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Advanced Metal Treatment Technologies
Shot Peening bombards a metal surface with small metal or ceramic balls called “shot.” Each piece of shot striking the material acts as a tiny peening hammer, compressing and stretching the metal’s surface. The process greatly enhances the durability of the metal and extends the service life of critical components in aerospace, automotive and industrial applications. Shot peen forming takes the process one step further, enabling the metal stretching to precisely shape aerodynamic curvatures in aluminum aircraft wing skins.
Laser Peening impacts a metal surface with 4 times deeper benefit than shot peening, providing unprecedented resistance to fatigue and stress corrosion failure. Developed in partnership with Lawrence Livermore National Laboratories, potential applications have
emerged for turbine engines, civil and military aircraft structures, nuclear power generation and waste disposal, petroleum drilling, and medical implants. We operate laser peening facilities in the United States and United Kingdom and will introduce our mobile laser in 2005
to provide this unique technology to customers on site.
Specialty Coatings provide lubrication, corrosion and oxidation resistance for metal components, which enhances their operating performance and longevity. Curtiss-Wright formulates proprietary coatings and applies them to steel, titanium and aluminum components
utilized in automotive, aerospace and other industrial applications.
Heat Treating relieves internal stresses and improves the overall strength, ductility and hardness of fabricated metal parts. Curtiss-Wright specializes in the thermal processing of aluminum, titanium and alloy steel components used in aerospace, automotive and general industrial markets. Our facilities have heat treating capabilities and quality approvals specific to their local
customer base.
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