Abstract— The fifth wheel and kingpin connection system, a critical part of heavy vehicles, provides the link of tractor and trailer. The kingpin is usually manufactured by hot forging. A part manufactured by this process was assembled in a fifth wheel of an off-road truck and presented an early failure. The truck was used in a quarry until the kingpin failure, three months later. One process issue that can occur in hot forged products is a poor grain structure due to overheating, burning and cavitation. The Scanning Electron Microscopy (SEM) analysis of the failed part showed the presence of cavitation. However, the failure analysis results evinced that cavitation was not the main cause of the fracture, but a combination of wear, impact fatigue and overload.
Keywords— cavitation, failure analysis, hot forged steel, kingpin, overload.
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