What is Mechanical Spring?
A Mechanical Spring is a device that can also be defined as an elastic or resilient member, whose main function is to deflect under the action of load and recovers it’s original shape when the load is removed. It also used for storing energy.
Spring Materials:
Springs are made of the following materials:
Hard drawn wire: These are general purpose spring, where we need low-temperature resistance and low stress we can use these types of spring material
Stainless Steel: Nowadays stainless steel is widely used in making of spring
Phosphor Bronze: These types of spring are used in Electrical industry due to the material have good electrical conductivity and good resistance to corrosion
Chrome Silicon: This type of spring can be used in high temperature up to 250-degree celsius
Chrome Vanadium: These types of spring have good thermal conductivity up to 220-degree Celsius and also has good fatigue resistance
Graphite epoxy: It is used in high strength spring such as leaf spring
Carbon epoxy: It is made of carbon fibre, and have the ability to bear a high load, this material is also used in high strength applications like automobile, and locomotive.