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- 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...
- Q& A
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- THE Q & A FORUM at www.shotpeener.com is the ideal place to get advice on a wide range of topics from industry leaders and colleagues from around the world that have tackled and solved your challen...
- New Semi-Automatic Roller Type Shot Blasting Machine
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- The “Fold-Away Tray” made of Sheet Molding Compound (SMC) used in Railway/Aircraft/Automotive Passenger seats requires the removal of stress and roughness before the coating process. MEC SHOT ...
- Work-Hardening During Peening
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- INTRODUCTION Shot peening is normally applied in order to improve the fatigue properties of components. This improvement is due to two factors: (1) Work-hardening of the surface layer and (2) Com...
- Probabilistic Assessment of Shot Peening Impact Coverage
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- Introduction In shot peening, compressive residual stresses are induced through impact events between media and the surface of a component. When designing a shot peening machine and specifying ope...
- Ventilation in Blast Machines
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- Introduction Without an exception, every functional blast machine whether cleaning, peening, or performing a similar action, is ventilated by a dust collector and exhaust fan. This collector takes...
- A Salute to Professor David Kirk
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- While the staff of The Shot Peener is very sorry to lose a valued contributor to the magazine, we recognize that Professor Kirk deserves to retire at 92 years of age! The following are quotes from ...
- Professor David Kirk’s Contribution to My Life
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 2, Spring 2025
- Now that Professor Kirk has announced his retirement from contributing articles to The Shot Peener magazine, I am reminiscing about our long relationship. We all have special people in our lives tha...
- Q& A
- Year: 2025, Source: The Shot Peener magazine, Vol 39, Issue 1, Winter 2025
- THE Q & A FORUM at www.shotpeener.com is the ideal place to get advice on a wide range of topics from industry leaders and colleagues from around the world that have tackled and solved your challen...
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