Different construction materials with different roughness used to make circular weirs highly affect surface roughness and, in turn, flow hydraulics passing over these structures.  In the present research, numerous experiments under different hydraulic conditions were performed on a physical model to study the effects of roughness on flow hydraulics over a circular weir. The flow hydraulics incl...

An on-line monitoring and prediction of surface roughness in grinding is introduced with experimental verification. An adaptive neurofuzzy inference system (ANFIS) is used to monitor and identify the surface roughness online. The system uses a piezoelectric accelerometer to generate a signal related to grinding features and surface finish. The power spectral density (PSD) of this signal is used...

Increased surface roughness and wear of resin cements may cause failure of indirect restorations. The aim of this study was to evaluate quantitatively the surface roughness change and the vertical wear of four resin cements subjected to mechanical toothbrushing abrasion. Ten rectangular specimens (15 × 5 × 4 mm) were fabricated according to manufacturer instructions for each group (n = 10): Nex...

This paper investigates the effects of roughness and cavitations in microchannels on the electro-osmotic flow behaviors using the Lattice Poisson–Boltzmann methods which combined one lattice evolution method for solving the non-linear Poisson–Boltzmann equation for electric potential distribution with the other lattice evolution method for solving the Navier–Stokes equations for fluid flow. The...

The effect of atomic-scale roughness on adhesion between carbon-based materials is examined by both simulations and experimental techniques. