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• Assessment of unusual failure in crankshaft of heavy-duty truck engine

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  • K. Aliakbari
  • R. Masoudi Nejad
  • S. Kian Pourhosseini Toroq
  • W. Macek
  • R. Branco

  - ENGINEERING FAILURE ANALYSIS - Year 2022

  The unusual premature failure of a heavy-duty truck engine crankshaft has been the subject of a rigorous study, and this manuscript describes it in detail. The failure was happened to begin with the growth of the crack from the surface defects, in the form of the clusters of non-metallic inclusions, in the lubrication hole zone of the first main journal, which was the stress concentration zone. A series of experiments including...

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