Increasing Endurance of Magnesium Castings by Surface Work
Author: Found, George H.
Source: Metal Progress, Aug. '51
Doc ID: 1951015
Year of Publication: 1951
Abstract:
Cold working the surface of metals to improve fatigue strength has been an intriguing subject of study for 25 years, and in the last ten, such treatments have become a common manufacturing operation among steel users. They have extended thelife and usefulness of many parts. Automobile springs and gears, railroad axles, and other steel articles highly stressed by alternating loads, are shot peened or surface rolled as a common practice.
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