I recently wrote a piece discussing some of the basic differences between coil springs and leaf springs. But while putting the piece together, I ran into an interesting problem. Despite coil springs ...

We wish we could tell you that torsion-bar springs are modern technology's answer to the quest for soft riding, long travel, and easily modified suspensions. When we were researching this story we ...

I HAVE shown 1 that glass rods with normally damaged surfaces, and subjected to sustained loading, fracture in equal times when subjected to numerically equal prior principal stresses, in bending, ...