Many a times I am faced with a very common question,"We are getting the arc height but we are not getting the desired compressive residual stress".The following are the underlying causes: 1.Wrong selection of equipment. 2.Wrong placement of Almen Holder...

I was in Singapore as a Guest Speaker at MFN International workshop.There I had the opportunity to have discussion with Mr.Francois Xavier Abadie of M/S Saint Gobain France.He has been working on the benifits of ceramic shots in shot peening. Few of the...