Burnishing and peening machines impart compressive residual stresses, which improves fatigue strength and corrosion resistance. These surface enhancement machines deform and strengthen a metal surface ...

Laser shock peening is a surface treatment process for increasing the strength and reliability of metal components. Traditionally applied to aircraft parts, the technology also shows great ...

Shot Peening: Techniques and Applications covers aspects such as the techniques, equipment and origins of shot peening, problems faced during shot peening and the applications of shot peening.

Peening shot and beads are small metal balls or glass beads that are used to impact compressive stresses into part surfaces and to deburr sharp edges without removing material. Induced compressive ...

However, this approach would be greatly restricted by the relatively expensive REE. Shot peening (SP) was a mechanical surface treatment method, which not only can effectively enhance fatigue strength ...

Abstract: There is a need in industry to supply safe, economical, and reliable techniques to characterize surface treatments such as case hardening and peening of steel components and structures, both ...

We would all like to 3D print in metal, but for now, the equipment to do that is out of reach for most of us. Instead of dealing with powder printers or metal-bearing polymers, [Robert] has a ...