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- Passing the Torch
- Year: 2026, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 40, Issue 1, Winter 2026
- Passing the torch to the next generation is the theme of this opening shot. I remember attending the SAE Fatigue Design & Evaluation (FD&E) meeting in 1985. There were six divisions of this committe...
- Technical Metal Finishing Announces Rebranding to National Peening
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, Fall 2025
- Technical Metal Finishing, a leading provider of metal finishing services, announced its rebranding to National Peening. Previously, Technical Metal Finishing operated in line with National Peening...
- GelSight Launches Modulus Precision Inspection for Previously Inaccessible Places
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, Fall 2025
- GELSIGHT, a pioneer in tactile intelligence technology, has introduced the new GelSight Modulus system to further expand the boundaries of tactile sensing and usher in the next generation of mobile...
- The Appliance of Science
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, Fall 2025
- INTRODUCTION The following is a quotation from a previous article in this series: “Science is almost always able to provide answers to questions about observed phenomena. Consider as examples: �...
- Specifications beyond Aerospace
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, Fall 2025
- AS I START MY 36TH YEAR of gainful employment, 95% of which has been in this industry, like most of you, I too have accumulated many interesting stories. However, this one stands apart and worthy o...
- Practical Application of PALS in Japan (Sub-Nanometer Material Evaluation)
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, Fall 2025
- 1. Introduction Positron annihilation lifetime spectroscopy (PALS) is a technique that can evaluate atomic-level defects and intermolecular space and pore structures with nondestructive and high s...
- Progressive Surface Installs Shot Peening System at Purdue University
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, Fall 2025
- STUDENTS AND RESEARCH TEAMS will be using a cutting-edge shot peening system this fall in Purdue’s Manufacturing and Materials Research Laboratories (MMRL). The shot peening system was built and ...
- Going Forward
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 4, Fall 2025
- MY, HOW TIME FLIES. I remember the launch of The Shot Peener in 1987. Seems like a hundred years ago. It was the result of my effort to advertise. This led to adding names to our database and identi...
- Mec Shot Manufactures Blast Cleaning Machine for Pantograph Contact Strips
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 3, Summer 2025
- A Pantograph Contact Strip is an apparatus mounted on the roof of an electric train, tram or electric bus to collect power through contact with an overhead line. The carbon strip’s friction and w...
- Toyo Seiko Celebrates 50th Anniversary
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 3, Summer 2025
- TOYO SEIKO is celebrating its 50th anniversary in 2025. The company was founded in 1975 as a manufacturer of cut wire media for mechanical descaling machines for wire rods manufactured by its paren...
- Estimate Compressed Layer Depth by Using Almen Peening Intensity
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 3, Summer 2025
- INTRODUCTION Shot peening induces a surface layer that contains compressive residual stress. It is this compressed surface layer that is largely responsible for improved fatigue performance of com...
- Misconceptions in Shot Peening
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 3, Summer 2025
- To err is human, to forgive, especially in shot peening, might need a new saturation curve! Much as we discuss peening fluently within our circles, fundamental concepts of the process continue to b...
- Japan’s Infrastructure Situation and Peening
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 3, Summer 2025
- 1. Background The aging of infrastructure, particularly steel bridges constructed during Japan's period of rapid economic growth (1955-1973), is accelerating and has become a pressing social issue...
- Milestones
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 3, Summer 2025
- Toyo Seiko Celebrates 50th Anniversary Congratulations to Toyo Seiko as they enter their 50th year. The company was founded in 1975 as a manufacturer of cut wire media for mechanical descaling mach...
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