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title: "Cavitation"
slug: "cavitation"
updated: 2026-10-27T23:12:43Z
published: 2026-10-27T23:12:43Z
canonical: "ims-handbook.cenosco.com/cavitation"
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# Cavitation

## Summary

Cavitation is a form of erosion-corrosion very much like particle erosion but caused by collapsing vapour bubbles that locally induce very high shock loads on the metal surface causing local deformation, micro crater formation and erosion of soft metal phases.

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