The PEC’s Shot Peening facility enhances metal fatigue properties through surface treatment of a range of metallic parts. The purpose of Shot Peening is to provide cold working by inducing compression stresses on a metallic surface. The residual stresses, deriving from machining, welding or any other operation can, as a result, be modified. Shot Peening is specifically used for Titanium-based Alloys, High Alloy or Tool Steels and Corrosion Resistance Steels (CRES), to reduce the shrinkage stresses, to avoid formation of shrinkage cracks and also the effect of fatigue or cyclic load/stresses.
Shot Peening is an excellent method for improving resistance to fatigue, stress corrosion cracking, and galling.
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