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Shot Peening?: Improving Resistance To Fatigue

Shot peening is a surface treatment that uses small spherical beads projected at high velocity onto a material's surface to induce compressive residual stresses that increase the material's resistance to fatigue failure from cyclic loads. It works by introducing compressive stresses on the surface that counteract tensile stresses introduced during manufacturing processes like grinding or bending that cause low fatigue life. Shot peening can also reduce stress corrosion cracking and be used for shot peen forming to shape components or correct distortions from heat treatments or machining.

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Shot Peening?: Improving Resistance To Fatigue

Shot peening is a surface treatment that uses small spherical beads projected at high velocity onto a material's surface to induce compressive residual stresses that increase the material's resistance to fatigue failure from cyclic loads. It works by introducing compressive stresses on the surface that counteract tensile stresses introduced during manufacturing processes like grinding or bending that cause low fatigue life. Shot peening can also reduce stress corrosion cracking and be used for shot peen forming to shape components or correct distortions from heat treatments or machining.

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Shot Peening?

Improving Resistance To Fatigue

Shot peening is a process specifically designed to enhance the fatigue


strength of components which are subject to high alternating stress.

Surface treatment procedures like grinding, milling, bending or heat


treatment procedures cause Tensile Residual Stress. This Tensile Residual
Stress leads to low life cycles of the parts.

Different Peening Processes

Shot Peening

 Used to induce residual compressive stress in the surface of


components that are prone to cyclic and repetitive loads, the process also
reduces stress corrosion cracking.

Shot Peen Forming

 This process compresses and extends the superficial layer of the


component causing it to bow. Typical applications include the formation of
skins, wing flaps, access panels, and sections of fuselage.

Correction Of Distortion

 (The reverse of shot peen forming) Shot peening is used to stretch


and compress a localised area to achieve perfect flatness after a part has
been distorted by heat or machining. Complex structural parts, ribs and
spars typically undergo this process.

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