Abstract
An integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach is developed to simulate the real process of shot peening, and is validated by comparing the predicted in-depth residual stresses with the experimentally measured results. Two kinds of three-dimensional finite element models associated with the original surface roughness of Rα0 = 26.7μm and 50.1μm are respectively established by using Gaussian distribution in conjunction with the exponential autocorrelation function, and another target model without the original surface roughness is utilized for reference purposes. Taking advantage of the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulations of shot peening processes based on the three kinds of target models, the effects of the original surface roughness, shot impact angle, and shot peening coverage on the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness are investigated in detail. The obtained results show that the larger original surface roughness of TC4 titanium alloy could be reduced by shot peening, and the reduction increases with the increasing shot peening coverage from 100 to 200%. In the target models associated with the original surface roughness, the distributions of shot-peened surface residual stresses tend to be more uniform than that in the target model without the original surface roughness, whereas both the in-depth residual stresses and surface roughness are not very sensitive to the changes of shot impact angle in the range from 60° to 90°.
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1 Introduction
Shot peening is acknowledged as an effective mechanical cold-working technique for surface strengthening of the metallic materials, and is constantly and widely utilized in the aerospace and aircraft industry for improving the fatigue performance of titanium alloy components [1,2,3,4]. During the process of the conventional shot peening, a large number of shots are driven to impact on the ductile metallic surface to be treating by the gas pressure or the rotational centrifugal force, and the shot velocity is usually in the range from 20 to 150 m/s. As a result of the multiple shot impacts, the significant elastic-plastic deformations are produced in the shot-peened surface and subsurface layers. As the recovery of the elastic deformation region is constrained by the irrecoverable plastic deformation region, the beneficial compressive residual stresses in the shot-peened surface and subsurface layers are produced resultantly, which are responsible for the improvement of fatigue resistance of the shot-peened materials [5,6,7,8]. However, on the other hand, the surface roughness caused by shot peening is generally considered to be unfavorable for the surface integrity of the shot-peened metallic components; the larger surface roughness could increase the stress concentration and promote the microcracks initiation and propagation rapidly at the surface geometrical defects, resulting in the dramatic reduction of fatigue life [9, 10]. It is generally regarded as the competitive relation between the compressive residual stresses and surface roughness for the shot-peened metallic materials [11,12,13].
There are a considerable number of factors influencing the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness, such as the shot size, shot mass density, shot impact velocity, shot impact angles and mass flow speed, etc. [14,15,16]. It should be noted that the different selections of shot peening process parameters could obtain an approximately identical shot-peened results. In order to reproduce, compare, and control shot peening processes, two quality parameters involving shot peening coverage and intensity are extensively used in industry [17, 18]. Shot peening coverage is the percentage of the dented surface on the target surface to be peening, as defined by SAE J2277 standard (2013). The shot peening intensity is characterized by the arc heights of Almen samples, and the saturation point is defined as the deflection of the arc height at which doubling the peening time increases its value by 10%.
By using the shot peening coverage and Almen intensity, a large number of experiments have been performed to investigate the strengthening mechanism of shot peenning and optimize the shot peening process parameters so far [19,20,21,22]. The experimentally measured residual stresses, surface hardness, and surface roughness are usually used to evaluate the strengthening effects of shot peening [23,24,25,26]. However, it is too costly and time-consuming to carry out the experimental studies of shot peening for so many metallic materials, in particular the different shot peening conditions are taken into consideration. With the development of computer technology and finite element method, the numerical simulations of shot peening have emerged and attracted a great deal of interest [27,28,29,30]. Compared with the experiment study, the numerical simulations not only have the advantages of economical cost and time saving, but also provide valuable insight into the correlation between the residual stresses (or surface roughness) and the shot peening process parameters [31, 32]. In general, the developed finite element models of shot peening have been validated by the experimental results in terms of the residual stresses, surface hardness, and surface roughness [33,34,35,36].
