ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Automobiles and Trucks
Contact Fatigue Failure of an Axle Shaft Spur Pinion
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Published:2019
Abstract
One end of an axle shaft containing the integral spur pinion was submitted for examination, along with the report of a tooth pitting failure. The spur pinion, integral to the axle shaft, operated in a medium-size, off-highway truck at an open-pit mine, for “a relatively short time.” Only the pinion head had been returned. The shaft portion had been torch-cut away. Chemical analysis along with the microstructure confirmed the specified material was SAE 43BV12 Ni-Cr-Mo alloy steel. The mode of failure was surface contact fatigue through the shear plane subsurface at the lowest point of single-tooth contact. The cause...
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Member Sign InLester E. Alban, Contact Fatigue Failure of an Axle Shaft Spur Pinion, ASM Failure Analysis Case Histories: Automobiles and Trucks, ASM International, 2019, https://doi.org/10.31399/asm.fach.auto.c9001498
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