TECHNICAL TIDBITS:
No. 20 08/2010: Cantilever Beams Part 1 - Beam Stiffness
No. 19 07/2010: Strengthening Mechanisms Summary
No. 18 06/2010: Thermal Strengthening Mechanisms
No. 17 05/2010: Strain Hardening & Strength
No. 16 04/2010: Solid Solution Hardening & Strength
No. 15 03/2010: Grain Size and Material Strength
No. 14 02/2010: What Happens During Yielding?
No. 13 01/2010: Factors Affecting Stress Relaxation and Creep
No. 12 12/2009: Stress Relaxation & Creep
No. 11 11/2009: Elastic Springback
No. 10 10/2009: Bend Testing vs. Forming Reality
No. 9 09/2009: Formability and Bend Testing
No. 8 08/2009: The Cumulative Effects of Tolerances on Connector Performance-2
No. 7 08/2009: The Cumulative Effects of Tolerances on Connector Performance-1
No. 6 07/2009: The Importance of Contact Force
No. 5 06/2009: Reliability and End-of-Life Contact Force
No. 4 05/2009: Cumulative Stress & The Brauschinger Effect
No. 3 04/2009: Size Reduction
No. 2 03/2009: Why Good Designs Fail
No. 1 06/2008: Impact Resistance Elastic Properties
ARCHIVES:
2005
Volume 6 No 1, 1/05: Yield Strength and other Near Elastic Properties
Volume 6 No 2, 4/05: Elastic Modulus
Volume 6 No 3, 9/05: Tensile Strength Considerations
Volume 6 No 4, 10/05: Strain Hardening
Volume 6 No 5, 12/05: Strain Hardening and Formability
2004
Volume 5 No 1, 1/04: Introducing Alloy 390™
Volume 5 No 2, 3/04: Connector Insertion Force
Volume 5 No 3, 5/04: Stress-Strain Concepts Revisited
2002
Volume 4 No 1, 1/02: Coating Electrical Contacts
Volume 4 No 2, 2/02: Tin as a Coating Material
Volume 4 No 3, 3/02: Fretting Corrosion
Volume 4 No 4, 4/02: Nickel as a Coating Material
Volume 4 No 5, 5/02: Creep Corrosion & Pore Corrosion
Volume 4 No 6, 6/02: Nickel as an Undercoating
Volume 4 No 7, 7/02: Gold as a Contact Material
Volume 4 No 8, 8/02: The Platinum Group Metals as Contact Materials
Volume 4 No 9, 9/02: Silver as a Contact Material
Volume 4 No 10, 10/02: Introduction to Arcing Contacts
Volume 4 No 11, 11/02: The Effects of Arcing
Volume 4 No 12, 12/02: Summary of Electrical Contact Coatings
2001
Volume 3 No 1, 1/01: Strengthening Mechanisms Summary
Volume 3 No 2, 2/01: Cantilever Beams - Part 1 (Beam Stiffness)
Volume 3 No 3, 3/01: Cantilever Beams - Part 2 (Analysis)
Volume 3 No 4, 4/01: Elastic Resilience
Volume 3 No 5, 5/01: Connector Temperature Rise
Volume 3 No 6, 6/01: Current Carrying Capacity
Volume 3 No 7, 7/01: Hardness Testing
Volume 3 No 8, 8/01: Hardness Testing Pitfalls
Volume 3 No 9, 9/01: Tensile Testing
Volume 3 No 10, 10/01: Material Property Directionality
Volume 3 No 11, 11/01: Strip vs. Wire
Volume 3 No 12, 12/01: Round vs. Rectangular Cross Sections