Technical Aspects of Shot Peening Machinery and Media

Author:  H.J. Plaster
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 14 / Issue 2, Summer 2000
Doc ID:  2000031
Year of Publication:  2000
Abstract:  
Reprinted with permission from Proceedings of ICSP1. Editor: A. Niku-Lari When Herbert experimented in 1926 by pouring 3 mm dia. steel balls down a speaking tube on to a steel specimen contained in a metal biscuit tin, he could not have foreseen how far reaching his work would be. This idea of mechanical hammering was basically correct. From these early experiments of peening has grown a whole vast area of an industry that has warranted over the years the attention of scientists and academics on the one hand and specialist engineers on the other.