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  2. Spring steel - Wikipedia

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    Wrought iron. Spring steel is a name given to a wide range of steels [1] used in the manufacture of different products, including swords, saw blades, springs and many more. These steels are generally low-alloy manganese, medium-carbon steel or high-carbon steel with a very high yield strength. This allows objects made of spring steel to return ...

  3. Halo-gravity traction device - Wikipedia

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    Orthopedics. [edit on Wikidata] Halo-gravity traction (HGT) is a type of traction device utilized to treat spinal deformities such as scoliosis, [1][2] congenital spine deformities, cervical instability, basilar invagination, and kyphosis. [3] It is used prior to surgical treatment to reduce the difficulty of the following surgery and the need ...

  4. Plasticity (physics) - Wikipedia

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    v. t. e. In physics and materials science, plasticity (also known as plastic deformation) is the ability of a solid material to undergo permanent deformation, a non-reversible change of shape in response to applied forces. [1][2] For example, a solid piece of metal being bent or pounded into a new shape displays plasticity as permanent changes ...

  5. Deformation (engineering) - Wikipedia

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    Deformation are changes in the relative position between internals points on the object, excluding rigid transformations, causing the body to change shape or size. Strain is the relative internal deformation, the dimensionless change in shape of an infinitesimal cube of material relative to a reference configuration.

  6. Hooke's law - Wikipedia

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    In physics, Hooke's law is an empirical law which states that the force (F) needed to extend or compress a spring by some distance (x) scales linearly with respect to that distance—that is, Fs = kx, where k is a constant factor characteristic of the spring (i.e., its stiffness), and x is small compared to the total possible deformation of the ...

  7. Maraging steel - Wikipedia

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    Maraging blades are superior for foil and épée because crack propagation in maraging steel is 10 times slower than in carbon steel, resulting in less frequent breaking of the blade and fewer injuries. [i] [18] Stainless maraging steel is used in bicycle frames (e.g. Reynolds 953 introduced in 2013) [19] and golf club heads. [20]

  8. Spring (device) - Wikipedia

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    The inverse of spring rate is compliance, that is: if a spring has a rate of 10 N/mm, it has a compliance of 0.1 mm/N. The stiffness (or rate) of springs in parallel is additive, as is the compliance of springs in series. Springs are made from a variety of elastic materials, the most common being spring steel.

  9. Creep (deformation) - Wikipedia

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    Creep (deformation) In materials science, creep (sometimes called cold flow) is the tendency of a solid material to undergo slow deformation while subject to persistent mechanical stresses. It can occur as a result of long-term exposure to high levels of stress that are still below the yield strength of the material.