A significant amount of effort has been done by the researchers all over the world to develop the finite element models of shot peening for the numerical study. As well known, the two-dimensional axis-symmetric model is widely used to simulate the process of single shot impact owing to its simplicity, and the elastic-plastic deformation resulting from the interaction between the single shot and metallic surface can be quantitatively studied [37]. Due to the incapability of simulating the processes of multiple shot impacts for the axis-symmetric model, the three-dimensional finite element models of shot peening have been developed, which can be approximately divided into two categories: the prior positioning shots [38, 39] and random positioning shots [40,41,42]. For the first category with respect to the prior positioning shots, the well-known symmetric cell model [43, 44] has been proved to be able to predict the residual stresses induced by shot peening, but the surface roughness caused by shot peening cannot be studied quantificationally, which is related to the random impacts of multiple shots. On the other hand, the other category of shot peening models associated with the random positioning shots has the capability of reproducing the shot-peened surface topographies, and the surface roughness can be calculated accordingly [45,46,47]. However, the major drawback of the second category of shot peening models is that the shot-shot interaction is not taken into consideration.
In order to simulate the real process of shot peening as more as possible, the discrete element method (DEM) has been employed to compute the movement behaviors of the multiple shots, and the data on the impact velocities and positions of the multiple shots is then transferred to the three-dimensional finite element models of shot peening, the alternative approach coupling discrete element method with finite element method (DEM-FEM) is developed resultantly [48,49,50]. In the DEM-FEM coupling simulation of shot peening process, both the shot-shot interaction and shot-target interaction are taken into account; the residual stresses and surface roughness induced by shot peening can be predicted more correctly, and some complex shot peening phenomena could even be reproduced.
According to the literatures on the numerical simulations of shot peening process, the DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach has been becoming more and more popular in the numerical simulations of shot peening process in recent years. Hong et al. [51] presented the computational modeling of shot peening process by coupling DEM-FEM very earlier, and the interaction between incoming shots and rebounding shots are taken into account. Jebahi et al. [52] developed a new discrete-continuum coupling model and a comprehensive methodology for numerical simulation of shot peening at minimal cost. Tu et al. [53] proposed a sequential coupled discrete element-periodic cell-based finite element model to predict the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness, and the predicted results are comparable to the experimentally measured values. Zhang et al. [54] predicted the shot peening coverage, compressive residual stress, and surface roughness by the DEM-FEM coupling simulation method. Ahmad et al. [55] developed the DEM-FEM coupling model for the numerical simulation of the shot peening process with multiple random shots; the shot peening model was validated by experiments and was used to evaluate the effects of shot velocity, shot size, and impact angle on the resultant residual stresses. Marini et al. [56] explored the potentiality of DEM-FEM to simulate the shot peening on an edge, and the predicted residual stress field is in reasonable agreement with the reconstructed residual stress field based on experimental measurements.
In the majority of the developed finite element models of shot peening, including the DEM-FEM coupled models as stated above, the surface to be peening was generally treated as a plane; in other words, the effect of the original surface roughness was not taken into consideration. According to the experiment and simulation results, under the same shot peening condition, the shot-peened surface roughness would increase and tend to be stable with the increase of shot peening coverage. However, it has seldom been reported on what it would become after shot peening of the metallic materials surface with the larger original surface roughness. Therefore, in order to investigate the effect of the original surface roughness on the shot-peened results, the Gaussian distribution in conjunction with the exponential autocorrelation function was used to modeling the original rough surface to be peening as described in the following section. Additionally, an integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach of shot peening is developed and validated in the Section 2. The effects of the original surface roughness, shot impact angle, and shot peening coverage are investigated and discussed in the Section 3. Section 4 presents some conclusions at the end of this paper. Considering that TC4 titanium alloy is widely used in the aerospace and aircraft industry owing to its high strength, high corrosion resistance, and light weight, TC4 titanium alloy is therefore used as the metallic material to be peening in this work.
2 DEM-FEM coupling simulation and validation
2.1 Modeling of the original rough surface
Taking into account the effect of the original surface roughness on the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness, the original rough surface was numerically modeled by taking advantage of the Gaussian distribution in conjunction with the exponential autocorrelation function.
Firstly, a two-dimensional random sequence of white noise following Gaussian distribution, η(x, y), is generated by using the computer, and is further converted into A(ωx, ωy) through Fourier transform, wherein x and y represent the two-dimensional coordinates and ωx and ωy are the converted variables corresponding to x and y in η(x, y).
