Naval / Heavy Industry

During economics downturn, cost savings due to longer operation life, and higher uptime, of heavy and expensive equipments are more than welcome.

SONATS offers adequate shot peening and needle peening solutions for improving the fatigue life and/or the Stress Cracking Corrosion protection of your welded assets, reducing the Maintenance and Repair requirements.

Typical applications for Ultrasonic Shot Peening include :

• Diesel Engine Fatigue sensitive parts
• Cam shafts
• Crank shafts and counterweights
• Connecting rods
• Propulsion Turbine Fatigue sensitive parts
• Shafts
• Gears
• Propeller
• (not exhaustive)

Typical applications for Ultrasonic Needle Peening include :

• Ship Rudder
• Earth-mover critical structure components subject to high cyclic loads
• Other welded structural components