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JOURNAL OF FAILURE ANALYSIS AND PREVENTION
Volume 17, Issue 6, Pages 1119-1125Publisher
SPRINGER
DOI: 10.1007/s11668-017-0352-x
Keywords
Fatigue; Failure; Gearbox input shaft; Torsional strength; Tempered martensite
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- Office of Integrative Activities
- Office Of The Director [1355466] Funding Source: National Science Foundation
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In this paper, a root cause analysis of premature failure of a gearbox input shaft, manufactured of AISI 1045-H, was performed through standard procedures for failure analysis. Shaft failed on cross oil hole through a helical fracture and therefore did not meet bogie 100,000 cycles during the verification with 10 Hz frequency cyclic testing. The fracture in the oil hole implied evidence of fatigue (i.e., beach marks on the fracture surface were clearly visible). Prior to improving the fatigue life and suggesting required remedial actions, mechanism of failure has to be understood, especially the initiating point of cracking. To this end, chemical analysis, microstructural characterization, fractography, hardness measurements, and finite element simulation were used to assess the nature of fracture in detail. The fractography analysis showed that fatigue beach marks originate from transition zone of the case on the cross oil hole. This is possibly due to the fact that torsional strength in this area is lower than torsional fatigue strength which leads to fatigue crack initiation, crack growth, and final fracture. At the end of this paper, proper remedial actions have been proposed.
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