Shaping the Future - How to Shot Peen Ceramics

Author:  Shot Peening Staff
Source:  The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 19 / Issue 3, Summer 2005
Doc ID:  2005027
Year of Publication:  2005
Abstract:  
The work of Dr. Wulf Pfeiffer Dr. Wulf Pfeiffer, with the Fraunhofer Institute for Mechanics of Materials in Freiburg, Germany, has conducted extensive research on how to strengthen ceramics through shot peening-a process that was believed to be impossible due to the brittle nature of the material.