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- Building the Procedure
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 4, Fall 2026
- The two cases in the first part describe processes that work once the procedure is already established. They do not say how you get there. That is the part worth spelling out, because the procedure...
- In Memory of Holger Polanetzki
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 4, Fall 2026
- It is with profound sadness that we announce the passing of our highly respected and beloved colleague, Holger Polanetzki. A brilliant Engineer of Metallurgy, Holger dedicated much of his life to a...
- Building the Pipeline
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 4, Fall 2026
- ANJALI’S SUMMER There is a particular kind of silence that follows when you tell a sixteen-year-old you are available every evening to discuss shot peening intensity and coverage. It is not the c...
- One Baseline, Fewer Errors: Why aerospace shot peening specifications should converge on AMS2430 and AMS2432
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 4, Fall 2026
- HOW I ARRIVED AT THIS VIEW Before 2001, before shot peening became a special process audited through Nadcap, prime audits often lacked a clear, consistent structure. In my experience, one audit cou...
- Profile Characterization of Surface Roughness in Shot Peening: There are more parameters besides Ra
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 4, Fall 2026
- INTRODUCTION TO ROUGHNESS Roughness is a term frequently encountered in the context of surface evaluation, yet it represents merely a component of surface texture. The overall surface structure of ...
- sentenso PeenBot From Customized Processes to Smart Machines
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 4, Fall 2026
- Modern peening systems must do more than just automated peening. They must make complex processes manageable, repeatable and cost-effective. With the PeenBot, sentenso takes an application-oriented...
- Opening Shot
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 4, Fall 2026
- For a while now, this column, and the magazine as a whole, has carried one or two editor bylines. That’s changing. Starting with this issue, the magazine isn’t just being put together by one edi...
- Coverage: Development, Measurement, Control & Significance
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 3, Summer 2026
- INTRODUCTION The prime objective with shot peening is to induce a ‘skin’ of compressively-stressed material that will improve the service performance of components. A necessary corollary of pe...
- Saturation Curves and Process Design
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 3, Summer 2026
- INTRODUCTION I am afraid that I must start by sounding like that person I was hoping I would not become, the reminiscing old shot peener, but here we are! For those of us that have spent considerab...
- Winoa and Toyo Seiko to Launch a Fully Integrated Heat Treatment Line for High Durability Cut Wire in Altena, Germany
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 3, Summer 2026
- Altena, Germany – Thursday 23rd April – Winoa and Toyo Seiko today announce the commissioning of a new fully integrated heat treatment (HD) line at its Center of Competence for Cut Wire in Alte...
- ICSP16 Set for Gifu, Japan in September 2028
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 3, Summer 2026
- INTRODUCTION The global shot peening community has its sights set on Japan as details begin to roll out for the 16th International Conference on Shot Peening (ICSP16). Organized by the Japan Socie...
- The Almen Strip: An 80+ Year Journey of Setting a Standard
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 3, Summer 2026
- INTRODUCTION After intense work, shot-peening engine valve springs for durability, John O. Almen filed for the “Shot Blasting Test”- Patent in 1942. On June 6th 1944 the patent was granted und...
- Opening Shot
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 3, Summer 2026
- Eighty years is a long time for anything to hold its ground in manufacturing. Processes change, materials evolve, and the tools we rely on are constantly being reconsidered, which makes the Almen st...
- 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...
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