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Study on liquid-solid jet erosion characteristics of 316L stainless steel

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The essence of erosion is the dynamic damage and material loss process of a material caused by particle impact. The failure mechanism of erosion is the result of the interaction of multiphase flow, particle characteristics, material properties, particle impact process, and other factors. This paper employs experimental and numerical simulation methods to investigate the erosion behavior of a solid-liquid two-phase flow of 316L stainless steel jet from the angle of erosion, to explain the erosion behavior from both macroscopic and microscopic perspectives. The results discovered that the kinetic energy of the fluid is converted into pressure potential energy, which changes the kinematic characteristics of the particles and influences how they erode. The particles erode the target material by plowing and impacting at various erosion angles, and the erosion rate exhibits an increasing-decreasing-increasing tendency as the erosion angle increases, the 45° corresponds to the maximum erosion rate. Due to the particles to harden the target surface, the erosion effect is diminished in the time dimension. Comparing to high erosion angles, the reduction rate of the erosion rate in the late experiment stage is small for slow erosion angles. In the last 3 hours of the experiment, the total erosion of 316L stainless steel at 90° erosion angle was only 35 %. This provides a theoretical foundation for failure prevention in transport components containing solid particles.

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Abbreviations

ρ :

Density [kg/m3]

k :

Turbulence kinetic energy [m2/s2]

ε :

Rate of dissipation of turbulence kinetic energy [m2/s3]

S :

Source term

a g :

Gas volume fraction

m :

Mass of particle [kg]

I :

Moment of inertia [mm]

α :

Erosion angel [rad]

H v :

Vickers hardness of the material

D :

Particle diameter [mm]

E :

Erosion rate

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Acknowledgments

This work was supported by the National Natural Science Foundation of China (No. 52165020), the Ningxia Youth Top Talent Project of China (No. 2020011), and the National Key Research and Development Program of China (No. 2018 YFB2004000).

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  1. School of Mechanical Engineering, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021, China

    Guan Wang, Qianfeng Gao, Linyuan Kou, Pei Zhang, Wenhui Wang, Jianfei Deng & Xuejun Zhu

  2. Ningxia Key Laboratory of Computer Aided Engineering Technology for Intelligent Equipment, Ningxia University, Yinchuan, 750021, China

    Guan Wang, Linyuan Kou & Xuejun Zhu

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Guan Wang is currently an Associate Professor in the School of Mechanical Engineering, Ningxia University of China. He received his Ph.D. degree from Hunan University of China in 2013. His main research interests include optimization design, numerical simulation of multiphase flow, metal plastic deformation mechanism and multiscale intrinsic structure model.

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Wang, G., Gao, Q., Kou, L. et al. Study on liquid-solid jet erosion characteristics of 316L stainless steel. J Mech Sci Technol 37, 1871–1882 (2023). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12206-023-0325-9

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