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Longer Lasting Metals for Automotive Manufacturing

Laser peening can safeguard engine components to keep automotive production and manufacturing lines humming.

Enhanced Cracking Resistance
Fatigue Life
Improvement
Increase Reliability
Improve Aging
Automotive Parts
Weight Reduction
Improved Fuel Economy

Automotive Applications

Laser peening is applied to improve material characteristics and performance of many automotive and truck parts.

Rotating Components
Valves
Transmission Gears
Axles
Crankshafts
Impellers
Springs
Turbochargers

Figure 1: Rotating Components

Auto parts share a 10x longer lease on life from laser peening, just like other components, even at high motor temperatures, where thermal fatigue can impose a high cost of failure.

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An Edge in Automotive Solutions

On the production line or in competitive vehicle componenets, laser peening protections make parts last longer.

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Up to 10x Component Life Improvement
Prevents Costly Failures
Precisely Controlled and Localized Process
Decreases Downtime
Enables the Design of Lighter Weight Components
Reaches a Depth 10x Deeper Than Other Surface Enhancement Technologies

We Are Trusted For Automotive Manufacturing

When you are seeking the absolute top performance, laser peening offers many benefits that are worth exploring. Whether your goal is to run the engine harder, faster, or longer we are here to discuss your needs and goals and work towards engineering a solution.

Take a Look at Some Automotive Examples and the Impact of Laser Peening

Tooling Fatigue Life Enhanced with Laser Peening

Laser peening was demonstrated to produce deeper compressive residual stresses, which led to longer service life and more constrained failure regions in these dies

Laser Peening Application Review

Laser peening provides great improvements in fatigue life of metal components, often by over 10x the baseline state.

Laser Peening Application Review: Crankshafts and Camshafts

Camshafts and crankshafts intended for high performance applications, heavy-duty environments, or those that serve as critical load-bearing components can be significantly improved with laser peening.

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Let’s have a preliminary conversation to help you identify the tools, skills, and processes from LSP Technologies that meet your requirements – from preventing metal fatigue to measuring composite bonds. Laser peening will give you the edge in automotive manufacturing and improvement.

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Automotive FAQs on Laser Peening

Laser peening prevents component failures that can compromise equipment, operations, and safety. The expense of laser peening is usually offset many times over by service life extensions, reduced maintenance and inspection costs, and improved part performance.

By incorporating laser peening into new designs, it is possible to reach higher efficiencies, reduce weight, and mitigate stress concentrations, all of which can save significant costs over the life of the part.
The benefits of laser peening depend on processing conditions, material, and part geometry. Thick sections can see a 100% increase in fatigue strength compared to parts that have only been shot peened, while enhancements in thin sections can be much higher. Across a variety of applications and case studies, fatigue life of laser peened parts (measured in number of cycles to failure) has proven to be orders of magnitude greater than untreated or shot peened parts.
Laser peening rarely requires complete surface processing. Parts are treated cost-effectively and efficiently by laser peening specific areas prone to cracking or failure.