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- Shot Peening Education in Japan
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- According to books I've researched on the subject, shot peening may have been introduced in Japan as early as 1935. The process was called "sand blasting" or "steel ball blasting" at that time, not "s...
- RotoMate increases your blasting production!
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- The RotoMate is a unique nozzle manipulator which creates a big circular blast pattern. Driven by a pneumatic motor the nozzle makes a rotating movement and creates a blast pattern of up to 20 inches ...
- Wheelabrator Wire Mesh Belt Provides Astec Underground with Ability to Clean Wide Workpieces
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Burlington, Canada. Astec Underground, based in Loudon, Tenn., builds Case and Trencor brands of trencher machines. When the company bought a former John Deere plant to serve as their new manufacturin...
- Surface finishing-it's all about lookin' good
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Clemco Industries Corp. In the last several issues of The Shot Peener, my articles have been about blasting applications and the different reasons why customers use blasting in their operations or pr...
- Wheel Blast Cleaning - Amperage - Control it and you'll control wear damage, energy and costs
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- This is the third in a series of articles that address the costs savings that can be achieved when the wheel blast cleaning process is controlled. Abrasive blast cleaning machine designers and builde...
- Shot Peening and Spring Life - All Leaves are Critical
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- This bulletin was printed with permission of Dayton Parts. OEM Quality For many years, every major OEM manufacturer has specified shot peening of all leaves on their passenger car and truck springs....
- Failure Investigation of Large Wind Turbine Transmission Housings
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Abstract When a significant percentage of wind turbine housings from a major U.S. manufacturer experienced failures in their first eighteen months of operation, Structural Integrity Associates was re...
- Environment - Opportunity in the Wind
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18 / Issue 4, Fall 2004
- Wind energy. It is abundant, it is endless it is a gift to anyone that is willing to harness it. Its negative impact on our health and the health of the environment is minimal compared to fossil fuels...
- When Shot Peening Practices Go Bad
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18/Issue 1 Spring 2004
- History proves that there are severe consequences for poor shot peening practices in the aerospace industry. In the spring of 1992, three men were sentenced to jail time in a bad-parts case. The case ...
- Residual Stresses in Shot Peened Components
- Year: 2004, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 18/Issue 4 Winter 2004
- Shot peening of components produces a ...
- Relationships between Almen Strip Thickness and Arc Heights
- Year: 2003, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 16 / Issue 4, Winter 2003
- Introduction When clamped Almen strips are being peened, a complex curvature is introduced (see Fig 1) where the vertical scale has been deliberately exaggerated. 'Curvature' is defined as 1/R where R...
- Morphology of Shot Peening Indentations
- Year: 2003, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 17 / Issue 2, Spring 2003
- Introduction 'Morphology' is the science of shape. Shot peening necessarily involves the production of indentations in the component's surface. This article is concerned with the morphology of those i...
- Shot Particle Shapes
- Year: 2003, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 17 / Issue 4, Fall 2003
- INTRODUCTION The ideal shape for a shot particle is a sphere, but real shot particles are not perfect spheres. The most commonly employed media are cast steel and iron shot, cut steel wire shot, glass...
- Surface Heating Caused by Peening
- Year: 2003, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 17 / Issue 3, Summer 2003
- Introduction Shot particles striking a component's surface lose part of their kinetic energy to that surface. This loss of impact energy is to be welcomed. If no energy were lost then the peening wou...
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