Spring - Barnes Group Inc.
18 Main St.
Bristol, Ct. 06010
Design of Machine Elements (sixth edition, 1985)
M. F. Spotts
Prentice-Hall, Inc. Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Copyright 1964, Library of Congress Number 64-18626
Handbook of Spring Design
Copyright 1981 ISBN 00-9604120-0-8
Spring Manufacturer's Institute Inc.
2001 Midwest Road, Suite 106
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
telephone: 630-495-8588
Machinery's Handbook
ISBN 0-8311-1155-0
Industrial Press Inc.
200 Madison Ave.,
New York, NY 10157
Mark's Standard Handbook for Mechanical Engineers
ISBN 0-07-004123-7
McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc. New York, N.Y.
Mechanical Design Analysis
M. F. Spotts
Prentice-Hall, Inc.
Englewood Cliffs, N.J.
Copyright 1964,
Library of Congress Number 64-18626
Mechanical Springs (second edition, 1963)
A. M. Wahl
McGraw-Hill Book Co, Inc. New York, N.Y.
Spring Designer's Handbook
Harold Carlson
Marcel Dekker, Inc.
270 Madison Ave., New York, NY 10016
Copyright 1978,
Library of Congress Number 77-27436 TJ210.C37
Spring Design Manual AE-11
Published by Society of Automotive Engineers (1990)
ISBN 10: 0898837774 ISBN 13: 9780898837773
A list of "Useful Publications for Spring Makers" appears in the May 1985 issue of "Springs, The Magazine of Spring Technology" published by:
Spring Manufacturer's Institute Inc.
2001 Midwest Road, Suite 106
Oak Brook, Illinois 60523
telephone: 630-495-8588
Additional spring design resources available on the Internet include:
Algorithms for Optimization
Mykel J. Kochenderfer and Tim A. Wheeler
520 pp., 8 x 9 in, 237 color illus.
ISBN: 9780262039420
Publisher: The MIT Press; March 2019
Additional design optimization resources available on the Internet include: