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 fatigue strength and life cycle. It works by converting tensile residual stresses, which are introduced through other manufacturing processes and cause early failure, into compressive residual stresses that improve the part's ability to withstand cyclic and repetitive loads. Shot peening has additional applications including shot peen forming to shape components and correction of distortion to achieve flatness in parts affected by heat or machining.
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 fatigue strength and life cycle. It works by converting tensile residual stresses, which are introduced through other manufacturing processes and cause early failure, into compressive residual stresses that improve the part's ability to withstand cyclic and repetitive loads. Shot peening has additional applications including shot peen forming to shape components and correction of distortion to achieve flatness in parts affected by heat or machining.
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 fatigue strength and life cycle. It works by converting tensile residual stresses, which are introduced through other manufacturing processes and cause early failure, into compressive residual stresses that improve the part's ability to withstand cyclic and repetitive loads. Shot peening has additional applications including shot peen forming to shape components and correction of distortion to achieve flatness in parts affected by heat or machining.
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 fatigue strength and life cycle. It works by converting tensile residual stresses, which are introduced through other manufacturing processes and cause early failure, into compressive residual stresses that improve the part's ability to withstand cyclic and repetitive loads. Shot peening has additional applications including shot peen forming to shape components and correction of distortion to achieve flatness in parts affected by heat or machining.
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.
Shot Peening converts Tensile Residual Stress into Compressive Residual
Stress which leads to significant increases in the life cycle of parts and their maximum load capacities.
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.