crankshaft

English

Crankshaft

Alternative forms

• crank shaft

Etymology

crank +‎ shaft

Noun

crankshaft (plural crankshafts)

1. A rotating shaft that drives (or is driven by) a crank.

Coordinate terms

• conrod
• crankcase
• transaxle

Derived terms

• crankwalk

Translations

rotating shaft that drives a crank

• Afrikaans: krukas
• Arabic: عَمُود الْمِرْفَق m (ʕamūd al-mirfaq)
• Armenian: ծնկաձև լիսեռ (cnkajew liseṙ)
• Bulgarian: колянов вал m (koljanov val)
• Catalan: cigonyal m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 曲軸／曲轴 (zh) (qūzhóu)

• Czech: kliková hřídel f
• Danish: krumtapaksel c
• Dutch: krukas (nl) f
• Esperanto: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: kampiakseli (fi)
• French: vilebrequin (fr)
• Galician: cigüeñal m
• German: Kurbelwelle (de) f
• Greek: στροφαλοφόρος άξονας (el) m (strofalofóros áxonas)
• Hebrew: גַּל אַרְכֻּבָּה m (gal arkuba)
• Hungarian: főtengely (hu), forgattyústengely
• Italian: please add this translation if you can
• Kazakh: иінді білік (iındı bılık)
• Lithuanian: alkūninis velenas m
• Macedonian: коле́несто вра́тило n (kolénesto vrátilo)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: veivaksel (no) m

  Nynorsk: veivaksel m, veivaksling m

• Portuguese: virabrequim (pt) m, cambota (pt) f (of a vehicle)
• Romanian: arbore cotit m, vilbrochen (ro) n
• Russian: коле́нчатый вал (ru) m (kolénčatyj val), коленва́л (ru) m (kolenvál)
• Serbo-Croatian: koljeničasta osovina f
• Spanish: cigüeñal
• Swedish: vevaxel c
• Tagalog: sikaran, tandos-sikaran
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Welsh: crancsiafft f

See also

• camshaft

Further reading

• crankshaft on Wikipedia.Wikipedia

Verb

crankshaft (third-person singular simple present crankshafts, present participle crankshafting, simple past and past participle crankshafted)

1. (of a straight bolt or rod) To deform in such a manner that part of the rod or bolt is displaced sideways, offset from the longitudinal axis of the part, but remains parallel with the part's main longitudinal axis, with the final shape somewhat resembling a crankshaft.
   • 2010 February 9, Air Accidents Investigation Branch, “1.12.3.3 Landing gear examination”, in Report on the accident to Boeing 777-236ER, G-YMMM, at London Heathrow Airport on 17 January 2008‎^[1], archived from the original on 16 June 2022, page 44:

     The attachment of the inboard end of the gear beam was damaged but remained intact; the drag strut fuse pin had 'crankshafted' in a direction indicating that a load had been applied in tension but this had also remained intact.