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The study addresses the effect of multiple jet passes and other parameters namely feedrate, water pressure and standoff distance in waterjet peening of metallic
surfaces. An analysis of surface integrity was used to evaluate the performance of
different parameters in the process. An increase in the number of jet passes and
pressure leads to a higher roughness and more erosion and also a higher hardness.
In contrast, the feedrate shows a reverse effect on those surface characteristics.
There exists a specific value of standoff distance that results in the maximum surface
roughness, erosion as well as hardness. Analysis of the surface microstructure gave
a good insight into the mechanism material removal process involving initial and
evolved damage. Also, the waterjet peening process was optimized based on the
design of experiment approach. The developed empirical models had shown
reasonable correlations between the measured and predicted responses. A proper selection of waterjet peening parameters can be formulated to be used in practical
works.