A Detail Study of Axle Shaft Stress State Change due to Vertical Bending Load in a Commercial Vehicle Axle 2021-26-0328
Heavy commercial vehicle axle shafts are designed for torsion load. Typically, axle shaft fracture mode during the test is torsional in nature through either shaft body diameter or spline end. However, some of the field return axles shows fracture mode on axle shaft flange. This fracture mode does not resemble with a typical lab test torsional fracture. Metallurgical investigation report indicated that the fracture mode is bending in nature.
This paper thus focuses on detail study of change in boundary condition and load transfer path under abusive vertical bending load on axle. A detail finite element analysis is performed to understand stress state change in axle shaft under this condition. A fracture hypothesis is proposed based on observations of finite element analysis results. A detail case study is presented depicting correlation of proposed hypothesis with physical fracture mode. Thus, observation made through this study provides insight to root cause of fracture mode and are helpful for designing heavy commercial vehicle axle shaft.
Citation: Guddeti, A. and Nilangekar, A., "A Detail Study of Axle Shaft Stress State Change due to Vertical Bending Load in a Commercial Vehicle Axle," SAE Technical Paper 2021-26-0328, 2021, https://doi.org/10.4271/2021-26-0328. Download Citation
Author(s):
Ajay Guddeti, Abhijit Nilangekar
Affiliated:
AAM India Manufacturing Corp Pvt Ltd
Pages: 6
Event:
Symposium on International Automotive Technology
ISSN:
0148-7191
e-ISSN:
2688-3627
Related Topics:
Finite element analysis
Commercial vehicles
Axles
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