Whole field surface roughness measurement by laser speckle correlation technique

This paper describes a speckle correlation technique for the determination of surface roughness, ranging from 1.6 to 50 μm. Instead of moving the laser beam, the specimen is rotated to achieve angular speckle correlation (ASC) in the far-field plane. The technique is simple and requires minimum optical alignment. The experimental results show a good agreement with the standard specimen of known roughness. An error analysis on the experiment has been carried out. Together with the theoretical curves, the roughness values can be easily related to the change of incidence angle at a particular visibility of the correlation fringes between two speckle patterns.     

A novel technique of laser measurement for the surface roughness

This paper describes a non-contact system for the surface roughness measurement without damage. It is suitable for various materials.     

Definition of road roughness parameters for tire vibration noise control

Road roughness plays an important role in the generation of tire vibration noise. However, it is unclear which kinds of road roughness parameters should be controlled to reduce the noise. In this paper, we define the essential road roughness parameters that govern tire tread vibration and provide information on tire/road noise abatement. The detailed effects of road roughness parameters on tire tread vibration are estimated using a tire/road contact model. The results reveal that pavement asperity height itself is not an essential parameter, but asperity height unevenness, asperity radius, and asperity spacing are important for the abatement of tire vibration noise.     

Analysis of speckle images to assess surface roughness

Digital speckle images are photographed for different aluminum rough surfaces using a CCD camera. The obtained speckle images are fed to a PC and analyzed making use of the MATLAB program. The computerized binary images are investigated. The signal-to-noise ratio is computed from these numerical images. It is shown that the surface roughness of the examined surfaces is dependent upon the degree of agglomeration of the speckle images.     

Digital speckle interferometry for assessment of surface roughness

In this work, the principle of interferometry is used to assess the surface roughness of the machined surfaces. Interferometry produces an interference fringe pattern when two or more light waves interact with each other. It is one of the important tool for precision optical metrology and testing. Well-known advantages of the phase shifting interferometry include high measurement accuracy, rapid measurement, good result even with low contrast fringes and that the polarity of the wave front can be determined. In fringe projection techniques, a known optical fringe pattern is projected onto the surface of interest. The fringe pattern on the surface is perturbed in accordance with the profile of the test surface, thereby enabling direct derivation of surface profile.In this work, an attempt has been made to assess the surface roughness using a speckle fringe analysis method of five frame phase shift algorithm for machined surface (ground surface). As these fringes are too noisy, advanced filtering technique has been used so as to reduce noise and to get improved wrapped phase map from the phase shifted fringes. A phase unwrapping software has been developed using discrete cosine transform (DCT) to generate the three-dimensional (3-D) profiles. Finally, it is compared with R_a values measured using a mechanical stylus instrument, showing good agreement.     

Computation of surface roughness using optical correlation

The laser speckle photography is used to calculate the average surface roughness from the autocorrelation function of the aluminum diffuse objects. The computed results of surface roughness obtained from the profile shapes of the autocorrelation function of the diffuser show good agreement with the results obtained by the stylus profile meter.      

Description of surface roughness of sol-gel films/coatings by X-ray reflectivity technique

As an excellent optical or photoelectric material, indium tin oxide (ITO) film was prepared by sol-gel dip-coating and subsequent annealing process. X-ray reflectivity measurement based on the first Born approximation theory was performed for the characterization of surface roughness of ITO film. It is found that the roughness can be described as self-affined over finite length scales and the surface roughness increases with the annealing temperature or holding time. The results were compared with complementary data obtained by atomic force microscope tests and it is found that they match very well. The first Born approximation theory provides a valuable tool for the rough surface characterization of sol-gel films/coating through X-ray reflectivity technique.     

Effect of surface lay in the surface roughness evaluation using machine vision

This work explores the influence of orientation of surface lay pattern of the machined components, while quantifying the surface roughness using machine vision approach. The surface images are captured from milled low carbon steel specimens with different roughness values using a vision system with coaxial lighting arrangement at different angular orientations of the work pieces (0°, 30°, 45°, 60°, 90°, 120°, 135°, 150°, and 180°). The captured images are subjected to preprocessing in order to retain the frequency components that attribute to roughness using a Gaussian filter by adapting the filtering procedures specified in ISO 4288. Numerous image based parameters such as gray level average (G_a), gray level co-occurrence matrix based image quantification parameters namely contrast, correlation, energy or uniformity, maximum probability and differential box courting based fractal dimension are computed from the surface images captured at different angular positions of the work piece. The computed vision based parameters are compared and correlated with the roughness average (R_a) obtained using a stylus instrument and the results are analyzed. The results clearly indicated that it is important to consider the orientation of the work piece when the machine vision approach is used to quantify the surface texture parameters.     

