A one-dimensional hydrodynamic model for pressures induced near the coating-water interface during laser shock peening

Abstract

In laser shock peening (LSP) under a water-confinement regime, laser-matter interaction near the coating-water interface can induce very high pressures in the order of gigapascal, which can impart compressive residual stresses into metal workpieces to improve fatigue and corrosion properties. However, self-closed models with spatial distribution considerations for the induced pressures near the coating-water interface in LSP are rarely reported in literature. In this paper, a self-closed model is developed by numerically solving the one-dimensional hydrodynamic equations, supplemented with appropriate equations of state of water and the coating material. The model can produce the one-dimensional spatial distributions of the material responses near the water-coating interface in LSP. The model-predicted pressures have been compared with experimental measurements under a variety of conditions typical for LSP, and good agreements have been found for both the transient pressure history and the peak pressure magnitude.