Analytical Study of the Effect of NaCl Solution on Fatigue Resistance of Rotating Shafts

Abstract

Dynamic shafts subjecting to salty rain water, especially in places with no rain water drainage networks, is undesirable because this media causes corrosion of the parts of shaft that increases as increasing of shaft immersion in a salty media (NaCl) also, increasing of concentration which in turns reducing number of operation runs. Increasing salt concentration from 3% to 6% NaCl results in decreasing of operation runs from 25600 to 17100 runs. Also, increasing salt concentration leads to raise the effect of alternating stress that makes strain hardening factor drop to 0.45 and ratio of dynamic shear stress to static one raise to 2.44 that affects shaft metal performance to resist fatigue. Samples were also, treated by oxy acetylene surface hardening and were cooled by immersion in oil then immersion in 6% NaCl salty solution, the results showed that number of operation runs before failure had increased up to 71022, the effect of alternating stress had decreased down to 6100 N/m2, surface strain hardening factor had increased up to , also ratio of dynamic shear stress to static one had decreased down to 0.839. This is a good indicator of the effectiveness of surface hardening process of shaft parts that subject to salty rain water during maintenance operations.