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Materials that are worked with include cold drawn and cold rolled low-alloy steel, patent and cold drawn wire, hardenable spring steel, oil tempered spring wire and bainite hardened strip, stainless spring steel, stainless spring steel with extra corrosion properties, stainless spring steel for higher temperatures, stainless non-magnetic steel, alloys, copper alloys, anti-magnetic acid-resistant spring steel, titanium alloys, super-alloys that are heat resistant and highly corrosion resistant spring materials.

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Super-alloys include Inconel X-750, Nimonic 90, Inconel 718, Hastelloy C-276, Elgiloy, Ni-Span, MP35N, etc.

Bespoke springs.

Bespoke springs are usually made from alloys of steel. The most common spring steels are music wire, oil tempered wire, chrome silicon, chrome vanadium, and 302 and 17-7 stainless. Other materials can also be formed into springs, depending on the characteristics needed. Some of the more common of these exotic metals include beryllium copper, phosphor bronze, Inconel, Monel, and titanium.

Material Common Sizes Properties and Uses include:

Music Wire.003-.250 A high-carbon steel wire used primarily for applications demanding high strength, medium price, and uniformly high quality. Guitar and piano strings are made from this material, as are most small springs. Music wire will contract under heat, and can be plated.

Oil Tempered Wire (OT).010-.625 This is the workhorse steel spring wire, being used for many applications in which superior strength or uniformity is not crucial. Will not generally change dimensions under heat. Can be plated. Also available in square and rectangular sections.

Chrome Silicon, Chrome Vanadium.010-.500 These are higher quality, higher strength versions of Oil Tempered wire, used in high-temperature applications such as automotive valve springs. Will not generally change dimensions under heat. Can be plated.

Stainless Steel.005-.500 Stainless steels will not rust, ideal for environments containing water or condensation. 302 series stainless will expand slightly under heat: 17-7 will usually not change. Cannot be plated.

Inconel, Monel, Beryllium Copper, Phosphor Bronze.010-.125 These speciality alloys are sometimes made into springs which are designed to work in extremely high-temperature environments, where magnetic fields present a problem, or where corrosion resistance is needed in a high-temperature working environment. They are much more costly than the more common stocks and cannot be plated. They generally will not change dimensions under heat.

Titanium.032-.500 is common in aircraft because of its extremely light weight and high strength, titanium is also extremely expensive and dangerous to work with as well: titanium wire will shatter explosively under stress if its surface is scored. Generally will not change dimensions under heat. Cannot be plated.

Titanium is the strongest material, but it is very expensive. Next come chrome vanadium and chrome silicon, then music wire, and then oil tempered wire. The stainless and exotic materials are all weaker than the rest.

Corrosion resistance

Resistance to corrosion is important in most spring applications since corrosive attack may increase contact resistance and lead eventually to mechanical failure. Nickel alloy springs and copper alloys exhibit excellent resistance to atmospheric corrosion and in this respect are much superior to carbon and low alloy steels. For instance, tests have shown that the resistance to attack in industrial atmospheres of copper alloys is up to ten times that of mild steel.

There are some differences in corrosion resistance between various copper alloys used for springs and, in order to determine the most suitable material for a specific environment and application, reference should be made to the supplier.

Shear strength

Shear strength values are based on two-thirds of the tensile strength in the longitudinal direction.

Spring design information.

Proper design of compression and extension springs requires a knowledge of both the potentials and the limitations of available materials, together with simple formulas. Since spring theory is normally developed on the basis of spring rate (or gradient), the formula for spring rate is the most widely used in spring design.

For compression springs with closed ends, either ground or not ground, the number of active coils (n) is two less than the total number of coils (N). For extension springs, all coils are active; body length is wire diameter times the total number of coils plus one: d(n + 1). The formulas do not apply to extension springs until there has been sufficient deflection to separate the close-wound coils and thus remove all initial tension.

Compression springs.

A compression spring is an open-coil helical spring that offers resistance to a compressive force applied axially. Compression springs are usually coiled as a constant diameter cylinder. Other common forms of compression springs-such as conical, tapered, concave, convex, or various combinations of these-are used as required by the application. While square, rectangular or special-section wire may have to be specified, roundwire is predominant in compression springs because it is readily available and adaptable to standard coiler tooling.

Compression springs should be stress-relieved to remove residual bending stresses produced by the coiling operation. Depending on design and space limitations, compression springs may be categorized according to stress level as follows:

1. Springs which can be compressed solid without permanent set, so that an extra operation for removing set is not needed. These springs are designed with torsional stress levels when compressed solid that do not exceed about 40 percent of the minimum tensile strength of the material.

2. Springs which can be compressed solid without further permanent set after set has been initially removed. These may be pre-set by the spring manufacturer as an added operation, or they may be pre-set later by the user prior to or during the assembly operation. These are springs designed with torsional stress levels when compressed solid that do not exceed 60 percent of the minimum tensile strength of the material.

3. Springs which cannot be compressed solid without some further permanent set taking place because set cannot be completely removed in advance. These springs involve torsional stress levels which exceed 60 percent of the minimum tensile strength of the material. The spring manufacturer will usually advise the user of the maximum allowable spring deflection without set whenever springs are specified in this category.

In designing compression springs the space allotted governs the dimensional limits of a spring with regard to allowable solid height and outside and inside diameters. These dimensional limits, together with the load and deflection requirements, determine the stress level. It is extremely important to consider carefully the space allotted to ensure that the spring will function properly to begin with, thereby avoiding costly spring development changes.

Aerospace spring materials and their yay çelikleri quality can be in stark relief when they are mechanical springs which have failed either by fracture or by significant deformation in use, a mechanical product newly designed or improved, where a new design of a spring is required, or where cost reduction is required for the spring.Perhaps the springs were used in severer conditions than initially expected or some important quality requirement failed to be included at the design stage.

When unloaded. springs should return to the original position or to the original shape. An unloaded spring often does not recover to its original shape and this kind of shape change is called a permanent set of a spring. If a permanent set takes place in a spring, it may exert some deleterious effect. Springs loaded under repeated or varying stresses can sometimes fracture due to fatigue. In general, permanent set and fatigue fracture can be said to be the most important quality factors of springs to be paid attention to. In addition, failure of springs due to wear and/or corrosion is to be taken into consideration, according to the application or the environments of their use. Quality requirements for spring materials change with conditions such as temperature and environment.

Helical torsion springs.

What are the requirements for design allowable stresses that can he recommended for bespoke aerospace springs used under static load with different wire diameters? Material selection has to be made according to the temperature when in use. Piano wire and hard drawn wire are the most popular material grades and their procurement is comparatively easy. Steel rope made of hard drawn wire can be used under dynamic stress even at minus 40'C. without any problems. This means that piano wire springs and hard drawn wire springs can be used at low temperatures.

For springs used at room temperatures up to 150'C, piano wire and hard drawn wire can normally be used. If fatigue fractures and/or creep problems cannot be overcome by piano wire or hard drawn wire, oil tempered wire can be considered.

Stainless steel springs are sometimes used at more elevated temperature than oil tempered wire. because creep resistance of the stainless steel is generally superior to that of the oil tempered wire. For aviation springs used at higher temperature than stainless steel springs can cope with, iron-base superalloy A286 springs, nickel-based superalloy springs or ceramics (silicon nitride springs) are mainly used.

It can be normally said that the fatigue strength of metallic springs show the relationship proportionate to its hardness or tensile strength, at least up to a certain level. As