The aim of this dissertation is to evaluate and assess the influence of the cavitation on the erosion of engineering materials in line with recommendations of the ASTM G32:2010 standard. The work was motivated by the interest of the postgraduate Metrology Programme to participate, within the framework of the cooperation celebrated with the National Metrology Institute of the United Kingdom (National Physical Laboratory, NPL), in a new metrology challenge related to measurement of cavitation. The methodology used was based on experimental work carried out with the cavitation meter recently developed by the Laboratory of Acoustics of the NPL, which was first used to map the levels of cavitation inducing erosion in engineering materials for different amplitude of the transducer (delta) and displacement (lambda) of the transducer horn relative to the specimen subjected to erosion. Among the results is emphasized the mass loss measured for each of the three engineering materials submitted to cavitation erosion: 101.4 mg for the aluminium; 66.00 mg for the Alloy Aluminium-Bronze and 6.80 mg for the stainless steel 304. Three are the main findings of the work (i) with respect to loss of mass (a measure of erosion), the parameter delta was more critical that the parameter lambda; (ii) the lower the hardness of the engineering material eroded, the most susceptible it becomes to cavitation erosion and (iii) the higher the erosion resistance the lower the uniformity of cavitation.