Materials for Spring

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       Material for Helical Springs:         Authors: R.S. KHURMI    J.K. GUPTA

The material of the spring should have high fatigue strength, high ductility, high resilience and

it should be creep resistant. It largely depends upon the service for which they are used i.e. severe

service, average service or light service.

Severe service means rapid continuous loading where the ratio of minimum to maximum

load (or stress) is one-half or less, as in automotive valve springs.

 Average service includes the same stress range as in severe service but with only intermittent

operation, as in engine governor springs and automobile suspension springs.

Light service includes springs subjected to loads that are static or very infrequently varied, as in

safety valve springs.

The springs are mostly made from oil-tempered carbon steel wires containing 0.60 to 0.70 per

cent carbon and 0.60 to 1.0 per cent manganese. Music wire is used for small springs. Non-ferrous

materials like phosphor bronze, beryllium copper, monel metal, brass etc., may be used in special

cases to increase fatigue resistance, temperature resistance and corrosion resistance.
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