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Articles from The Shot Peener magazine
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- Robot-Controlled Shot Peening System for Landing Gear Overhaul
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- The Processing of Aircraft Chassis The landing gear is the only aircraft system without built-in redundancy which means that 100% reliability of operation must be ensured for the pilot, crew and pa...
- Verification of Peening Intensity
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- Verification of peening intensity is described in SAE J443 using just the three paragraphs of section 3.5. This article attempts to provide a much fuller explanation of the basic issues involved when ...
- Ultrasound to Improve Metals
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- Ultrasonic Impact Technology (UIT) by Applied Ultrasonics uses ultrasonic energy and mechanical impact to improve metals. The ultrasonic device oscillates at a rate of 27,000 times a second, making i...
- Shot Peening’s Contribution to Blast Cleaning Equipment
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- While this article’s headline suggests that blast cleaning is somehow dependent on shot peening, the truth is shot peening might not exist if it weren’t for blast cleaning. For those wh...
- Purdue University Announces the Launch of the Center for Surface Engineering and Enhancement
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- Purdue University has announced their vision to be the leading industry-university research alliance for the metal surface finishing industry. The embodiment of their vision is the Center for Surface ...
- Modern Technology Reproduces Ancient Japanese Art Technique
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- Nashiji is a form of Japanese lacquer work used to create the background of a pattern. The technique is very old—it flourished in the Muromachi period (1338–1573) in Japan. To create nas...
- Protecting Against Component Failure
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- Many of our readers are familiar with the shot peening, laser peening and peen forming services of the Metal Improvement Company (MIC). The company has been in business since 1945 and has 40 job shop...
- A Match Made in Testing: Equipment Solutions for Shot Peening Tasks
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- Ron Wright, Automated Airblast & Peening Manager at Wheelabrator, explains how to find the right process and equipment for any given shot peening task—and the methods that help in making the be...
- Articles of Particular Interest
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 4, Fall 2015
- Dr. Kirk’s “Verification of Peening Intensity†Peening machine parameters are established by experimental settings of machine variables and submitting Almen test strips to the blas...
- Industry News
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 3, Summer 2015
- ITAMCO Engineer Receives SME Award, New Pass-Through Shot Peening System, EI Shot Peening Training Student Receives College Credit...
- Metal Made Like Plastic May Have Big Impact
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 3, Summer 2015
- Open a door and watch what happens—the hinge allows it to open and close, but doesn’t permanently bend. This simple concept of mechanical motion is vital for making all kinds of movable...
- Profile Industries Separates Itself From the Crowd
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 3, Summer 2015
- While many manufacturers are still using traditional marketing methods, Profile Industries has developed a strong digital and social media presence. Their online marketing efforts are geared to engine...
- Limpet Teeth: The Newest Strongest Material Known to Man?
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 3, Summer 2015
- In the last issue of The Shot Peener, we listed the Top Ten strongest materials known to man with Darwin Bark spiders’ silk as the toughest biological substance. Well, move over Darwin Bark spi...
- The Top 10 Manufacturing Trends in 2015
- Year: 2015, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 29, Issue 3, Summer 2015
- 2015 is shaping up to be a pivotal year for the global manufacturing industry. Manufacturing plants are not longer dirty, dark and dangerous places to work; they house some of the world’s most ...
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