Effect of Plasma Shot Peening on Mechanical Properties and Fatigue life of AL-Alloys 2024-T3

Abstract

An Investigation of estimated Mechanical Properties of AL-Alloys 2024-T3, which is the most commonly used in industrial applications, been established experimentally. A new novel Plasma Peening techniques had applied for the whole surfaces of the material by CNC-Plasma machine for 48 specimen, and then a new investigation were toke over to figure the amount of change in mechanical properties and estimated fatigue life. It found that improvement was showing a nonlinear behavior according to peening duration time, speed, peening distance, peening number, and amount of effected power on the depth of the material thickness. The major improvement was at medium speed long duration time normal peening distance. Which shows up to 5 times improvements than the others cases. It was found that reducing in elongation of about 32% from references for 1x plasma peening for the most techniques used while a reduction in elongation of 56% for the 2x plasma peening. These results illustrated in both tables and figures. Farther study may established for other AL-Alloys to study the effects of plasma peening on it and to found the most effected one of them for the completely nine AL family.