ABSTRACT
While there appears no natural hierarchical order to the three different flexure elements presented in this chapter, it is mainly for historical reasons that the leaf spring is discussed first. It is possible that the reason this element has been in use for so long is its ease of manufacture and assembly. Primarily, leaf springs can be either fabricated by clamping a thin plate between two rigid bodies or, with more difficulty, machined out of a monolithic block of material. In the former
4.1.1 The cantilever as a rotary binge
dx2 y (4.1)
For the purpose of computing the maximum stress, the maximum bending moment, M mox = FYL, can be directly substituted into the bending equation, see chapter 2.