Secondly, the exponential autocorrelation function, R(τx, τy), is developed and expressed as
where τx and τy represent the time delay, χ represents the surface RMS (root mean square) roughness, and βx and βy represent the correlation lengths along the x and y directions, respectively.
Thirdly, the power spectral density function (PSDF), Gz(ωx, ωy), is obtained by Fourier transform on R(τx, τy).
Fourthly, according to the following Eq. (2) [57], the transfer function of the filter, H(ωx, ωy), can be obtained, i.e.,
where Cz is a constant.
Fifthly, by multiplying H(ωx,ωy) with A(ωx,ωy), the Fourier transformation of the output sequence, Z(ωx,ωy), with respect to the input sequence, η(x, y), is calculated by
Lastly, the height distribution function of the original rough surface, z(x, y), can be directly obtained with the inverse Fourier transformation of Z(ωx,ωy).
A routine was written in MATLAB to create the original rough surface according to Eqs. (1–3), as shown in Fig. 1; the peak height or wave depth of the rough surface can be effectively adjusted by introducing a coefficient kz to multiply with z(x, y). The node coordinate information outputted from MATLAB was imported into the three-dimensional drawing software Pro/Engineer (Pro/E), and the target models associated with the original surface roughness were resultantly created and shown in Fig. 1.
Two kinds of target models with the given original surface roughness resulting from the rough machining, Ra0 = 26.7μm and 50.1 μm which respectively corresponds to Rq0 = 31.6μm and 6μm, were created to investigate the effect of the original surface roughness on the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness. The symbols of Ra and Rq respectively denote the arithmetic average and the root-mean-square deviation of the three-dimensional surface roughness, which are expressed as
where Zi represents the distance of the nodes from the reference plane and Ns represents the number of nodes within the reference area. The target model without the original surface roughness was utilized for reference purposes and was represented as Ra0 = 0 μm or Rq0 = 0μm. The three kinds of target models associated with the different original surface roughness were imported into ABAQUS/CAE for meshing from Pro/E, as shown in Fig. 2.
2.2 DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach
In order to simulate the real process of shot peening as more as possible, the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach was developed in this work. Different from the conventional FEM-DEM coupling simulation strategy, which performed the numerical simulations of shot peening process by linking DEM software (such as EDEM, PFC3D) with FEM software (such as ABAQUS/Explicit, ANSYS/Ls-Dyna), the present work implemented the DEM code into the generated FEM input file of ABAQUS code; in other words, the only ABAQUS code was used in this work. When compared with the conventional FEM-DEM coupling simulation strategy, it is extremely convenient and efficient for the integrated FEM-DEM coupling simulation of multiple shot impacts on the original rough surface. The simulation scheme used in this work is shown in the following Fig. 3.
As seen in Fig. 3, the discrete element method (DEM) was used to simulate the movement behaviors of shot flow, and both the shot-shot interaction and shot-target interaction are taken into consideration. In the discrete element model of shot flow, the shot was modeled as a particle and meshed by single-node element of PD3D in ABAQUS code. The particle was regarded as a rigid sphere with the same diameter as the real shot diameter, and the material property parameters of the real shot were also used to characterize the material property of the particle, such as the mass density of 7800 kg/m3, elastic modulus of 210 GPa, and Poisson’s ratio of 0.3. The particles were dynamically generated through the nozzle outlet by Particle Generator supplied by ABAQUS code, and were sprayed onto the target surface to be peening. The nozzle with a circular cross section was modeled as a disk-shape plane and was meshed by single finite element of S4R in ABAQUS code. In order to simplify the calculation process and reduce the computation cost, the diameter of the nozzle is 3 mm and the distance between the nozzle and the target surface is 15 mm. The mass flow rate of particles per unit area of nozzle outlet (Ms) is related to flow speed (Q) and volume fraction (a) of particles and is expressed as
where the flow speed of particles was assumed to be a constant of 50 m/s, the volume fraction is 0.8, and ρ is the mass density of particles.
