Observations of cavitation erosion pit formation

► We used a novel approach (shape from shading) for high speed cavitation damage evaluation. ► It was found that large pits are actually pit clusters where individual pits overlap. ► We observed that thin foil behaves like a membrane which is also stretched when stress is applied. ► Resistance of th...

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Veröffentlicht in:Ultrasonics sonochemistry 2013-07, Vol.20 (4), p.1113-1120
Hauptverfasser: Dular, Matevž, Delgosha, Olivier Coutier, Petkovšek, Martin
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Zusammenfassung:► We used a novel approach (shape from shading) for high speed cavitation damage evaluation. ► It was found that large pits are actually pit clusters where individual pits overlap. ► We observed that thin foil behaves like a membrane which is also stretched when stress is applied. ► Resistance of the material against ultrasonic and hydrodynamic cavitation cannot be compared. Previous investigations showed that a single cavitation bubble collapse can cause more than one erosion pit (Philipp & Lauterborn [1]). But our preliminary study showed just the opposite – that in some cases a single cavitation pit can result from more than one cavitation event. The present study shows deeper investigation of this phenomenon. An investigation of the erosion effects of ultrasonic cavitation on a thin aluminum foil was made. In the study we observed the formation of individual pits by means of high speed cameras (>1000fps) and quantitatively evaluated the series of images by stereoscopy and the shape from shading method. This enabled the reconstruction of the time evolution of the pit shape. Results show how the foil is deformed several times before a hole is finally punctured. It was determined that larger single pits result from several impacts of shock waves on the same area, which means that they are merely special cases of pit clusters (pit clusters where pits overlap perfectly). Finally it was shown that a thin foil, which is subjected to cavitation, behaves as a membrane. It was concluded that the physics behind erosion depends significantly on the means of generating cavitation (acoustic, hydrodynamic, laser light) and the specimen characteristics (thin foil, massive specimen), which makes comparison of results of materials resistance to cavitation from different experimental set-ups questionable. Further development of the shape from shading method in the scope of cavitation erosion testing will enable better evaluation of cavitation erosion models.
ISSN:1350-4177
1873-2828
DOI:10.1016/j.ultsonch.2013.01.011