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- 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...
- Mobile Laser Peening: Extending the Service Life of the F-22
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- Metal Improvement Company (MIC), a business unit of Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies, has developed a mobile laser peening service that is capable of peening large work pieces, such as aircraft, o...
- HVOF Process Control Study with Almen Strips
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- Almen strips are recognized as the industry-standard tools for achieving process control in shot peening. The test coupons are now getting attention in the field of High Velocity Oxygen Fuel (HVOF) co...
- Mini-Strip Research Presented at U.S. Shot Peening Workshop
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- Kelly McClurg presented the results of the first phase of her mini-strip validation program at the 2013 U.S. Shot Peening Workshop. Ms. McClurg is a Materials Engineer for Avion Solutions, Inc. in Hun...
- Specification for Success
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- Scott Hatfield is self-deprecating and quick to give others credit for a job well done. But ask him about his involvement with the shot peening program at Medtronic Spinal and his contributions to it...
- Six Things I Learned While Working on the This Shot Peener
- Year: 2014, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 28, Issue 1, Winter 2014
- Scott Hatfield is a true “Shot Peening Subject Matter Expert.†Scott was nominated as our 2013 Shot Peener of the Year because of his work on the SAE Surface Enhancement Committee and his...
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