ESTIMATION OF COMPOSITE SHAPED EQUISTRONG LEAF SPRINGS EFFECTIVENESS
The brief analysis was conducted for direct, technological and design effects of low modulus and high strength GFRP application for elastic members like equistrong leaf springs. The «ideal» shaped equistrong leaf springs can accumulate the same elastic energy with threefold mass reduction, and due to their low density and Young modulus it is possible to provide approximately 15 times of mass reduction in compare with steel analog of multi-leaf spring.