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Accelerated Cavitation Damage of Steels in Liquid Metal Environments
Cavitation can be described as a hydrodynamic phenomenon which involves in the formation and collapse of vapor bubbles in a liquid medium. It always accelerates the cavitation damage and brings about multi-scale interactions of cavitation erosion between materials and fluids. For example, corrosion by dissolution/reaction can accelerate cavitation erosion under different liquid temperatures and velocities to alter interface films, and multiphase interface structure can also in turn affect the interfacial flow regime to induce cavitation in various fluids. In this chapter, interfacial characteristics and erosion-corrosion mechanism of directionally solidified (DS) Fe-B alloy with various Fe2B lamellar spacing in flowing zinc were investigated. The results indicate that the formation of adhesive interfacial film not only depends on erosion time and Fe2B lamellar spacing, but also relies on epitaxial ζ accumulation determined by zinc flow effect. Meanwhile, microturbulence of flowing zinc can result in the formation of slip bands and erosion pits on the ζ-FeZn13 surface. The flow-induced localized corrosion appears to accelerate the erosion-corrosion damage of interfacial adhesive film structure and morphology, which reveals underlying erosion mechanism of liquid metal.
Part of the book: Cavitation