The general contact was adopted to compute the interactions of particle-particle (shot-shot) and particle-target (shot-target). The element-based surfaces of both particles and target were defined at first, and the contact relations of particle surface-particle surface and particle surface-target surface were then specified, respectively. The friction coefficient between particle surface and particle surface was assigned to be 0.3. For the particle-particle (shot-shot) interaction, the Hertz contact model was used, which establishes the relation between the contact force (Fn) and the penetration displacement of any two contacting spherical particles.
where E1 (or E2), v1 (or v2), and R1 (or R2) are the elastic modulus, Poisson’s ratios, and radius of any two shots, respectively. To simulate the real process of shot peening, the rigid contact without penetration between any two particles was taken into consideration in this work.
For the simulation of the contact between the particle (shot) surface and target surface, the penalty function method with the friction coefficient of 0.3 was used. The target to be peening was modeled as a three-dimensional finite element model with the length of 6 mm, width of 6 mm, and height of 4 mm, as shown in Fig. 2. The target model was meshed by the finite elements with the type of C3D8R in ABAQUS code, and the size of the finest element is 20 μm [58, 59]. The bottom surface of the target model was fixed, and the top surface with the given original surface roughness was impacted by a large number of particles (shots). Considering that the target model is a deformable body, and the residual stresses and surface roughness induced by shot peening are the results of the elastic-plastic deformation associated with the high strain rate (~105 s−1 ), the Johnson-Cook (JC) model was employed as the material constitutive model to characterize the dynamic stress-strain responses resulting from the multiple shot impacts.
where A is the initial yield strength of the material at room temperature of Tr; B is the strain hardening coefficient; C represents the strain rate sensitivity; \( {\overline{\varepsilon}}_p \), \( {\dot{\overline{\varepsilon}}}_p \), and \( {\dot{\overline{\varepsilon}}}_0 \) represent the equivalent plastic strain, equivalent plastic strain rate, and reference plastic strain rate, respectively; T represents the temperature; Tm is the melting temperature; n and m are related to the strain hardening and thermal softening effects, respectively. The JC model parameters of TC4 titanium alloy are listed in Table 1 [60].
2.3 Validation of DEM-FEM coupling simulation
The shot peening experiments taken from literatures [61, 62] were adopted to validate the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation of shot peening process. The shot peening experiments [61, 62] were conducted with the shot peening coverage of 100% and Almen intensity of 0.3 mmA. The nozzle was perpendicular to the target surface, which indicates that a large number of shots vertically impacted on the target surface, and the original surface roughness was not taken into consideration. The used shot type was S230 which is corresponding to the average diameter of 0.6 mm. According to the following formula [63], the shot impact velocity was estimated as 50 m/s.
where P (bar) is the supplied air pressure, M (kg/min) is the mass flow rate of the shots (or particles), D (mm) is the averaged shot diameter, and v (m/s) is the shot impact velocity.
The shot peening experiments [61, 62] were simulated by using the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach. In order to take into account the effect of shot diameter, two kinds of the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulations were carried out in this work and were named as Case 1 and Case 2, respectively. Case 1 used the same shot diameter of 0.6 mm, and Case 2 used the uniformly distributed shot diameters in the range from 0.4 to 0.8 mm, wherein the average value is 0.6 mm. According to the Avrami formula, i.e., Eq(12), which is generally used to evaluate the shot peening coverage, 400 shots (or particles) were needed to be generated to simulate the shot peening process with 100% coverage through the trial calculations, and then 200% coverage needed 800 shot impacts.
where CSP represents the shot peening coverage, NSP is the number of shots (or particles), Sn is the area size of the region to be peening which was thought to be the area size of the nozzle considering that the multiple shots were driven to impact on the target surface vertically from the stationary nozzle, and r is the radius of the dimple produced by single shot vertical impact and r = 0.11 mm resulting from the finite element computation.
