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01-05-2015 | Development
Testing of Valve Springs under Mechanical and Thermal Loads
Authors:
Dr.-Ing. Steffen Rödling, Ing. Manfred Hück, Dipl.-Ing. Matthias Decker, Dipl.-Ing. Sebastian Hoffmann
Published in:
MTZ worldwide
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Issue 5/2015
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Excerpt
The failure of valve springs can result in damage to the whole engine. A new testing procedure developed by IABG provides experimental verification of the fatigue strength of valve springs with very good statistical validation. In order to achieve a sufficiently high number of test results, a specially developed resonance testing machine is used. …