PROCESS FOR INCREASING THE FATIGUE STRENGTH OF COMPONENT PARTS WITH VARIOUS FORMS

摘要

The fatigue strength of high stress areas of components of diverse shapes is increased by cold forming by clamping the component resiliently between a base and a clamp member urged resiliently toward the base, and impacting the component area with a complementary shaped reciprocative snap die driven by a percussion piston. Two diverging dies may be driven by the same percussion piston to impact two spaced component areas such as opposed fillets of a crankshaft throw.