Engineered Washers

Alpha engineers and manufactures a variety of highly engineered washers to meet your most demanding fastening applications.  Compression and sealing, joint tension assurance to target, and extreme flatness under cyclical loads are achievable with our products.  Alpha’s products are validated to work in harmony with your assembly, ensuring peak performance.

 

  • Compressible for fluid sealing
  • High-tolerance flatness specifications
  • Ferrous and non-ferrous materials
  • Martensitic and other high-strength materials
  • Tension Assurance
  • Deburred, ground, burnished, validated
  • Cleaned to specification

Direct Tension Indicating Washer

In harsh environments with extremes of thermal cycling and vibration, many products fail. Alpha’s patented triangular bump direct tension indicating washers were developed to assure uniform joint tension regardless of environmental influences.

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Direct Tension Indicating Assembly

The engineering that went into the development of Alpha’s triangular bump DTI is also available in a pre-assembled form. Each DTI washer is assembled to its matched fastener in the patented DTI Assembly, assuring that DTI washers are not missing or misapplied when structures are assembled in the field. 

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