Friction springs act as buffers to absorb and dampen high levels of kinetic energy from a moving mass. They also work as overload-protection devices and handle high forces in a relatively small ...

Spring technology for damping is relatively old. Stagecoaches had leaf springs, early trains had large, crude, coil-spring buffers (to absorb shocks when cars bumped together) and early automobiles ...

To many outside of motorsports, the way a shock works is a bit of a mystery. They know it controls the suspension, but they don't know exactly how a shock does it. We're going to pull back the curtain ...