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Articles from The Shot Peener magazine
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- Q& A
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- THE Q & A FORUM at www.shotpeener.com is the ideal place to get advice on a wide range of topics from industry leaders and colleagues from around the world that have tackled and solved your challen...
- New Semi-Automatic Roller Type Shot Blasting Machine
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- The “Fold-Away Tray” made of Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) used in Railway/Aircraft/Automotive Passenger seats requires the removal of stress and roughness before the coating process. MEC SHOT ...
- Work-Hardening During Peening
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- INTRODUCTION Shot peening is normally applied in order to improve the fatigue properties of components. This improvement is due to two factors: (1) Work-hardening of the surface layer and (2) Com...
- Probabilistic Assessment of Shot Peening Impact Coverage
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- Introduction In shot peening, compressive residual stresses are induced through impact events between media and the surface of a component. When designing a shot peening machine and specifying ope...
- Ventilation in Blast Machines
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- Introduction Without an exception, every functional blast machine whether cleaning, peening, or performing a similar action, is ventilated by a dust collector and exhaust fan. This collector takes...
- A Salute to Professor David Kirk
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- While the staff of The Shot Peener is very sorry to lose a valued contributor to the magazine, we recognize that Professor Kirk deserves to retire at 92 years of age! The following are quotes from ...
- Professor David Kirk’s Contribution to My Life
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- Now that Professor Kirk has announced his retirement from contributing articles to The Shot Peener magazine, I am reminiscing about our long relationship. We all have special people in our lives tha...
- Q& A
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- THE Q & A FORUM at www.shotpeener.com is the ideal place to get advice on a wide range of topics from industry leaders and colleagues from around the world that have tackled and solved your challen...
- Two Strip Setting-Up and Verification Program for Peening Intensity
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- INTRODUCTION The most accurate method of estimating peening intensity is to produce and analyze a saturation curve constructed from the arc heights of four (or preferably more) peened Almen strips...
- Malyn, the Last U.S. Manufacturer of Boron Carbide Nozzles, is on the Market
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- Michael Malyn, owner and President of Malyn Industrial Ceramics, Inc. (MICI), has announced his retirement and his plans to sell the company. “My wife, Patricia, and I started this business 38 ye...
- Progressive Surface to Install Shot Peening Equipment in Purdue Manufacturing Lab
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- Progressive Surface, Inc., of Grand Rapids, Michigan, and Purdue University’s School of Materials Engineering (MSE) have entered into an agreement for Progressive Surface to install pilot-scale r...
- The Logic Behind Selecting Hard Media
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- INTRODUCTION The great Leonardo da Vinci, in current times, would have been considered an individual with unsure prospects due to his variable interests. He was an active painter, draughtsman, eng...
- 2024 Shot Peener of the Year Jack Champaigne
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- THE TIMING was ideal this year to celebrate Jack Champaigne’s standing in the shot peening community. Jack launched Electronics Inc. in 1974 and for the next 50 years, he has worked tirelessly to...
- Opening Shot: Shot Peening Reserch Thrives at Purdue University
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- The Purdue Center for Surface Engineering and Enhancement (CSEE) meeting in September validated the growth of materials engineering research in the USA....
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