Unconventional Carbon Springs

The purpose of this contribution is to invent new spring, which will be made of carbon woven material. In this case, we examine spring properties in FEM software intended for testing of composite materials. This research is based on the need of special lightweight spring, which will have long length of compression and excellent resilience. Design of this unconventional spring we want to use as spring with damper in our project for extremely terrain lightweight vehicle. We designed two types of springs. First is made of corrugated carbon strip aligned into square and second is helical conical compression spring of rectangular wire. These springs were tested for the maximum load of 2000 N and we monitored the stress and deformation. Both springs were also tested with different angle direction of forming layers. The article wants to find new field of usage of carbon material through good elastic properties in spring sphere.