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  2. Surface roughness - Wikipedia

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    Surface roughness, often shortened to roughness, is a component of surface finish (surface texture). It is quantified by the deviations in the direction of the normal vector of a real surface from its ideal form. If these deviations are large, the surface is rough; if they are small, the surface is smooth. In surface metrology, roughness is ...

  3. Surface finish - Wikipedia

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    Surface finish. Surface finish, also known as surface texture or surface topography, is the nature of a surface as defined by the three characteristics of lay, surface roughness, and waviness. [1] It comprises the small, local deviations of a surface from the perfectly flat ideal (a true plane). Surface texture is one of the important factors ...

  4. Rugosity - Wikipedia

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    Geology: For marine geologists and geomorphologists, rugosity is a useful characteristic in distinguishing different types of seafloors in remote sensing applications (e.g., sonar and laser altimetry, based from ships, planes or satellites). Oceanography: Among oceanographers, rugosity is recognized to influence small-scale hydrodynamics by ...

  5. Surface metrology - Wikipedia

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    Surface metrology. Surface metrology is the measurement of small-scale features on surfaces, and is a branch of metrology. Surface primary form, surface fractality, and surface finish (including surface roughness) are the parameters most commonly associated with the field. It is important to many disciplines and is mostly known for the ...

  6. Lapping - Wikipedia

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    Surface roughness is defined by the minute variations in height of the surface of a given material or workpiece. The individual variances of the peaks and valleys are averaged (Ra value), or quantified by the largest difference from peak-to-valley (Rz). Roughness is usually expressed in microns. A surface that exhibits an Ra of 8 consists of ...

  7. ISO 25178 - Wikipedia

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    Under 25178, industry-specific taxonomies such as roughness vs waviness are replaced by the more general concept of "scale limited surface" and "cut-off" by "nesting index". The new available filters are described in the series of technical specifications included in ISO 16610. These filters include: the Gaussian filter, the spline filter ...

  8. Pore structure - Wikipedia

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    Pore structure is a common term employed to characterize the porosity, pore size, pore size distribution, and pore morphology (such as pore shape, surface roughness, and tortuosity of pore channels) of a porous medium. [1][2] Pores are the openings in the surfaces impermeable porous matrix which gases, liquids, or even foreign microscopic ...

  9. Contact angle - Wikipedia

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    In Wenzel state, adding surface roughness will enhance the wettability caused by the chemistry of the surface. The Wenzel correlation can be written as ⁡ = ⁡ where θ m is the measured contact angle, θ Y is the Young contact angle and r is the roughness ratio. The roughness ratio is defined as the ratio between the actual and projected ...