

A chain wheel shaft is made of normalized steel C45 without heat treatment of the surface. Due to dimensional nonconformity of composing elements of wedge assembly and due to soft shaft surface, at local indenting of the edge of the gear-wheel hub keyway, a small mechanical surface damage occurred on the shaft that resulted in a crack initiation. The outcome of its slow growth, induced by rotation and rather low dynamic tensile-compressive stresses is a final break of the shaft caused by material fatigue.





Dans cet article publié dans Engineering Failure Analysis , il est fait état de l’étude de la défaillance de cordes de piano en fils d’acier tréfilé à froid. Pour lire l’article suivez le lien : 