In order to reduce the edge effects of shot-peened region as more as possible, the central region with the dimension of 1mm × 1mm × 0.3mm was regarded as the reference for analyzing the numerical simulation results. The predicted distributions of the residual stresses induced by shot peening are shown in Fig. 4, wherein the only quarter of the shot-peened target model is presented and the symbol of “S11” denotes the in-plane stress along the x-axis direction, σx. It should be noted that the average values of residual stresses in the x and y direction are assumed to be equal, σx = σy, since the shot peening process is considered to be homogeneous when the shot peening coverage is larger than 100%. As seen from Fig. 4, the compressive residual stresses are produced in the shot-peened surface and subsurface layers, and the maximum compressive residual stresses are located in the subsurface. For keeping the stress equilibrium of the whole shot-peened target model, the tensile residual stresses are resultantly produced below the compressive residual stresses. It is noted that there are some tensile residual stresses in the shot-peened surface due to the non-uniform elastic-plastic deformations under 100% shot peening coverage. By comparing the two simulation results of Case 1 and Case 2, there is little difference between them; it therefore reveals that the shot-peened residual stresses are insignificant sensitive to the changes of shot diameters when the average value remains a constant.
To compare the numerically predicted results of the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation with the experimentally measured results, the standard normal distribution function was employed to process the statistical data of the resultant residual stresses outputting from each element layer along the thickness direction within the reference region, and the calculated mathematic expectation was used to represent the in-depth residual stresses, as shown in Fig. 5. With the different shot diameters, the insignificant difference of the in-depth residual stresses can be observed by comparing Case 1 with Case 2. Additionally, whether Case 1 or Case 2, the predicted in-depth residual stresses are in good agreement with the experimental results. It is therefore demonstrated that the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach only based on ABAQUS code has the capability of simulating the real shot peening process very accurately.
3 Results and discussion
3.1 Effect of the original surface roughness
3.1.1 Residual stresses
Under the shot peening coverage of 100% and impact angle of 90̊, for the three kinds of target models associated with the different original surface roughness (Ra0 = 0 μm), (26.7 μm), and 50.1 μm), the shot peening-induced residual stresses are shown in Fig. 6. The much similar distributions of the resultant residual stresses as Fig. 4 can be observed in Fig. 6, wherein the beneficial compressive residual stresses were introduced into the shot-peened surface and subsurface layers of target models. As seen from Fig. 6, with the same original surface roughness, by comparing Fig. 6a with Fig. 6c (or comparing Fig. 6b with Fig. 6d), it is hardly to distinguish the difference in the distributions of the shot-peened residual stresses in the Case 1 and Case 2, which is consistent with the phenomenon as shown in Fig. 4.
Figure 7 shows the statistical results of the surface residual stresses from Fig. 6, wherein the x-coordinates denote the residual stresses and y-coordinates denote the percentages of the number of the elements associated with the residual stresses within the reference area. The standard normal distribution function was employed to process the statistical data of the surface residual stresses, and the standard deviation was calculated accordingly, as shown in Fig. 7. The standard deviations corresponding to the distributions of the residual stresses in Fig. 6 were 430.2 MPa, 344.9 MPa, 462.3 MPa, and 335.8 MPa, respectively. It is of interest to notice that the uniformity of the surface residual stresses in the case of Ra0 = 50.1 μm is better than that in the case of Ra0 = 26.7 μm for the same shot diameter, whereas the uniformities of the surface residual stresses in the Case 1 and Case 2 are not obviously different for the same original surface roughness. It therefore reveals that the surface residual stresses are more sensitive to the original surface roughness than the changes of shot diameters with the average value remaining a constant.
Applying the standard normal distribution function to process the predicted residual stresses outputting from each element layer in the thickness direction, the mathematic expectations of the statistical data are shown in Fig. 8, which represent the in-depth residual stresses. Different from the case of Ra0 = 0 μm (the target model without the original surface roughness), for the target models associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 26.7 μm or 50.1 μm, the maximum compressive residual stresses are located in the shot-peened surface, and the compressive residual stresses within the surface and subsurface layers are relatively larger in the case of Ra0 = 50.1 μm than that in the case of Ra0 = 26.7 μm, whereas the increasing tensile residual stresses are produced with the increase in the original surface roughness. By comparing Fig. 8a with Fig. 8b, it can be concluded that there is a slight difference in the distributions of the shot-peened residual stresses when the original surface roughness remains a constant (Ra0 = 0 μm or 26.7 μm or 50.1 μm). It therefore indicates that the residual stresses induced by shot peening are insignificantly sensitive to the changes of shot diameters when the average value remains a constant once again.
