Case Study: Safety Critical Spring Failure in the Aerospace Sector In the aerospace sector, like a lot of other industries, springs are everywhere. They’re in the seats and luggage bins of commercial planes, the control panels of jet fighters and in the antenna of satellites. Although there are hundreds of different spring shapes and designs […]
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High Performance Spring Failure: A Case Study of a Valve Spring Within all industries, certain components are known for their precise manufacture and exceptional performance. Within the spring industry, valve springs are considered some of the top performers. These springs are typically manufactured from material with the tightest tolerances, highest strength and with minimal inclusions
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Achieving the Performance you Expect Springs are highly stressed critical components that must sometimes undertake millions of cycles during their life. Customers demand longevity and high performance from a product, because of this it’s important to understand how your spring will behave. Fatigue testing is a method of working a spring until it breaks. This
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Spring Load Testing, Why the Difference? Why do different companies get different load test results when testing the same batch of springs. Having been asked this question we decided to look into it a bit deeper and here’s what we found… After carrying out a standard load test on a compression spring we found the
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