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 ...

Most people probably don’t think about springs until one kinks up or snaps, but most of the world’s springs are pretty crucial. The ones that aren’t go by the name Slinky. We all use and encounter ...

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, ...