3.1.2 Surface roughness
The shot-peened surface topographies in the different shot peening conditions are shown in Fig. 9. Under the multiple shot impacts, many indentations and ridges were produced in the shot-peened surface, as seen from Fig. 9, wherein the symbol “U3” denotes the normal displacement which can indicate the non-uniform elastic-plastic deformations indirectly. For the same shot peening condition (Case 1 or Case 2), with the increase of the original surface roughness, the more obvious ridges produced in the local valley regions of the original rough surface can be observed carefully, which could be explained by the reason that the local peak regions were prior to be impinged by multiple shots. On the other hand, when the original surface roughness remains a constant, the more obvious indentations and ridges can be observed in the Case 2; it reveals that the changes of shot diameters would result in the more non-uniform plastic deformations in the shot-peened surface.
According to Eq. (4) and Eq. (5), the values of Ra and Rq with respect to the shot-peened and un-peened surfaces are shown in Fig. 10. For the target model without the original surface roughness, i.e., Ra0 = 0 μm or Rq0 = 0 μm, the shot-peened surface roughness of Ra = 3.5 μm and 4.2 μm (or Ra = 4.3 μm and 5.3 μm) were produced in the Case 1 and Case 2, respectively. It indicates that the variable shot diameters would produce the larger surface roughness in the case of Rao = 0 μm, although the average value of the variable shot diameters is the same as the constant shot diameter. However, as seen in Fig. 10, when compared with the initial surface roughness, for the target models associated with the original surface roughness of Rao = 26.7 μm or Rq0 = 31.6 μm, the slight increase of the surface roughness is produced by shot peening in the Case 1, and the shot-peened surface roughness decreases unexpectedly for the target model associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm (or Rq0 = 61 μm), and the similar phenomenon can be found in the Case 2 for Ra0 = 26.7 μm. It is therefore concluded that shot peening could be conductive to reducing the larger original surface roughness of TC4 titanium alloy, and the variable shot diameters would be more effective in this respect.
3.2 Effect of shot impact angle
3.2.1 Residual stresses
Three kinds of shot impact angles, a = 60°, 75°, and 90°, were set to investigate the effect of shot impact angle on the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness, and the two kinds of target models associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 0 μm and 50.1 μm were used to be peening under the 100% coverage. The residual stress fields induced by shot peening are shown in Fig. 11. Herein, the standard normal distribution function was also used to process the statistical data of the surface residual stresses, and standard deviations corresponding to the Fig. 11 a, b, c, and d were calculated as 349.9 MPa, 339.6 MPa, 308.9 MPa, and 310.3 MPa, respectively. It reveals that the insignificant difference can be observed in the distribution uniformity of the shot-peened surface residual stresses with respect to the shot impact angles of 60° and 75°; however, the relatively more uniform surface compressive residual stresses could be obtained in the target model with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm, when compared with that in the case of Ra0 = 0 μm.
With the mathematic expectation of the standard normal distribution function, the in-depth residual stresses with respect to the shot impact angles of 60°, 75°, and 90° are shown in Fig. 12. From the figures, it is clearly obvious that the larger compressive residual stresses within the shot-peened surface and subsurface layers are produced in the case of a = 90°, when compared with the cases of a = 60° and 75°. The depth of the compressive residual stresses increases with the increase of shot impact angle in the target model without the original surface roughness (i.e., Ra0 = 0 μm). However, for the target model associated with the original surface roughness of a = 50.1 μm, there is insignificant difference in the shot-peened compressive residual stresses with respect to the shot impact angles of 60° and 70°
3.2.2 Surface roughness
The shot-peened surface roughness with respect to the shot impact angles of 60°, 75°, and 90° are shown in Fig. 13. As seen from Fig. 13a, for the target model without the original surface roughness, with the increase of the shot impact angles, the values of Ra and Rq increase, which indicates that the shot-peened surface roughness increases accordingly. However, for the target model associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm, it should be noted that the shot-peened surface roughness is smaller than the original surface roughness, as seen in Fig. 13b and c, which reveals that the shot peening would be conductive to reducing the larger original surface roughness. On the other hand, for the target model associated with the larger original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm, the insignificant difference in the reduction of the shot-peened surface roughness in Fig. 13c reveals that the shot-peened surface roughness is almost insensitive to the shot impact angles in the range from 60° to 90°.
