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- Exploring Special Applications
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 3, Summer 2014
- The Shot Peener is covering an important resource in the shot peener’s toolbox: water. The unique benefits of water are put to good use in Cavitation Peening, Water-Jet Peening and Water-Jet Sh...
- Peen Forming of Ceramics — A New Chipless Shaping Technique
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- Dr. Wulf Pfeiffer, the head of the business unit and a researcher with Fraunhofer IWM, presented his latest research on the shot peening of ceramics at the 38th International Conference and Expositi...
- Customer Insights on the FlapSpeed® PRO
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- The Original FlapSpeed® Controller was introduced in 2008 to provide more control and visibility to the flapper peening process. In the last few years, hundreds have been sold to OEMs, MROs, airli...
- Estimate Compressed Layer Depth by Using Almen Peening Intensity
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- INTRODUCTION: Shot peening induces a surface layer that contains compressive residual stress. It is this compressed surface layer that is largely responsible for improved fatigue performance of com...
- Control Systems in Shot Peening – A Discussion
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- Electrical and electronic control systems in shot peening equipment have greatly evolved in the last decade. Any peening machine manufactured now has, at the bare minimum, a Programmable Logic Control...
- Understanding the Peening Time Paradox The Key to Uncoupling Intensity and Coverage
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- What I refer to as a time paradox is only a seeming paradox. Time is used in the standard protocol for determining peening intensity, yet intensity itself is independent of time during peening provid...
- Two-Sided, Vertical Shot Peening
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- New commercial aircraft designs are providing additional challenges for component manufacturers and processors. With the rising price of fuel, airline operators have been pushing aircraft manufacture...
- Milestones and Moving Ahead
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 2, Spring 2014
- January 2014 marked the 40th anniversary of Electronics Inc. (EI). I started EI in 1974 with the intent of supplying process controllers to Wheelabrator Air Pollution Control Division for their dust ...
- Surface International: Serving Industries in India and Asia
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- Surface international is a rapidly growing company in the city of Jodhpur in Rajasthan, India. We appreciate that Gargi Maheshwari, who works in the marketing department at Surface International, ans...
- Why Intensity Isn’t Dependent on Exposure Time
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- I recently received an e-mail from someone thanking us for Dr. Kirk’s Curve Solver program, followed by several interesting questions. The shot peening technician (let’s call him SPT) ha...
- Peening’s Value Below the Surface
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- When you use compressed air to fire millions of tiny BBs at engine parts, it makes the metal more durable for years to come. It’s not really visible, but at 10-times magnification, the metal is...
- Industry News: Joe McGreal Promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing / Leaders Recognized at Nadcap Meeting
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- Joe McGreal Promoted to Vice President of Sales and Marketing / Leaders Recognized at Nadcap Meeting...
- ‘Peenability’ of Steel Components
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- INTRODUCTION: Component designers can assess whether or not their components have the capability for service improvement by shot peening. The extent of such improvement can be termed component â�...
- MIT Researchers Discover Self-Healing Metal
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- It was a result so unexpected that MIT researchers initially thought it must be a mistake: Under certain conditions, putting a cracked piece of metal under tension — that is, exerting a force t...
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