ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Automobiles and Trucks
Analyzing Failures in Pistons of Racing Car Engines
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Published:2019
Abstract
To determine the effect of severe service on cast 357 aluminum pistons, a metallurgical evaluation was made of four pistons removed from the engine of the Hawk-Offenhauser car which had been driven by Rich Muther in the first Ontario, California 500 race. The pistons were studied by visual inspection, hardness traverses, radiography, dye penetrant inspection, chemical analysis, macrometallography, optical microscopy, and electron microscopy. The crown of one piston had a rough, crumbly deposit, which was detachable with a knife. Two pistons had remains of carbonaceous deposits. The fourth was severely hammered. It was concluded that the high temperatures developed...
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Member Sign InE. George Kendall, Russell G. Sherman, Analyzing Failures in Pistons of Racing Car Engines, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Automobiles and Trucks, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.auto.c9001543
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