Abstract
The shaft is an important part of the sealing system. In standard sealing counterfaces are hardened and grinded. This
process is useful to reduce wear on the shafts used. Hardening is complex and expensive, so most companies try to
avoid this process by using soft (not hardened) shafts. Soft shafts often show imperfections caused by the grinding
process. Those imperfections causes leakage on the sealing system or even a breakdown of the entire sealing system.
The latest research on these imperfect shafts shows different kinds of imperfections. Typical imperfections are called
grinding burn or grinding chatter marks.
The soft shafts are manufactured by a grinding process with different parameters. Afterwards the shafts were analysed
concerning the imperfections. Detected imperfections are analysed qualitatively and quantitatively with different
measurement and analysis methods. Those imperfections and measurement results will be showed. In the next steps
functional tests will be performed. This functional tests include measurements of the pumping rate and the friction
torque. The results will be correlated with the lubrication condition in the sealing contact. In a further step the wear
behavior of the sealing edge, in contact with different imperfections on the countershaft positioned in the sealing
contact, will be ratet. In this paper the research results will be showed and summarized.
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