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- Coverage Science
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 4, Fall 2019
- INTRODUCTION Science is almost always able to provide answers to questions about observed phenomena. Consider as examples: “Why are snowflakes sometimes large and sometimes small?â€,...
- Self-Peening of Titanium Alloys with Ti-Based Shot
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 4, Fall 2019
- Introduction Surface contamination from shot peening is a well accepted, but less often reported, consequence of shot-based surface modification processes. Residue from shot material on treated ...
- Fatigue Testing Guidelines
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 4, Fall 2019
- These guidelines are a collaboration between Dave Breuer (Curtiss-Wright Surface Technologies) and Charlie Li(Dante Solutions). Since most shot-peened components receive heat treatment, Mr. Breuer and...
- Breaking New Ground with Shot Peening
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 4, Fall 2019
- In the Spring 2014 edition of The Shot Peener, we debated the sophistication of control systems in shot peening equipment, particularly with respect to CNCs, PC-based interfaces and the capabilitie...
- Additive Manufacturing at Sandwell UK
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 4, Fall 2019
- It was some 20 years ago that I purchased two SLA machines for my employer. We were primarily developing quarter- and third-scale wing profiles for wind tunnel testing. It was the quickest method ...
- Adding Additive Manufacturing to Your Toolbox
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 4, Fall 2019
- Should Additive Manufacturing (AM) be in a shot peening facility’s toolbox? I sought answers at a recent Additive Manufacturing Summit hosted by ITAMCO (Indiana Technology and Manufacturing ...
- A Vision Come True
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 4, Fall 2019
- A Vision Come True The Surface Engineering and Advanced Materials Processing Conference held at Purdue University this spring had a special significance to me. I have wanted to establish a shot ...
- Blast Cleaning Steam Turbine Diaphragms
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 3, Summer 2019
- MARKET: Power Generation APPLICATION: Refurbishing steam turbine diaphragms using abrasive blast cleaning THE CHALLENGE: A major supplier to the power generation industry wanted to ...
- RESEARCH: Steam Turbines and Low Plasticity Burnishing
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 3, Summer 2019
- Turbines provide 80% of the world’s electricity. Repeated exposure to high vibratory stresses and extreme steam environments leads to stress corrosion cracking and fatigue failure in steam t...
- Drum Shot Blasting Machines at Sinto America’s Test Center
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 3, Summer 2019
- Sinto America ’s Surface Treatment Test Center, a design and engineering operation for customer-specific applications, is located at our Grand Ledge, Michigan facility. Sinto’s test c...
- Clemco Goes Green
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 3, Summer 2019
- Clemco Industries has received a $47,348.12 incentive from Ameren Missouri’s BizSavers® program. Ameren Missouri is an American power company. It covers 64 counties and more than 500 comm...
- Hardness Matters
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 3, Summer 2019
- INTRODUCTION Hardness, for shot peeners, is resistance to localized plastic deformation induced by impacting shot particles. We therefore have two areas of interest: the hardness of the compone...
- A Happy Customer
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 3, Summer 2019
- Following a two-year study, a major automotive parts manufacturer converted their multiple shot peening machines, one at a time, from cast steel peening shot to Pellets stainless steel (302/304 al...
- Panel Wiring: Re-Routing
- Year: 2019, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 33, Issue 3, Summer 2019
- Thinking back before the smartphone, many people used a GPS when traveling out of town. I had a Garmin and she did a great job, most of the time. I referred to the GPS as “she†because ...
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