Failure Analysis of the Short Drive Shaft in a Screw Press Machine

Abstract:

The screw press is a type of machine press used for extracting crude palm oil from the oil palm’s mesocarp, where its short driveshaft, a mechanical component for transmitting torque and rotation, is often found to be susceptible to failure. Since the initial damage to the short driveshafts in the shaft keyway area is associated with the frequent incidence of shaft failure, this research aimed to discover the root cause of this failure and how to prevent it using visual inspection and stress analysis methods as well as those of the fractography, metallography, chemical composition, and hardness tests. Using the descriptive method to analyse the collected data, the visual inspection and the fractography results of the research indicated that the fatigue crack failure of the short drive shaft in the palm oil screw press machine was caused by the fatigue crack initiation that was safe from stress concentration in its keyway areas. This crack initiation was followed by crack propagation as indicated in beach mark forms. Finally, the ductile fracture observed on the shaft surface was found to have resulted from the continuous rotational motion and the loading and unloading effect of the central shaft driving system.

• Periodical: Key Engineering Materials (Volume 892)
• Pages: 74-80
• DOI: https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/KEM.892.74
• Online since: July 2021
• Authors: Irvin Barizi Muhammad, Husaini Husaini*, Nurdin Ali, Akmal Rauzatul, Teuku Edisah Putra
• Keywords: Failure Analysis, SEM Observation, Shaft, Stress Intensity Factor

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