What is Shot Peening?

Improving Resistance To Fatigue

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.