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What can be treated with WPC?
The strength and durability improvement on the surface after the WPC treatment is unsurpassed by any current methods. Treatable products include steel, aluminum, titanium, copper and brass and soft surfaced bearings. WPC can treat any metallic item in a disassembled state.
What is WPC and how does it work?
What is WPC? WPC is a proven process that has been utilized for many years in the racing and automotive industry. WPC is not a coating, it is a treatment that enhances the surface to reduce friction and strengthen engine parts. WPC achieves this process by firing ultra fine particles towards the surface of a product at very high speeds.
What is the history of WPC treatment?
WPC treatment was introduced in a atechnical racing magazine "Race Engine Technology". Added a testimonial from Eric Hsu, an engine builder and crew ceif of the XS Enginnering BNR32 Skyline GT-R time attack car. We have renewed our website. Two WPC demonstration videos are uploaded. Enjoy!
How long does it take to get a WPC treatment?
Turnaround Time Our Standard turnaround time is 4 business days. Two WPC demonstration videos are uploaded. WPC treatment is beeing tested by a GP racer.
What does WPC TrEATMENT stand for?
Fine Particle PeeningWPC TrEATMENT (Fine Particle Peening) is a shot peening method that improves the mechanical property of metal products. It was jointly developed by Fuji Manufacturing Co., Ltd.
What is WPC process?
WPC is a proven process that has been utilized for many years in the racing and automotive industry. WPC is not a coating, it is a treatment that enhances the surface to reduce friction and strengthen engine parts.
Does WPC TrEATMENT work?
See all 14 photos he WPC process was applied to bearings with this increase in load bearing capacity. Greatly reduced bearing wear was also noted in the test. These properties make WPC an excellent process for treating cylinder bores, pistons, rings, wristpins, gears, and anywhere reduced friction can help.
What are WPC products?
Wood-plastic composites (WPCs) are composite materials made of wood fiber/wood flour and thermoplastic(s) such as polythene (PE), polypropylene (PP), polyvinyl chloride (PVC), or polylactic acid (PLA).
What is WPC and ETA?
WPC / ETA is a Wing of the Ministry of Communication, a National Radio Regulatory Authority involved in Frequency Spectrum Management. WPC Office issues WPC (ETA) License for IT and Electronic products while fulfilling the needs of the wireless technology consumers.
What is shot peening process?
Shot peening works by striking a surface with a shot (round metallic, glass or ceramic particle) with enough force to generate plastic deformation. When a group of shots impact the surface they generate multiple indentations, resulting in the component being encased by a compressive stressed layer on the metal surface.
What is WPC treatment?
WPC has the capacity to treat carburized, nitrided and plated parts without noticeable dimensional changes, and , upon completion of treatment, no further modifications are required of the parts. The strength and durability improvement on the surface after the WPC treatment is unsurpassed by any current methods.
How does WPC work?
WPC achieves this process by firing ultra fine particles towards the surface of a product at very high speeds. The resulting thermal discharge permanently changes the surface, strengthening structure and creating a harder more durable final product.
Why is WPC better than other coatings?
WPC is superior because it is not a coating; it is a permanent surface treatment that reduces friction while strengthening the part . It's unique micro-dimple formation pattern greatly reduces friction and is unmatched by conventional methods of surface treatment.
What is WPC coating?
WPC is not a coating, it is a treatment that enhances the surface to reduce friction and strengthen engine parts. Image of WPC Treatment.
What are treatable products?
Treatable products include steel, aluminum, titanium, copper and brass and soft surfaced bearings. WPC can treat any metallic item in a disassembled state.
What is WPC treatment?
WPC Treatment® mainly improves the strength and function of machine parts, cutting tools, and dies.
What is the purpose of WPC plating?
The normal temperature cementation plating method of the WPC Treatment® alloys and strengthens the material surface by spraying metal powder suitable for each purpose to diffuse and impregnate the surface with the constituent elements . Adhesion strength can be increased by using this method as a base treatment for plating and coating, and dry plating at room temperature is also possible by spraying metal powder with a low melting point and low hardness.
What is surface treatment and thermal treatment?
