I made the attached circuit in LTspice.
It is a 12 Volt AC source with 50 Volt spikes feeding a 90 Ohm resistor. So I added a SMBJ24CA TVS diode in parallel, expecting it to clamp the voltage to something near 24 Volts.
But it doesn't work. The voltage spikes pass unobstructed to the load.
Am I missing something or is this how the TVS diode is supposed to work?