Pitting Suppression of AISI 316 Stainless Steel Plates in Conditions of Ultrasonic Vibration

Table 1

The pitting potential E_pit and repassivation potential E_rep of the AISI 316 steel in 3.5% NaCl in vibrated and nonvibrated conditions.

Test number	Nonvibrated		Vibrated
	Epit, V/SSCE	Erep, V/SSCE	Epit, V/SSCE	Erep, V/SSCE
1	0.26	0.03	0.41	0.15
2	0.26	0.04	0.45	0.19
3	0.28	0.02	0.35	0.15
4	0.25	0.04	0.47	0.22
5	0.26	0.04	0.4	0.18
Average	0.26 ± 0.02	0.03 ± 0.01	0.42 ± 0.05	0.18 ± 0.04