This article describes the path to commercialization for laser shock peening beginning with
the discovery of the basic phenomenology of the process through to its implementation as a …

Shot peening is a well known process applied to components in order to improve their
fatigue resistance. In recent years, there has been an increasing interest in including the …

Mechanical failure frequently initiates at the grain level, at which intra-granular stresses are
of paramount importance. Under cyclic loading conditions regions within grains that …

The study of residual stress has long been an important research field in science and
engineering, due to the fact that uncontrolled residual stresses are detrimental to the …

Numerical modelling of the residual stresses and strains within mechanical components is of
great importance for improving the quality and reliability of design for structural integrity. A …

The influence of the process parameters of laser shock peening was investigated on
specimens made of an aeronautic titanium alloy: Ti–5Al–2Sn–2Zr–4Cr–4Mo (Ti-17). In order …

Most manufacturing industries routinely perform mechanical surface treatments at the end of
the manufacturing chain to protect important working parts. Shot peening is probably the …

Residual stresses play a crucial role in determining material properties and behaviour, in
terms of structural integrity under monotonic and cyclic loading, and for functional …

We present the formulation for finding the distribution of eigenstrains, ie the sources of
residual stress, from a set of measurements of residual elastic strain (eg by diffraction), or …

Shot-peening-induced compressive residual stresses are often introduced in Ni-base
superalloy components to help prevent or retard surface fatigue crack initiation and early …