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 ...

For years, microchannel coil technology has been used in the automotive industry in order to increase heat transfer efficiency and improve reliability through a higher level of corrosion resistance.

Sogefi Group (Milan, Italy) has launched what it says is the auto industry's first coil springs manufactured using composite material aimed at passenger vehicle and light commercial vehicle suspension ...

"Coil bind" occurs when a spring's coils stack solid at or before full camshaft lift. This develops an infinite load on the valvetrain, causing its weakest link to fail. If you're lucky, the result is ...

Today a lot of street-legal vehicles and off-road rigs run modern coil spring suspensions. Coil springs in their various formats have a number of advantages over traditional leaf springs and torsion ...