Description: Learn more about our controlled shot peening process and how our shot peening services can prevent component failure and strengthen a range of different metals.
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Component failure is often related to residual tensile stress induced during manufacture and certain operating conditions. Our controlled shot peening services are a cost effective and practical method of replacing tensile stress with beneficial compressive stress which is proven to prevent failures due to:
Controlled shot peening is a cold working process applied using spherical media known as shot. As each piece of shot hits the surface it creates an indentation where the surface will attempt to yield but is restrained by the substrate material. This conflict causes the substrate material to compress creating a beneficial compressive residual stress which makes the surface resistant to crack initiation and propagation and in the process removes any prior manufacturing tensile stresses.