Imagine you have been tasked to design a spring system for a pressure relief valve. One of the requirements is that it has to maintain linear behavior through 80% of its compression range to allow ...

Compression springs are used in many applications having linear compressive forces and needing mechanical energy storage, such as pneumatic cylinders and push-button controls. The most conventional ...

When designing helical or compression springs, you’ll confront several challenges and trade-offs, especially when it comes to getting the best possible performance from the wire. You will want to use ...

• Stock springs are generally intended for prototyping, and their use in production can compromise designs. • Experts recommend discussing specific design requirements with a spring manufacturer. The ...

A Brooklyn, NY company is introducing the first highly engineered helical compression spring made from plastic composites, with an eye on medical, electronics and other demanding markets. "Plastic ...

A wave spring is a compression spring made of coiled flat wire with waves added along the coils to give it a spring effect. They can be used in place of conventional round wire compression springs in ...

Nested Spirawave springs are flat wire wave springs with multiple turns, coiled in parallel to produce higher forces. These forces increase proportionally to the number of turns. Now available as a ...

A wave spring is a compression spring typically made from flat wire and designed to provide axial load in less space than ...

Helical coil springs are a mainstay in today’s automotive suspensions, with a basic design essentially unchanged since their advent. MW Industries (Rosemont, IL, US) is the largest US spring ...