Meccanica Magazine n. 4

ENG
ICSP14, a successful event! Few thoughts from the chairman of
the Congress: Prof Mario Guagliano
“After having been postponed from 2020 to 2022, finally the 14th
International conference on Shot Peening took place, hosted at Politenico
Milano, in the buildings of the Campus Bovisa. Despite my
fear, ICSP14 attracted the peening community that after five years
could meet in person and discuss about the latest developments in
the field.
More than 160 delegates attended the conference, from Europe
(with strong delegations from Germany, France and Italy), North
America (USA and Canada), Asia (Japan, Singapore, Korea and China).
There were also 19 exhibitors presenting their latest products
and developments.
We missed the Chinese delegates, the majority of whom could not
participate due to the COIVD restrictions. However, we arranged an
on-line connection to allow them to present their work remotely.
And this was appreciated by the speakers and by the audience!
The plenary lectures were given by leaders in the field: Martin Levesque
talked about the numerous activities on course at the École
Polytechnique Montréal, with multiscale approaches for modelling
and impressive experimental tests; Domenico Furfari and Yongxiang
Xu discussed what is going on in laser shock peening at Airbus
and at Shanghai Jiao Tong University, respectively. Emmanuelle
Rouhaud illustrated the work done on SMAT at Université Troyes and
Pierangelo Duó, described how shot peening is implemented at Rolls
Royce Germany.
More than 90 scientific presentations were discussed during the parallel
sessions. Among these latter, the great success of the session
dedicated to shot peening for post-processing of additive manufactured
parts can be underlined: the studies on Ti alloys, Inconel,
stainless steels, as well as the methods developed for assessing
the improvement of the fatigue endurance and strength of additive
manufactured parts attracted the interest and the curiosity of the
audience with many questions and answers.
The sessions covered the different aspects related to the peening
treatments and their applications. I personally find impressive the
great advancement done in the field of shot peening as post treatment
for additive manufacturing and the progress in the field of
simulation and definition of digital twins!
Congratulations to Ivan Bogachev (Univ. Cambridge, UK), Jan Kaufman
(CTU Prague, Czech Republic) and to Maxime Paques, who have
been awarded with the Student Best Paper Award. Excellent work!
The delegates also enjoyed the social events: the networking reception
in the garden Campus Leonardo, the Gala Dinner at La Triennale
Milano, and the cultural visit at Museo Novecento.
Finally, I have the pleasure to announce that the next ICSP15 will be
hosted at the University of Purdue (Indiana, USA), chaired by prof.
Bahr. See you there, in 2025!!”
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