Analysis of Leaf Springs by RBSM Method

Abstract

The leaf tip method, based on the small displacement theory, of a conventional analytic method for leaf springs can be applied to only linear analysis. However, non-linear phenomena concerned with leaf springs are not rare; so that the RBSM method of the simplest FEM is applied to the analysis of those phenomena. The two major phenomena to be analyzed were behavior and setting of a truck suspension and the analysis of them well agreed with the experimental result.