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A Case Study: Electrically Assisted Stress Relief Annealing for Cold-Coiled Helical Automotive Springs
Van Loi Tran1, Sung-Tae Hong1, Ji Ye Hong2
1School of Mechanical Engineering, University of Ulsan, Ulsan 44610, Republic of Korea.
Abstract:
This study experimentally investigated electrically assisted (EA) stress relief annealing for cold-coiled commercial automotive springs. In EA stress relief annealing, the temperature of a spring is rapidly increased to the annealing temperature (400 °C) and is held constant for a specified time using a pulsed electric current. Experimental findings show that the effectiveness of the EA stress relief annealing is superior to that of the conventional stress relief annealing, especially in terms of process time. The present study suggests that EA stress relief annealing, with properly selected process parameters, can effectively substitute for time-consuming conventional stress relief annealing using a furnace for cold-coiled automotive springs.
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