Grain refinement and arrangement is an effective strategy to enhance tensile and fatigue
properties of key metallic components. Laser shock peening (LSP) is one of surface severe …

During the service of the aircraft, the engine blades are inevitably damaged by the impact of
foreign objects with different properties such as sand particles, which seriously affects the …

Surface treatment methods are widely used in various industries to improve the material
performance and change their physical properties. The methods can be categorised …

Wire-arc directed energy deposition (WADED) technology has been widely used in the
remanufacturing of titanium alloy structural components benefited from with the advantages …

Dry canisters used in nuclear power plants can be subject to localized corrosion, including
stress corrosion cracking. External and residual tensile stress can facilitate the occurrence of …

Welding processing is an important method to connect precision component, but the internal
stress and crystal anisotropy reduce its performance, which are difficult to solve due to the …

Improving fatigue properties of engineering alloys using conventional laser shock peening
(LSP) with protective coating frequently causes surface grain subdivision, which is …

Solid-state metal additive manufacturing (AM) techniques offer unique capabilities for direct
printing of metallic materials towards a variety of applications. In this work, we developed a …

Storage canisters used in nuclear power plants operating in seaside areas—where the salt
content in the atmosphere is high—may be susceptible to chloride-induced stress corrosion …

Laser impact welding (LIW) with water as the confinement layer is investigated for the first
time to join aluminum (Al) and titanium (Ti). A series of experiments of spot welding under …