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- Wet Shot Peening as a Process Choice for Aerospace Components
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 2, Spring 2026
- INTRODUCTION Shot peening is one of the most established surface enhancement processes in aerospace engineering because its underlying mechanism is well understood and industrially robust. Repeated i...
- Ultimate Guide to Measuring Hardness: Best Practices for Reliable Almen-Strip Testing
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 2, Spring 2026
- INTRODUCTION Accurate hardness testing is critical for quality control in shot peening and related processes. SAE-J422 dictates using Rockwell to measure hardness (HRc for A strips and HRa for N s...
- Re-Engineering Shot Peening: From Manual Air Nozzles to Automated Wheel Systems
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 2, Spring 2026
- INTRODUCTION Shot peening rarely attracts attention outside specialist circles, yet it quietly protects the parts that matter most. When an aircraft structure survives a long service life, or when a ...
- Development and Validation of Velocity-Intensity Correlation for Shot Peening Media Using Shotmeter G3
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 2, Spring 2026
- INTRODUCTION Repeatable and accurate shot peening results rely on closed-loop monitoring and control of critical process parameters. Fundamentally, the transfer of energy during shot peening can be s...
- Reflecting on the Evolution of the Shot Peening Process
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 2, Spring 2026
- INTRODUCTION A ’state of the union’ assessment is essential every few years and starts with identifying our starting point, followed by tracing our path to the present. The origin of this journey...
- Technical Service Training: New from E.I. Training Division
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 2, Spring 2026
- Technical support in our industry often follows a familiar pattern. You discover an issue with your peening machine. You call EI, and troubleshooting begins over the phone. You uninstall the MagnaValv...
- Stepping Forward
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 2, Spring 2026
- My introduction to shot peening was not exactly traditional. I joined EI as an intern and spent my first two years in research and development before I ever touched a shot peening machine. My early ex...
- X-Ray Residual Stress Measurements of Shot Peened Components
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- INTRODUCTION It is a paradox that we cannot measure residual stresses directly. Measurements of strain can be made, which are then converted into stress using available elastic constant values. Th...
- Are We Partial to Airblast Peening?
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- THE OBVIOSITY OF THIS QUESTION IS STRIKING. For those of you who wish to check the existence of this unique word, “obviosity,” do not bother, I admit that it is a non-standard word, much like t...
- Viking Wheel Blast Systems Launches the SD-MAX 1600 A Smarter, Stronger Blast Wheel for Heavy-Duty Performance
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- Rose Hill, KS – September 2025 — Viking Wheel Blast Systems proudly announces the launch of its latest innovation: the SD-MAX 1600 Blast Wheel. Designed for exceptional durability, reduced main...
- Dr. Kirk Retrospective: Alternative Scaling of Almen Strip Saturation Curves
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- INTRODUCING THE DR. KIRK RETROSPECTIVES Dr. David Kirk’s articles in The Shot Peener have long been among the most valuable resources for both new members of the peening community and its seasoned...
- Walter Beach Named Chair of SAE Committees
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- Peening Technologies of Connecticut’s Vice President, Walter A. Beach, has been named Chairperson of the SAE Surface Enhancement Committee and the Aerospace Surface Enhancement Committee. He succ...
- ICSP15 Recap
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- On September 22, 2025, Purdue University welcomed 150 attendees from 10 nations to the 15th International Conference on Shot Peening. Held in West Lafayette, Indiana, the ICSP spanned four days mar...
- 2025 Shot Peener of the Year Dr. Langdon Feltner
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- THE 2025 SHOT PEENER OF THE YEAR award goes to Dr. Langdon Feltner, a rising voice within the shot peening community whose work is reshaping how the industry approaches variability, sensing, and di...
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