ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Construction, Mining, and Agricultural Equipment
Torsional Fatigue Failure of Crane Shaft
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Published:2019
Abstract
In a shaft subjected to reversed torsional stresses, failure resulted from the gradual development of fatigue cracks from opposite sides of the shaft. These broke out from origins located adjacent to the fillets at the start of the square section. The remaining uncracked material which fractured at the time of the mishap was in the form of a narrow strip, situated slightly to one side of the center of the shaft. The material was a mild steel in the normalized or annealed condition, having a carbon content of approximately 0.3%. The cracking was characteristic of that resulting from torsional...
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