A repaired article includes a body extending between a first side and a second side. The body has a repair section with an associated thickness between the first side and the second side. The repair section includes regions of plastic deformation distributed through the thickness. A gas turbine engine including the body is also disclosed.

A unique sequence of steps is provided to reduce contaminants along one or more surfaces and faces of gold evaporative sources without deleteriously impacting the structure of the gold evaporative sources. Edges are deburred; contaminants are successfully removed therealong; and surface smoothness is substantially retained. The resultant gold evaporative source is suitable for use in evaporative processes as a precursor to gold film deposition without the occurrence or a substantial reduction in the likelihood of spitting by virtue of significantly reduced levels of contaminants, in comparison to gold evaporative sources subject to a standard cleaning protocol.

A unique sequence of steps is provided to reduce contaminants along one or more surfaces and faces of gold evaporative sources without deleteriously impacting the structure of the gold evaporative sources. Edges are deburred; contaminants are successfully removed therealong; and surface smoothness is substantially retained. The resultant gold evaporative source is suitable for use in evaporative processes as a precursor to gold film deposition without the occurrence or a substantial reduction in the likelihood of spitting by virtue of significantly reduced levels of contaminants, in comparison to gold evaporative sources subject to a standard cleaning protocol.

In some examples, a material may be subject to shot peening of a relatively long duration to improve cavitation erosion resistance of the material. For example, the material surface may be shot peened to cause grain reduction and an increase in hardness to a depth of 60 m or more, while the surface remains relatively smooth. As one example, the method may include treating a surface of austenitic stainless steel by impacting the surface with shot media for a treatment duration of 15 to 40 minutes at a shot peening intensity corresponding to an Almen strip type A intensity of 5A to 10A.

A method of forming a component includes heating the component to a burnishing temperature above 500 degrees Fahrenheit, and burnishing a surface of the component while the component is at the burnishing temperature to densify the surface. The burnishing process at an elevated temperature may be integrated into other processes, such as the sintering or heat treating processes.

A method of forming a component includes heating the component to a burnishing temperature above 500 degrees Fahrenheit, and burnishing a surface of the component while the component is at the burnishing temperature to densify the surface. The burnishing process at an elevated temperature may be integrated into other processes, such as the sintering or heat treating processes.

A shock strut for a landing gear assembly that includes a hollow cylinder having a first bearing surface and a piston having a second bearing surface. The piston is configured to move within the hollow cylinder such that the second bearing surface slides relative to the first bearing surface. One of the first and second bearing surfaces includes a non-metallic material and the other of the first and second bearing surfaces includes cold worked titanium.

This invention concerns a burnishing head for smooth rolling of the ring-shaped flat end faces (3, 4) at the thrust bearing of crankshafts by means of two cylindrical burnishing rollers (1, 2) which are arranged to be rotated and are side by side in parallel to each other within a burnishing head housing (12) that is pivotable about its longitudinal axis (20) to reach its the working position. Each burnishing roller (1, 2) is pivoted in a cage (10, 11) which is provided in the burnishing head housing (12) with low play (13) and lateral relocatability.

A method of sizing a cavity in a part and a part made from such method. The method includes forming the part having the cavity, including forming a plurality of protrusions extending within the cavity from at least one internal surface of the cavity, the protrusions having distal ends bordering an unobstructed portion of the cavity, the unobstructed portion having an initial dimension at least partially defined by a position of the distal ends, pressing a deforming element against the distal ends of the protrusions to plastically deform the protrusions toward the at least one internal surface of the cavity and increase the initial dimension to a final dimension, and disengaging the deforming element from the distal ends.

A device and methods are provided for deep rolling. In one embodiment, a deep rolling tool for applying compressive stress with rolling elements includes a fork having a base section and a plurality of fork arms, each fork arm extends outwardly from the base section and the fork arms are separated from one another to form an opening. The deep rolling tool may also include rolling elements, wherein each rolling element is mounted at the distal end of a fork arm, and the rolling elements are configured to apply a compressive stress to articles received by the deep rolling tool.