Abstract:It is very difficult to interpret the technical term of "erosion-corrosion" which is sometimes encountered in piping systems of power plants, because of complicated mechanisms and several confusing definitions of erosion-corrosion phenomena. "FAC (flow accelerated corrosion)" is recently introduced as wall thinning of materials in power plant systems, as a representative of "erosion-corrosion". FAC is, however, not necessarily well understood and compared with erosion-corrosion. This paper describes firstly th… Show more
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