The surface treatment and thermal treatment method of WPC Treatment® strengthens the processing of thermal treatment and forging effects. The retained austenite in the metal surface layer is transformed into martensite, recrystallized, and refined, resulting in a dense, high-hardness, high-toughness structure. Also, a significant life extension can be expected because of the increase in the internal residual compressive stress of the surface.
Can you use WPC for stainless steel?
For example, we can combine WPC Treatment® with various types of metal thermal treatments for materials, such as SKH materials (high speed steel) and SKD materials (die steel) requiring vacuum quenching, as well as SCM materials (chrome molybdenum steel) requiring thermal refining.
What is the advantage of WPC over shot peening?
Due to the small, light projectiles and high velocities, WPC offers a higher amount of compressive stress and an increase in the degrees of grain refinement to the base metal.
What is WPC in NASCAR?
WPC is a Japanese process closely related to shot peening except it's done on a much smaller scale. WPC is a well-kept motorsport secret used extensively at high levels of the sport, like JGTC. Recently WPC has been gaining popularity in North America in venues like Top Fuel and Pro Stock drag racing, IRL, and NASCAR.
What is shot peening?
Shot peening is blasting a metal part with small steel balls of a controlled size and hardness at a controlled velocity with a controlled amount of coverage. No matter what the guy at your machine shop may tell you, shot peening is not sand blasting, shot cleaning, or bead blasting. See all 14 photos.
Why is it important to use shot peening?
Shot peening is a near-miraculous process. It helps just about any metal last longer and work better. Shot peening can be used to help with breakage problems on many parts.
How much does it cost to shot peen a bunch of parts?
Axles, rods, crank fillets, gears, and springs all benefit from shot peening. Shot peening is cheap-the cost to shot peen a bunch of parts is usually under $100. Many techniques can be used to get the most out of shot peening. One common example is two-stage shot peening.
Does shot peening increase load cycles?
This chart shows that shot peening can greatly increase the amount of load cycles to failure or increase the safe load cycle limit for no failures. It's common for the limited to be increased two to threefold for most metals.
Is WPC cheaper than coating?
Although it is still relatively inexpensive for the multiple benefits it provides with its improvement of fatigue strength, reduction of friction, and improvements in wear resistance, and it's cheaper than coatings.
How does WPC work?
The WPC treatment process works by bombarding the metal surface with a special media at high velocities leaving a hard micro dimpled surface.
What is WPC in racing?
WPC is a well kept motorsports secret that is used extensively at high levels of the sport, such as JGTC, MotoGP and WRC. Recently WPC has been gaining popularity in North America in venues such as Pro Stock drag racing, IRL, ALMS and NASCAR.
What is the advantage of WPC over shot peening?
Due to the small low mass projectiles and high impact velocities, WPC produces a higher amount of compressive stress and an increase in the degree of grain refinement to the base metal over shot-peening.
What is WPC media made of?
Although WPC will not divulge exactly what their media is made from, it resembles baby powder to the casual observer. We conjecture that the material is some sort of ultra hard ceramic whose dimensions and roundness can be precisely controlled like silicon nitride. These spheres are in the low micron range size wise and the impact velocities are near sonic in speed. We also believe that metallic additives such a zinc, tin and molybdenum disulfide are added to the mix to add some anti-galling lubricity or extreme pressure characteristics to the surface. At high velocities, the additives are probably inter-granularly incorporated into the surface of the metal at a molecular level, making their effects permanent and long lasting. We asked the folks at WPC to confirm this but they sort of just smiled and said nothing.
What is a WPC metallograph?
A metallograph is a thinly sliced cross section of a piece of metal that is polished and acid etched so the crystal grain of the metal can be observed. WPC refines the grain, makes it finer and thus reduces the chances of stress cracks forming on the surface. WPC also removes the fine scratching left by machining and converts it to homogeneous dimpling, eliminating these small potential stress risers on the surface.
Is WPC the same as shot peening?
WPC is closely related to shot-peening except it is done in a very different manor. Like shot-peening, WPC involves impacting a part with spherical projectiles to produce surface compressive stress, plastic deformation and grain refinement.
