Laser shock peening using low energy laser

A method of laser shock peening a gas turbine engine object continuously firing a stationary laser beam, which repeatably pulses between relatively constant periods, on a portion of the object with a low power laser beam, on the order of 3-10 joules, to vaporize material on the surface of a portion...

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Hauptverfasser:	MANNAVA, SEETHARAMAIAH, KELLEY, JAMES G, ROCKSTROH, TODD J
Format:	Patent
Sprache:	eng
Schlagworte:	BLASTING CHEMICAL SURFACE TREATMENT CHEMISTRY CLADDING OR PLATING BY SOLDERING OR WELDING COATING BY VACUUM EVAPORATION, BY SPUTTERING, BY ION IMPLANTATIONOR BY CHEMICAL VAPOUR DEPOSITION, IN GENERAL COATING MATERIAL WITH METALLIC MATERIAL COATING METALLIC MATERIAL CUTTING BY APPLYING HEAT LOCALLY, e.g. FLAME CUTTING DIFFUSION TREATMENT OF METALLIC MATERIAL ENGINE PLANTS IN GENERAL GENERAL DEVICES FOR HEAT TREATMENT OF FERROUS OR NON-FERROUSMETALS OR ALLOYS HEATING INHIBITING CORROSION OF METALLIC MATERIAL OR INCRUSTATION INGENERAL LIGHTING MACHINE TOOLS MACHINES OR ENGINES IN GENERAL MAKING METAL MALLEABLE BY DECARBURISATION, TEMPERING OR OTHERTREATMENTS MECHANICAL ENGINEERING METAL-WORKING NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR METALLURGY METALLURGY OF IRON MODIFYING THE PHYSICAL STRUCTURE OF FERROUS METALS MULTI-STEP PROCESSES FOR SURFACE TREATMENT OF METALLICMATERIAL INVOLVING AT LEAST ONE PROCESS PROVIDED FOR IN CLASSC23 AND AT LEAST ONEPROCESS COVERED BY SUBCLASS C21D OR C22F OR CLASS C25 NON-MECHANICAL REMOVAL OF METALLIC MATERIAL FROM SURFACE NON-POSITIVE DISPLACEMENT MACHINES OR ENGINES, e.g. STEAMTURBINES PERFORMING OPERATIONS SOLDERING OR UNSOLDERING STEAM ENGINES TRANSPORTING WEAPONS WELDING WORKING BY LASER BEAM
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Zusammenfassung:	A method of laser shock peening a gas turbine engine object continuously firing a stationary laser beam, which repeatably pulses between relatively constant periods, on a portion of the object with a low power laser beam, on the order of 3-10 joules, to vaporize material on the surface of a portion of a part made of a strong hard metal, such as a titanium alloy. Laser pulses around small laser beam spots, on the order of 1 mm in diameter, are used to vaporize material on the surface of the portion of the object with the pulses around laser beam spots formed by the laser beam on the surface and form a region having deep compressive residual stresses extending into the object from the laser shock peened surface. Flowing a curtain of water over the surface upon which the laser beam is firing while preferably moving the object until the laser shock peened surface is completely covered by laser beam spots at least once. The surface may be coated with an ablative coating such as a paint which is suitable to produce the plasma or the surface may be unpainted and the metal of the object is used to produce the plasma.