Shot Peening in the News

Author:  Automotive Industry
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 19 / Issue 1, Winter 2005
Doc ID:  2005022
Year of Publication:  2005
Abstract:  
We are always searching for shot peening in the news and we recently found press releases on two very different cars. As evidenced by our recent workshop in Dearborn, Michigan, we are big believers in shot peening in the automotive industry. These vehicles couldn't be more dissimilar-the petrol-electric hybrid Honda Insight and the 2005 Ford GT 500 hp supercar. Cited as " . . .a petrol-electric hybrid two-seater coupe that blends a mass of new technologies to achieve the world's lowest fuel consumption for a mass-produced petrol engined car". How the Insight achieves its low fuel consumption is at least a partial validation of the research of Sidney Terry (Chrysler) and Roger Simpson (Advanced Material Process Corp.) Mr. Terry, retired V.P. from Chrysler, was the keynote speaker for the 2004 Workshop in Dearborn and he recapped the paper he and Mr. Simpson wrote in the late 1980s: An Essay on Cost as a Function of Weight in Automobiles and the Use of Shot Peening to Reduce Both. According to Mr. Terry and Mr. Simpson, reducing weight in the automobile is the key factor for the car designer that needs to increase fuel economy. (The paper was reprinted in The Shot Peener Spring, 2004.)