Homogeneous model for surface roughness in identical double layer system

In this paper a homogeneous model for surface roughness in the identical double layer system has been presented. It has been shown that the reflectance change in non-absorbing layers is directly proportional to the square of the total thickness of the layers. In an absorbing layer, it has been shown that the thickness of each layer is equal to the surface roughness of the identical double layer system. The extinction coefficients of both layers are directly proportional to the thickness of that layer.     

Continuous-wave ultrasound reflectometry for surface roughness imaging applications

Background

Measurement of surface roughness irregularities that result from various sources such as manufacturing processes, surface damage, and corrosion, is an important indicator of product quality for many nondestructive testing (NDT) industries. Many techniques exist, however because of their qualitative, time-consuming and direct-contact modes, it is of some importance to work out new experimental methods and efficient tools for quantitative estimation of surface roughness.

Objective and method

Here we present continuous-wave ultrasound reflectometry (CWUR) as a novel nondestructive modality for imaging and measuring surface roughness in a non-contact mode. In CWUR, voltage variations due to phase shifts in the reflected ultrasound waves are recorded and processed to form an image of surface roughness.

Results

An acrylic test block with surface irregularities ranging from 4.22 μm to 19.05 μm as measured by a coordinate measuring machine (CMM), is scanned by an ultrasound transducer having a diameter of 45 mm, a focal distance of 70 mm, and a central frequency of 3 MHz. It is shown that CWUR technique gives very good agreement with the results obtained through CMM inasmuch as the maximum average percent error is around 11.5%.

Conclusion

Images obtained here demonstrate that CWUR may be used as a powerful non-contact and quantitative tool for nondestructive inspection and imaging of surface irregularities at the micron-size level with an average error of less than 11.5%.     

Reduction of surface transport noise by ground roughness

Measured insertion losses due to the ground effects associated with low configurations of loosely stacked household bricks on a car park are reported. A particularly successful design has the form of a two brick high square lattice which is found to offer a similar insertion loss to regularly-spaced parallel wall arrays of the same height but twice the total width. Part of the insertion loss due to the roughness configurations is the result of transfer of incident sound energy to surface waves which can be reduced by introducing wall absorption or material absorption in the form, for example, of shallow gravel layer. Predicted finite length effects have been explored using a Pseudo-Spectral Time Domain Method, which models the complete 3D roughness profile. It is concluded from measurements and predictions that the lattice design has less dependence on azimuthal source-receiver angle than parallel wall configurations. These predictions are supported by measurements of level difference spectra as a function of azimuthal angle. A 2D Boundary Element Method gives predictions that agree well with data for parallel wall arrays up to 16 m long and it is used to investigate the potential insertion loss of longer configurations up to 0.3 m high. It has been found possible also to make predictions of the insertion loss due to infinitely long 3D lattices using the 2D BEM with the lattice represented by the surface impedance derived from fitting short range data with a slit-pore impedance model. The insertion losses of recessed configurations are predicted to be approximately 3 dB less than those of embossed configurations of the same size. Outdoor experiments also show that pathways can be made through such roughness configurations without significantly affecting their insertion loss. It is concluded that artificial roughness configurations could achieve substantial noise reduction along surface transport corridors without breaking line of sight between source and receiver, thereby proving useful alternatives to noise barriers.     

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依据钨材料表面溅射的实验现象,建立钨材料表面粗糙模型,模拟了高能H+、He+粒子辐照下的钨材料表面的溅射行为过程,并与基于离子输运的双群模型计算得到的结果作了比较。结果表明,随着钨材料表面粗糙程度的增加,溅射率降低;对一定的粗糙表面,相同能量的不同入射粒子,质量越大粒子溅射率越高,这些结果为分析聚变装置中心等离子体杂质水平和评价偏滤器寿命等提供了一定的理论支撑。     

Effect of surface roughness on the determination of tissue optical properties

The scattering phase functions of the nylon film with different surface roughnesses were measured by the goniophotometric measurement technique, and the corresponding anisotropy factors of the nylon film with different surface roughnesses were determined subsequently. Consequently, the scattering coefficients of nylon with different surface roughnesses were determined. The fluence rates of intralipid with different interface roughnesses for a board beam irradiation were measured and the penetration depths were determined. The experimental results indicate that the surface roughness obviously affects the determination of the optical properties of nylon. This study suggested that the determination of tissue optical properties should take surface roughness into account.     

