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Measurements of the Cavitation Threshold of Liquids Under Dynamic Stressing by Pulses of Tension

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This paper addresses discrepancies between the results of different measurements of the effective tensile strength F(F c ) of liquids, in experiments in which a pulse of tension (or ’negative pressure’) is created by the reflection of a pressure pulse at a suitable boundary. We show that a key feature of the pressure records previously reported in experiments such as the ‘Bullet-Piston’ (B-P) pulse-reflection apparatus [1] may have been misinterpreted. The first complete account of such pressure records is reported here. We also report a new method of estimating F e in a modified B-P apparatus and the results obtained indicate that samples of degassed, deionised water can sustain tensions which are an order-of-magnitude greater than previously reported in B-P work. Results are also reported for work involving samples of Newtonian silicone oils, for which the dependence of F c on shear viscosity, μ, found in this work confirms that of an earlier study although the absolute values of F c are found to be considerably greater than previously reported.

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  1. Centre for Complex Fluids Processing, School of Engineering, University of Wales Swansea, Singleton Park, Swansea, SA2 8PP, (UK)

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  1. Materials Department, KFKI Atomic Energy Research Institute, Budapest, Hungary

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  2. Department of Physics, Brown University, Providence, RI, USA

    H. J. Maris

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Williams, P.R., Williams, R.L. (2002). Measurements of the Cavitation Threshold of Liquids Under Dynamic Stressing by Pulses of Tension. In: Imre, A.R., Maris, H.J., Williams, P.R. (eds) Liquids Under Negative Pressure. NATO Science Series, vol 84. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-010-0498-5_24

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