often-found fret-pitted shaft and coupling bore tapers repair caused frequent and lengthy shutdowns.
Article Type: | Root Cause Analysis (RCA) |
Category: | Mechanical |
Equipment Type: | High Speed, Hi KW Major Rotating Machines |
Author: | S. Raghava Chari |
Note: This root cause analysis (RCA) is from real-time scenarios that happened in industries during the tenure of one or two decades ago. These articles will help you to improve your troubleshooting skills and knowledge.
RCA Queries (Q), Answers and Actions taken (A) follow:
Q: What is fretting Corrosion (FC) and Why?
A: FC is localized surface damages of tightly fitted parts. The author attributes it to the crew used coupling assembling method: Crew lap the shaft taper and coupling bore using CI lappers until the shaft and coupling tapers blue match min 80% contact. They wipe the blue, oil the parts and hand tighten the coupling nut. With a dial gauge touching the coupling face, they spanner tighten the end nut to realize the specified coupling travel aka coupling draw in compressor parlance to realize 0.5 o/00 (per thousand) interference fit.
How do you prevent the following while tightening to torque the coupling-nut?
Crews silence on these convinced the author to Root Cause Analyze the problem and finding a solution.
The author concluded one or more of the above led to inadequate grip between the shaft and coupling half bore.
Hence, after considerable thought he developed below given the above deficiencies free procedure:
Fretting corrosion was history after following the scientific procedure
Author: S. Raghava Chari
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