Abstract
Aluminum alloy (7075-T6) is widely used in various industries in parts of aircraft, automobiles and other mechanical applications. It is known that the process of the shot peening leads to an increase in the value of residual stresses, which prolong the fatigue life. However, during surface peening of various metals, including aluminum alloy (7075-T6) used in this work, these surfaces become rough where the places to concentrate the stresses, which will fail when exposed to different dynamic stresses. This paper presents an study on the effect of polishing (the roughness surface induced from shot peening process) on endurance limit and residual stresses result by shot peening. In this paper was used three values of surface roughness (1.5, 3, and 5) μm. The obtained results show that the maximum increasing in endurance limit was (53%) at low roughness compared with as received and increasing value roughly to (27%) compared with alloy after shot peening. . The residual stresses gradually increased (-222.735, -229.602, -250.900) Mpa when the roughness surfaces decreased (5, 3, 1.5) μm respectively.