Effect of surface roughness on the optical constants of bulk polycrystalline gold samples

Four bulk polycrystalline samples of gold were subjected to different polishing treatments using diamond pastes of grain size 10, 6, 3 and 1 μm. The effect of surface roughness on the optical constants n and k is studied by 45° angle-of-incidence ellipsometry at 632.8 nm. Results for n and k are extrapolated to the case of an ideal surface which we believe to be highly representative of gold. Comparison with published results for the optical constants of gold thin films is presented.     

The effect of the high surface roughness in a comparative process

Comparative measurement methods are used to compare the behaviour of two macroscopically identical but microscopically different object surfaces. The roughness of these surfaces can have any value. The aim of this paper is to demonstrate theoretically as well as experimentally, the effect and the limitations of the high surface roughness on the visibility of the difference correlation fringes obtained in comparative processes.     

表面粗糙度对面向等离子体钨材料溅射的影响

依据钨材料表面溅射的实验现象,建立钨材料表面粗糙模型,模拟了高能H⁺、He⁺粒子辐照下的钨材料表面的溅射行为过程,并与基于离子输运的双群模型计算得到的结果作了比较。结果表明,随着钨材料表面粗糙程度的增加,溅射率降低;对一定的粗糙表面,相同能量的不同入射粒子,质量越大粒子溅射率越高,这些结果为分析聚变装置中心等离子体杂质水平和评价偏滤器寿命等提供了一定的理论支撑。     

Influence of surface roughness on water- and oil-repellent surfaces coated with nanoparticles

Various rough surfaces coated with titanium oxide nanoparticles and perfluoroalkyl methacrylic copolymer were conducted to explore the influence of surface roughness on the performance of water- and oil-repellence. Surface characteristics determined from nitrogen physisorption at −196 °C showed that the surface area and pore volume increased significantly with the extent of nanoparticle ratio, indicating an increase of surface roughness. Due to the surface nano-coating, the maximum contact angles of water and ethylene glycol (EG) droplets increased up to 56 and 48%, respectively, e.g. from 105° to 164° for water droplets and from 96° to 144° for EG droplets. The excellent water- and oil-repellence of the prepared surfaces was ascribed to this increase of surface roughness and fluorinated-contained surface. Compared with Wenzel model, the Cassie model yielded a fairly good fit to the simulation of contact angle with surface roughness. However, a derivation of 3°–10° at higher roughness still existed. This phenomenon was very likely due to the surface heterogeneity with different pore size distributions of the fractal surfaces. In this case, it was unfavorable for super repellency from rough surface with larger mesopore fraction because of its capillary condensation, reflecting that micropore provided more air resistance against wettability.     

Effect of surface roughness on nucleation and growth of vanadium pentoxide nanowires

The effect of surface roughness on subsequent growth of vanadium pentoxide (V₂O₅) nanowires is examined. With increasing surface roughness, both the number density and aspect ratio of V₂O₅ nanowires increase. Structures and morphology of obtained nanowires were characterized by field emission scanning electron microscopy (FE-SEM) and X-ray diffraction (XRD). The nanowires are approximately 40-90 nm in diameter and 2 μm in length. X-ray diffraction (XRD) analysis indicates that the obtained nanowires are orthorhombic structure with (0 0 1) out-of-plane orientation. The luminescence property of V₂O₅ nanowires has been investigated by photoluminescence (PL) at 150 K and 300 K. PL results show intense visible emission, which is attributed to different inter-band transitions between the V 3d and O 2p band. This simple fabrication approach might be useful for fabrication of large area V₂O₅ nanowires arrays with high density.     

利用散斑图像测量表面粗糙度的计算机模拟及实验

从菲涅耳-基尔霍夫衍射公式出发推导出了粗糙面近场衍射方程。通过对观察面散斑光强统计特性的分析,提出了采用镜射光强分量法测量表面粗糙度的思想。为验证该方法的有效性,首先用计算机模拟产生具有不同统计特性的随机表面,然后对由随机表面产生的散斑场及其光强分布进行计算。计算结果表明,与传统的散斑对比度法相比,散斑镜射光强分量法测量弱粗糙表面粗糙度具有更大的适用范围和更高的测量精度,克服了散斑对比度法易受表面横向相关长度影响的缺点。通过实验对计算机模拟结果进行了验证。     

The influence of surface roughness on conductor at terahertz frequencies

In this paper, a theoretical study of the influence of surface roughness on conductor is proposed at terahertz frequencies. By using the analytic small perturbation method, the effects of a random rough surface on the absorption by a metallic surface at terahertz frequencies are analyzed. And the effect of rough surface on reflectivity and power spectral density are also demonstrated. The numerical results are very useful for the development of terahertz devices and terahertz material.