Cavitation can help coat magnesium alloys. (IMAGE)

Tokyo Metropolitan University

Cavitation can help coat magnesium alloys.

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Bubbles created by pressurized water can directed at surfaces and trigger cavitation, the continued creation and collapse of bubbles. The addition of an ultrasonic transducer helps reinforce this effect. Both water jet peening and multifunction cavitation help create a thick, corrosion-resistant surface coating on a magnesium alloy surface.

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Tokyo Metropolitan University

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