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Title: What You Have Always Wanted To Know About Shot Peening
Author: Whinney, C. D.
Source: SME: Tech. Paper MR79-766
Publication year 1979
Document number: 1979012
Number of pages: 8
Abstract:
Although controlled shot peening was developed in the automotive industry and has been used by the aerospec industry for some time, new applications for this process by the
metalworking industry have greatly expanded in recent years. The primary effects of shot peening are to prevent metal fatigue failures, eliminate porosity and also to form
or change the shape of some parts. There are two types of equipment or systems used for peening: Air-blast and Airless or Centrifugal Wheel. Each have advantages and
disadvantages of their own. Various basic questions about shot peening are answered as well as applications utilizing new automated air-blast systems presented.
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