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Q& A
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
THE Q & A FORUM at www.shotpeener.com is the ideal place to get advice on a wide range of topics from industry leaders and colleagues from around the world that have tackled and solved your challen...

New Semi-Automatic Roller Type Shot Blasting Machine
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
The “Fold-Away Tray” made of Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) used in Railway/Aircraft/Automotive Passenger seats requires the removal of stress and roughness before the coating process. MEC SHOT ...

Work-Hardening During Peening
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
INTRODUCTION Shot peening is normally applied in order to improve the fatigue properties of components. This improvement is due to two factors: (1) Work-hardening of the surface layer and (2) Com...

Probabilistic Assessment of Shot Peening Impact Coverage
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
Introduction In shot peening, compressive residual stresses are induced through impact events between media and the surface of a component. When designing a shot peening machine and specifying ope...

Ventilation in Blast Machines
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
Introduction Without an exception, every functional blast machine whether cleaning, peening, or performing a similar action, is ventilated by a dust collector and exhaust fan. This collector takes...

A Salute to Professor David Kirk
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
While the staff of The Shot Peener is very sorry to lose a valued contributor to the magazine, we recognize that Professor Kirk deserves to retire at 92 years of age! The following are quotes from ...

Professor David Kirk’s Contribution to My Life
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
Now that Professor Kirk has announced his retirement from contributing articles to The Shot Peener magazine, I am reminiscing about our long relationship. We all have special people in our lives tha...

Q& A
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
THE Q & A FORUM at www.shotpeener.com is the ideal place to get advice on a wide range of topics from industry leaders and colleagues from around the world that have tackled and solved your challen...

Two Strip Setting-Up and Verification Program for Peening Intensity
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
INTRODUCTION The most accurate method of estimating peening intensity is to produce and analyze a saturation curve constructed from the arc heights of four (or preferably more) peened Almen strips...

Malyn, the Last U.S. Manufacturer of Boron Carbide Nozzles, is on the Market
Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
Michael Malyn, owner and President of Malyn Industrial Ceramics, Inc. (MICI), has announced his retirement and his plans to sell the company. “My wife, Patricia, and I started this business 38 ye...

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