The Splined Shafts of the YPR Vehicle. A General Inquiry on the Material Quality Aspects That Influence Fatigue Life.

Abstract

Various providers of drive shafts, for instance Norca and Napco, offer their products to the Royal Netherlands Army. The steel drive shafts fail early as a result of metal fatigue. Perhaps the Norca product performs slightly better than the Napco. This report offers a summary of shaft features as they were tested or researched: chemical composition, hardness, toughness, microscopic structure. The report concludes that the differences in fatigue life are the result of a mix of these features. The existing shafts cannot be upgraded. There is no simple criterion to distinguish one shaft type from the other one.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Nov 06, 1996
Accession Number
ADA320668

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  • J. M. Oostvogels

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DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Abstracts
  • Chemical Composition
  • Construction
  • Crack Tips
  • Drive Shafts
  • Engineering
  • Fatigue Life
  • Fracture (Mechanics)
  • Hardness
  • Materials
  • Mechanical Engineering
  • Mechanical Properties
  • Mechanics
  • Netherlands
  • Shot Peening
  • Toughness

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  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.
  • Tribology (the study of the boundary interaction between sliding surfaces, lubrication, wear and friction).