The invention provides a laser shock processing method for small-hole component with different thickness. In this method, different process parameters are adopted for laser shock processing of small hole members with different thicknesses, and the empirical formula was obtained by statistical analysis of the experimental results, and the empirical formula $I_0=A{e}^{\frac{t}{B}}\frac{{\sigma }_s^2}{Z}$
is the relationship between power density and thickness of small hole members. According to this formula, the power density of laser shock strengthening of orifice member with different thickness is determined, and the selection and determination method of process parameters related to this is put forward. According to this method, reasonable residual compressive stress distribution can be obtained after laser shock strengthening with appropriate technology, and good strengthening effect can be achieved.

The present invention is a system of concurrent, adjacent heat treatment and vigorous cooling in section-annealing of metal workpieces. The invention process is especially advantageous in induction heating for annealing of one section of a workpiece while maintaining relatively non-annealed properties in an adjacent section.

A method of forming a component having a cross-section with a bend radius includes providing a work-piece blank from press-hardened steel (PHS). The method also includes austenitizing the work-piece blank in a furnace via heating the strip of sheet metal to achieve therein an austenite microstructure, including soaking the work-piece blank for a predetermined amount of time. The method additionally includes quenching the austenitized work-piece blank to achieve therein a martensitic matrix microstructure with dispersed chromium-enriched carbide. The method also includes roll-forming the austenitized and quenched work-piece blank to generate the cross-section and the bend radius. The method may further include locally heating the bend radius area during the roll-forming of the cross-section to reduce an amount of chromium-enriched carbide in the martensitic matrix microstructure inside the bend radius area relative to the microstructure outside the bend, and thereby generating the component having high strength, ductility, and wear resistance.

Methods and masks for manufacturing component of gas turbine engines are described. The methods include applying a mask to a protected surface of the component, the component having a designated surface to be treated by a shot peen operation. The mask includes a full masking portion configured to prevent a shot peen media from impacting the protected surface. A masking control region is arranged around the designated surface. The masking control region is configured to control an amount of force imparted to the component by shot peen media during the shot peen operation, wherein the masking control region extends from the full masking portion to the designated surface. The designated surface is shot peened with shot peen media to form a compressive stress region within the component proximate the designated surface and a tapering transition of compressive forces within the component proximate the masking control region.

The present disclosure relates to a thick steel material that can be appropriately used as a line pipe, a sour-resistant material and, more particularly, to a high-strength steel material having excellent sulfide stress corrosion cracking resistance and excellent resistance against propagation of sulfide stress corrosion cracking, and a method of manufacturing the steel material.

A process of producing a partially hardened metallic formed part comprises: heating a semi-finished product of hardenable hot-formable steel sheet to a hardening temperature; hot-forming the heated semi-finished product in a combined hot-forming cutting device into a three-dimensional formed part; cutting the formed part in the combined hot-forming cutting device; pressure-hardening the formed part in the hot-forming cutting device into a hardened formed part such that a first partial region is hardened by rapid cooling and that a second partial region of the formed part is heat-treated so as to comprise a greater ductility and a lower strength than the first partial region, wherein the operation of cutting the formed part takes place at least in one of the first and second partial region. A combined hot-forming cutting device can be used to produce a metallic formed part.

Systems and methods are described for roll-forming metal substrates. The metal substrates are subjected to induction heating during the roll-forming process by exposure to time-varying magnetic fields, such as by exposure to a rotating permanent magnet, or exposure to laser radiation from a laser source. Heating of the metal substrates allows improved formability or plasticity of the substrate in order to reduce or eliminate damage to the substrate during roll-forming to low bending radius to thickness ratios. Heating of the high-strength metal substrates can also function to temper the substrates and/or improve surface corrosion resistance and form high-strength end products with desirable properties.

The present invention provides a simple, cost effective and hassle-free method and apparatus for modifying the surface grain structure of the material, thereby providing a material with multi-modal grain structure having high strength and good formability. The present invention uses a single step processing technique known as submerged static friction stir processing for modifying the surface grain structure of the material, thereby generating a multi-modal grain structure. In the present invention since the working material is completely immersed in the coolant, this maintains the working temperature of the system. Further the present invention does not involve long processing steps and do not need any specialized equipments.

A laser shock and supersonic vibration extrusion co-strengthening device and method. The device comprises a laser assembly, a vibration assembly, a hydraulic assembly and a connecting assembly. The method strengthens a hole (7) formed in a metal sheet (5) simultaneously by laser shock strengthening and supersonic vibration extrusion strengthening; a mandrel (1) is in clearance fit with the hole to constrain the hole, so as to avoid distortion of the hole and a hole angle when the laser shock is performed on an outer surface of a workpiece and to improve the strengthening effect of a hole wall; when the laser shock is performed on the outer surface of the metal sheet, supersonic vibration is applied by the mandrel in the hole; and a three-dimensional pressure stress distribution nearby the hole wall at a certain depth is formed under an interaction produced by power ultrasound and laser shock waves having a certain frequency, amplitude and modality, so that an inner surface having higher anti-fatigue performance and being smoother is provided to the hole. Defects of a traditional strengthening process are overcome, and the problem in strengthening the hole separately through the laser shock or supersonic vibration extrusion is solved.

A hot stamp tool including an annealing die and a hot forming die. A blank is placed in the hot forming die with a first transfer arm where it is formed and quenched into a shaped part. The shaped part is then moved from the hot forming die to the annealing die with a second transfer arm. In the annealing die, the shaped part continues to be cooled. The annealing die includes a heating element that heats a portion of the shaped part to the point of annealing to form an annealed part. The annealed part includes a non-annealed portion and an annealed portion with a transition zone between the annealed portion and the non-annealed portion. The annealed portion can then be deformed.