3.3 Effect of shot peening coverage
3.3.1 Residual stresses
In order to investigate the effect of shot peening coverage on the resultant residual stresses and surface roughness, the comparative simulations of shot peening processes with 100% and 200% coverages were carried out. Under the shot peening coverage of 200%, for the two kinds of target models associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 0 μm and 50.1 μm, the simulation results of the shot-peened residual stresses are shown in Fig. 14a and b. The standard deviations of the surface residual stresses were calculated as 448.8 MPa and 345.4 MPa, respectively. It indicates that the larger original surface roughness could make the shot-peened surface residual stresses to be more uniform. With the mathematic expectation of the standard normal distribution function, the in-depth residual stresses corresponding to Fig. 14 a and b are shown in Fig. 14c. It is obvious that the larger compressive residual stresses are produced in the shot-peened surface and subsurface layers under 200% coverage than that in the case of 100% coverage. As seen in Fig. 14c, under the same shot peening coverage of 100% or 200%, when compared with the in-depth residual stresses resulting from the target model without the original surface roughness, the smaller compressive residual stresses while the larger tensile residual stresses were produced in the target model with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm. It therefore reveals that the larger original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm is unfavorable to the introduction of the beneficial compressive residual stresses induced by shot peening.
3.3.2 Surface roughness
For the two kinds of target models associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 0 μm and 50.1 μm, the simulated surface roughness under the 100% and 200% coverages are shown in Fig. 15. It is of interest to notice that the opposite trends of the shot-peened surface roughness can be observed in the cases of Ra0 = 0 μm and 50 μm. With the increasing shot peening coverage from 100 to 200%, the shot-peened surface roughness increases to 4.5 μm from 3.5 μm in the case of Ra0 = 0 μm, whereas the shot-peened surface roughness decreases to 49.6 μm from 49.8 μm in the case of Ra0 = 50.1 μm. It indicates that the increase of shot peening coverage could be conductive to reducing the larger original surface roughness.
4 Conclusions
Based on the analysis platform of ABAQUS code, the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach was developed to simulate the real process of shot peening, and the numerically predicted in-depth residual stresses are in good agreement with the experimentally measured results, which verifies the validity of this approach. In order to investigate the effect of the original rough surface on the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness, two kinds of target models associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 26.7 μm and 50.1 μm were respectively created by taking advantage of the Gaussian distribution incorporated with the exponential autocorrelation function, and the target model without the original surface roughness was utilized for reference purposes. By using the integrated DEM-FEM coupling simulation approach, the effects of the shot impact angle and shot peening coverage on the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness were further analyzed and discussed in detail. The obtained conclusions were drawn as follows.
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The residual stresses induced by shot peening are insignificant sensitive to the changes of shot diameters when the average value remains a constant.
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Under the same shot peening condition, for the target model associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm, the larger compressive residual stresses are produced, and the shot-peened surface roughness is smaller than the original surface roughness, when compared with the target model associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 26.7 μm.
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The larger compressive residual stresses induced by shot peening are corresponding to the shot impact angle of 90° , and the shot-peened residual stresses and surface roughness with respect to the shot impact angles of 60° and 75° are insignificant different in the target model associated with the original surface roughness of Ra0 = 50.1 μm.
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With the shot peening coverage increasing to 200% from 100%, the compressive residual stresses in the shot-peened surface and subsurface layers increases, the shot-peened surface roughness increases in the case of Ra0 = 0 μm while decreases in the case of Ra0 = 50.1 μm when compared with the original surface roughness.
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Li, K., Wang, C., Hu, X. et al. DEM-FEM coupling simulation of residual stresses and surface roughness induced by shot peening of TC4 titanium alloy. Int J Adv Manuf Technol 118, 1469–1483 (2022). https://doi.org/10.1007/s00170-021-07905-7
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