On 3-4 December, 2013, the Office of the Deputy Assistant Secretary of Defense for Maintenance Policy and Programs (ODASD(MPP)) and NCMS, in conjunction with the Joint Technology Exchange Group (JTEG) hosted a virtual Laser Coating Removal Forum to share the experiences, challenges, successes, and benefits of DoD efforts to conduct laser coating removal operations.
Chris Root (FRC-SW), Lloyd Hackle, and Jon Rankin presented a brief on “Enhancing Fatigue Lifetimes and Precision Component Shaping by Laser Peening. The brief included a description of the laser peening process, the benefits that can be achieved, and presented Military and commercial examples where laser peening has been used to increase the life of …