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- WA Clean: The Surface Cleanliness Measurement Tool
- Year: 2017, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 31, Issue 1, Winter 2017
- THE WA clean is a patented design by Winoa Group (W Abrasives) created to provide objective, reliable and repeatable surface cleanliness results based on mathematical values. It is small, portable and...
- The Parts Are the Wrong Temperature!
- Year: 2017, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 31, Issue 1, Winter 2017
- I have many stories and one of my favorites is a fascinating lesson in listening. Several years ago, while touring a customer’s facility, I kept overhearing telephone conversations that seemed ...
- Coverage Variability
- Year: 2017, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 31, Issue 1, Winter 2017
- INTRODUCTION Coverage is one of the most important parameters in shot peening. It is specified in J2277 to be the “Percentage of a surface that has been impacted at least once by the peening...
- High-Pressure Fuel Injection Systems: Shot Peening and Its Effect on Residual Stress
- Year: 2017, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 31, Issue 1, Winter 2017
- Student Researchers: Rachel Butler, Yuheng Du, Heather Macdonald, Kerui Sun Faculty Advisor: John Blendell • Industrial Sponsor: Brian Wright and Andrew Armuth with Cummins Fuel Systems. ...
- Shot Peening Achievement Exams: A Review
- Year: 2017, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 31, Issue 1, Winter 2017
- Every expert was once a beginner and every expert had to pass many tests to achieve such a high level of competency. That said, a casual google search on “fear of exams†came back with 21,...
- The 2016 Shot Peener of the Year Colin McGrory
- Year: 2017, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 31, Issue 1, Winter 2017
- Colin Mcgrory is an entrepreneur, an innovator and a shot peening explorer. Colin appreciates being part of a successful business, but he especially thrives on continually learning something new about...
- In This Issue
- Year: 2017, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 31, Issue 1, Winter 2017
- It was celebration time. I was pleased to see so many of our long-time friends at the 25th Annual Shot Peening Workshop. We also had a very large number of first-time attendees, which is a great sign ...
- EI Shot Peening Training at AirVenture
- Year: 2016, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 30, Issue 4, Fall 2016
- Dave Barkley, Electronics Inc. Shot Peening Training Director and FAA Safety Team Member, was asked to speak at the 2016 EAA AirVenture. EAA stands for Experimental Aircraft Association and the organi...
- How Visualization Saves Money in R&D
- Year: 2016, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 30, Issue 4, Fall 2016
- Mechanical pre-stressing treatments using shot peening are widely used in automobile, aeronautic and biomedical industries to improve mechanical parts and structures. These cold-working processes use...
- Shot Stream Generation
- Year: 2016, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 30, Issue 4, Fall 2016
- Introduction: Air-blast shot streams consist of a mixture of fast-flowing air and entrained shot particles carried along by the flow of air. Generating an air-blast shot stream embraces two main prob...
- ZF TRW Utilizes Purdue Research Team for Residual Stress Study
- Year: 2016, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 30, Issue 4, Fall 2016
- The ZT TRW branch in Lafayette, Indiana produces power steering systems for the heavy-duty trucking industry. To meet performance and safety standards for their customers, ZF TRW uses shot peening to ...
- Taking a Shot at Laser Cutting
- Year: 2016, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 30, Issue 4, Fall 2016
- The following interview is reprinted with permission from TrumPf Inc. The article originally appeared in the “TRUMPF Express†magazine of Spring 2016. The author is Susan Grohs and the pho...
- Machine Profiling— A Guide
- Year: 2016, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 30, Issue 4, Fall 2016
- Until a decade or so ago, the term “profile†was commonly used in reference to angles, channels and other formed sections. That’s changed now! My know-it-all friend Google now infor...
- Lesson Learned: The Value of a Machine Profile
- Year: 2016, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 30, Issue 4, Fall 2016
- Kumar Balan’s article on machine profiles reminded me of a related experience from several years ago. One of our larger customers was retrofitting an old wheel-type peening machine that had Ma...
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