Cavitation corrosion vibratory

Cavitation corrosion of cylinder liners is not caused by high velocity water flow, nor by impingement of coolant streams. Rather, it appears that vibratory effects are primarily responsible. Under the tremendous stresses of fuel compression and combustion in the Diesel cycle, these 3/4 inch thick cylinder liners vibrate or "ring" at frequencies estimated to be in the range of 7,000 to 8,000 cycles per second, and higher. 

Figure 24. Vibratory cavitation corrosion of large diesel engine cylinder which progressed to perforation (7)...

Practice for making and using U-bend stress corrosion test specimens Recommended practice for laboratory immersion corrosion testing of metals Method for vibratory cavitation erosion test Practice for recording data from atmospheric corrosion tests of metallic-coated steel specimens... 

ASTM Standard G-32. Standard method for cavitation erosion using vibratory apparatus. ASTM Volume 03.02, Wear and Erosion Metal Corrosion, ASTM, Philadelphia, PA (1993). 

Standard Test Method for Measuring Fretting Corrosion of Osteosynthesis Plates and Screws Standard Test Method for Cavitation Erosion Using Vibratory Apparatus Standard Terminology Relating to Wear and Erosion... 

Velocity effects include erosion-corrosion, a form of attack caused by high velocity flow cavitation caused at even higher flow by the collapse of bubbles formed at areas of low pressure in a flowing stream and fretting that is caused by vibratory relative motion of two surfaces in close contact under load erosion-corrosion, cavitation, fretting). 

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