Roughness microscope

Ohm s law R = EH, where R is resistance, E is voltage, and / is current, roughness - microscopic peak-to-valley distances of film-surface protrusions and depressions, measured in angstroms. 

FIG. 7 Two-dimensional meniscus attached to a horizontal plate with small sawtooth roughness microscopic view of Fig. 4. 

Although the rate of dissolving measurements do thus give a quantity identified as the total surface area, this area must include that of a film whose thickness is on the order of a few micrometers but basically is rather indeterminate. Areas determined by this procedure thus will not include microscopic roughness (or fractal nature). 

Testing. Chemical analyses are done on all manufactured abrasives, as well as physical tests such as sieve analyses, specific gravity, impact strength, and loose poured density (a rough measure of particle shape). Special abrasives such as sintered sol—gel aluminas require more sophisticated tests such as electron microscope measurement of a-alumina crystal si2e, and indentation microhardness. 

He concluded that for aluminium and titanium certain etching or anodization pretreatment processes produce oxide films on the metal surfaces, which because of their porosity and microscopic roughness, mechanically interlock with the polymer forming much stronger bonds than if the surface were smooth . 

The scale of the microscopic surface roughness is important to assure good mechanical interlocking and good durability. Although all roughness serves to increase the effective surface area of the adherend and therefore to increase the number of primary and secondary bonds with the adhesive/primer, surfaces with features on the order of tens of nanometers exhibit superior performance to those with features on the order of microns [9,14], Several factors contribute to this difference in performance. The larger-scale features are fewer in number... 

Cavitation corrosion occurs when a surface is exposed to pressure changes and high-velocity flows. Under pressure conditions, bubbles form on the surface. Implosion of the bubbles causes local pressure changes sufficiently large to flake off microscopic portions of metal from the surface. The resulting surface roughness acts to promote further bubble formation, thus increasing the rate of corrosion. 

The sample is measured with a confocal microscope, by using a chromatic coding of the height, and with a contact-less optical needle focused on the surface. We determine by this way the surface topography and its roughness. 

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