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Measurement of stiffnesses and yield points of various spring discs (TN-DYN-98)

Last updated on 07 April 2014 12:22

The valving in present Woodhead hydraulic dampers consists of stacks of spring discs. These are, as shown in fig.1, flat spring discs with unifier spring discs or monoflex spring discs. Previous tests (Dyn 88) and calculations have shown that these discs as used are everstressed and yield under the...

Author(s): Whiteland K M

Organisation(s): British Rail Research ;

1968

United Kingdom

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