well thanks for your reply , but my work here is just to study , i dont own anything , i just want approaches and help on how to do the right relative calculations .
due to the spline geometry ?
its a home engineered replacement .
the reducer do have a support , and i believe its the original designed one . so its taking the correct weight.
they cant stop the machine mid cycle , so maximum time of operation with a failed shaft is less than 3 hours .
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im looking more in the anlysis steps , more than directly assuming the causes , cause i need to make a full analysis , but here is the photograph anyway
I’m working on an engineering project analyzing the cause of repeated shaft failure in a translation gear reducer that drives a support wheel of a 400-ton bucket wheel excavator.
System Details
Shaft material: 42CrMo4
Motor power: 5.5 kW , n=1000 t/min
Reducer output power: 4 kW
Gear ratio...