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Failure Analysis of a 40Cr Automotive Stabilizer Bar Ball Pin Fracture
YU Huanwei
2024, 49(9):
141-145.
DOI: 10.16638/j.cnki.1671-7988.2024.009.027
The automotive stabilizer is an important component that ensures the smoothness,
handling stability, comfort, safety, and accurate driving of the vehicle. Once the ball pin of the
stabilizer bar fails, it will lead to the loss of the overall function of the car stabilizer bar, seriously
threatening the safety of car driving. An analysis is conducted on the fracture cause of the ball pin in
the 40Cr automotive stabilizer bar. To determine the cause of failure, a comprehensive failure
analysis is conducted, including macroscopic inspection, chemical composition analysis, metallographic structure analysis, micro Vickers hardness testing, fracture analysis, and hydrogen content
detection. In combination with resistance welding and galvanizing processes, it is found that the
fracture mode of the ball pin is intergranular brittle fracture. The reason for the fracture is the
presence of local non-fusion in the outer layer of the resistance welding fusion zone and the
ineffective hydrogen removal treatment after galvanizing, which led to hydrogen absorption in the
welding area, resulting in hydrogen embrittlement fracture. By comparing the hydrogen content
before and after heat treatment at 200 ℃ for 2 hours, it is proposed to increase the hydrogen
elimination heat treatment process and control the resistance welding process parameters, aiming to
avoid similar fracture failure and provide reference for the manufacturing of ball pins.
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