ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Power Generating Equipment
Failure of a Coal-Pulverizer Shafts from a Generation Station
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Published:2019
Abstract
Two vertical coal-pulverizer shafts at a coal-fired generation station failed after four to five years in service. One shaft was completely broken, and the other was unbroken but cracked at both ends. shaft material was AISI type 4340 Ni-Cr- Mo alloy steel, with a uniform hardness of approximately HRC 27. Metallographic examination of transverse sections through the surface-damaged areas adjacent to the cracks also showed additional small cracks growing at an angle of approximately 60 deg to the surface. The crack propagation mode appeared to be wholly transgranular. SEM examination revealed finely spaced striations on the crack surfaces, supporting...
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Member Sign InP.C. Chan, J.C. Thornley, Failure of a Coal-Pulverizer Shafts from a Generation Station, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Power Generating Equipment, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.power.c9001620
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