Il-Cho Park

Cavitation Damage Characteristics of Shot Peened ALBC3 Alloy

Copper alloys have widely used for marine plants, ship building equipment, and renewable energy facilities under marine environment due to its excellent castability, durability, and corrosion resistance. In this study, the surface of ALBC3 alloy was modified with shot peening time to improve the strength and cavitation characteristics. For evaluation of cavitation resistance, cavitation experiments for the non-shot peened and shot-peened specimens were performed to investigate the extent of damage and determine the weight loss. As a result, the shot peened ALBC3 alloys improved cavitation resistance. In particular, the shot peening time of 3.5 min was considered to be the optimum shot peening condition since it presented an improvement of 35.7% in cavitation resistance.

Cavitation Erosion Behavior of Electroless Ni–P Coating and Optimization of Process Parameter Using Analysis of Variance with Orthogonal Array

This study investigated the cavitation erosion resistance of electroless Ni-P (EN) coated gray cast iron (GCI) in seawater solution. Furthermore, the optimum coating design parameters were examined to minimize cavitation erosion damage through analysis of variance (ANOVA) based on the L9 orthogonal array. In this study, four coating design factors were used: concentration of source of nickel (A), concentration of reducer agent (B), deposition temperature (C), and pressure of shot peening (D). In accordance with the regulation of the modified ASTM G32, the cavitation erosion experiment was conducted for 1 hour in a seawater solution to find the optimum design parameters which can minimize the cavitation erosion damage. Besides, ANOVA was performed to verify the contribution of each coating design parameter. As a result, the concentration of reducer agent among the EN process parameters was determined as the most significant factor in the cavitation erosion behavior.

Electrochemical Damage Characteristics of Anodized 5083 Aluminum Alloy with Flow Rate in Seawater

In this study, electrochemical damage behaviors with flow rate were investigated for anodized 5083 aluminum alloy in seawater. As the results of anodic polarization experiments and potentiostatic experiments at +1.0 V (vs. SSCE), the non-flow condition presented largely damaged surface resulting from a tendency of local pitting damage. Under various flow rate conditions, however, less surface damages under the application of anodic potential was obtained which is attributed to no accumulation of H + and Clions on the surface. On the other hand, the results of the potentiostatic experiments at –1.0 V (vs. SSCE) with flow rate showed that anodized 5083 aluminum alloys could achieve the effective cathodic protection by low cathodic protection current density less than 2.61 x 10 -7 A/cm2 even under high flow rate of 1 m/s.

Cavitation Damage Characteristics of Al and Zn Arc Thermal Spray Coating Layers for Hull Structural Steel

In this study, Al and Zn arc thermal spray coatings were carried out onto the substrate of SS400 steel to improve corrosion resistance and durability of hull structural steel for ship in marine environment. Therefore cavitation-erosion test was conducted to evaluate the durability of painted and thermal spray coated specimens. And then the damaged surface morphology and weight loss were obtained to compare with each other, respectively. As a result, the painted specimen was the poorest cavitation resistance characteristics because surface damage behavior appeared to be exfoliated in bulk shape during the cavitation experiment. And Zn thermal spray coating layer presented the significant surface damage depth due to relatively low surface hardness and local cavitation damage tendency. On the other hand, as a result of the weight loss analysis, the painting layer presented the poorest cavitation resistance and the Al thermal spray coating layer relatively showed the best results after cavitation experiment.