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Iwan - Abadi
One of the biggest HDPE Plant in Indonesia located at Cilegon, Banten Indonesia
experienced failures on two extruder screw shafts of 1-X-840 (extruder shaft #1) and
2-X-840 (extruder shaft #2).
Extruder Zone
Broken Area at
Kneading zone
2
2
Multiple crack origins
Initiation 1 created a
stable crack
Initiation 2 did not
create a stable crack
Fracture
surface
The failure point of the two extruder shaft #1 and #2 was located
before kneading/mixing zone, where the high pressure of
polyethylene melt was built up and high bending moment on shaft
was exist.
Physical Cause :
The concentrated load was only possible when the fitness between shaft
surface to inner hexagonal surface of the screw is not zero clearance.
Non zero clearance will cause inhomogeneity contact between both surfaces;
the torsion moment has not been transmitted homogeneously to all
hexagonal surfaces but only been transmitted through the hexagonal shaft
corner.
Human Cause :
The root cause of 1-X-840 and 2-X-840 extruder shaft failure was due to
fatigue failure initiated by domination of concentrated load on hexagonal shaft
surface during overload period.
Design Machine Capacity 17.4 ton/h
Historical, Machine in could be running at 21 ton/h
Start and stop operation mode of this machine might contributed to increase
fatigue cycle.
Latent Cause
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