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Review on stress corrosion and corrosion fatigue failure of centrifugal compressor impeller

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Corrosion failure, especially stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue, is the main cause of centrifugal compressor impeller failure. And it is concealed and destructive. This paper summarizes the main theories of stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue and its latest developments, and it also points out that existing stress corrosion cracking theories can be reduced to the anodic dissolution (AD), the hydrogen-induced cracking (HIC), and the combined AD and HIC mechanisms. The corrosion behavior and the mechanism of corrosion fatigue in the crack propagation stage are similar to stress corrosion cracking. The effects of stress ratio, loading frequency, and corrosive medium on the corrosion fatigue crack propagation rate are analyzed and summarized. The corrosion behavior and the mechanism of stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue in corrosive environments, which contain sulfide, chlorides, and carbonate, are analyzed. The working environments of the centrifugal compressor impeller show the behavior and the mechanism of stress corrosion cracking and corrosion fatigue in different corrosive environments. The current research methods for centrifugal compressor impeller corrosion failure are analyzed. Physical analysis, numerical simulation, and the fluid-structure interaction method play an increasingly important role in the research on impeller deformation and stress distribution caused by the joint action of aerodynamic load and centrifugal load.

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Correspondence to Songying Chen.

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Supported by National Basic Research Program of China(973 Program, Grant No. 2011CB013401), Visiting Scholar Funded Project of China Scholarship Council(Grant No. 201308370116), Technological Innovation Project of General Administration of Quality Supervision, Inspection and Quarantine of China(Grant No. 2011QK235), and Technological Innovation Project of Weihai Municipal Science and Technology Bureau of China(Grant No. 2012DXGJ22)

SUN Jiao, born in 1980, is currently a PhD candidate at Research Center for Sustainable Manufacturing, Shandong University, China. He received his master degree from Tongji University, China, in 2006. His research interests include sustainable manufacturing and remanufacturing.

CHEN Songying, born in 1966, is currently a professor at Key Laboratory of High efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, China. He received his PhD degree from Zhejiang University, China, in 2005. His research interests include process equipment, control engineering, fluid machinery optimization and fluid-solid coupling method.

QU Yanpeng, born in 1975, is currently a PhD candidate at Key Laboratory of High efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, China. He received his master degree from Petroleum University, China, in 2000. His research interests include process equipment and supercritical fluid technology.

LI Jianfeng, born in 1963, is currently a professor and a PhD candidate supervisor at Key Laboratory of High efficiency and Clean Mechanical Manufacture, Ministry of Education, Shandong University, China. His main research interests include environmentally conscious design and manufacturing, design for disassembly and remanufacturing and dry machining and semi-dry machining.

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Sun, J., Chen, S., Qu, Y. et al. Review on stress corrosion and corrosion fatigue failure of centrifugal compressor impeller. Chin. J. Mech. Eng. 28, 217–225 (2015). https://doi.org/10.3901/CJME.2014.1210.178

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