WIT Press

Laser Shock Processing To Improve Mechanical Properties Of Metallic Materials

Price

Free (open access)

Volume

17

Pages

10

Published

1997

Size

928 kb

Paper DOI

10.2495/SURF970261

Copyright

WIT Press

Author(s)

P. Peyre, R. Fabbro & L. Berthe

Abstract

Laser shock processing (LSP) is a newly developed surface treatment to provide residual stress fields in metallic materials using laser-induced high pressure surface plasmas. First of all, it is shown in this paper that most of the physical and mechanical aspects of LSP have been investigated recently for different process configurations, resulting in a good global understanding of the phenomena involved. By having a short overview on many recent studies involving LSP, some general features could be drawn about the ability of the process to harden and strengthen metallic materials. Particular attention was given to the residual stress~fields induced on several industrial metals. Lastly, fatigue applications on different Aluminum alloys and stee

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