THE PROCESS (MECHANISM) OF EROSION OF SOLUBLE BRITTLE MATERIALS CAUSED BY CAVITATION

Authors
STEPHANIS CG HATIRIS JG MOURMOURAS DE
Citation
Cg. Stephanis et al., THE PROCESS (MECHANISM) OF EROSION OF SOLUBLE BRITTLE MATERIALS CAUSED BY CAVITATION, Ultrasonics sonochemistry, 4(3), 1997, pp. 269-271
Citations number
4
Categorie Soggetti
Acoustics,Chemistry
Journal title
Ultrasonics sonochemistry → ACNP
ISSN journal
13504177
Volume
4
Issue
3
Year of publication
1997
Pages
269 - 271
Database
ISI
SICI code
1350-4177(1997)4:3<269:TP(OEO>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
This research determines which of the phenomena that appear during cav itation are responsible for the erosion of some brittle water soluble materials, such as gypsum and alum, when exposed to a high intensity u ltrasound field over the cavitation level. The observation that gypsum suffers no erosion under the effect of an ultrasound field when the m aterial is irradiated in a saturated solution of gypsum in water initi ated the idea of performing this experiment. (C) 1997 Elsevier Science B.V.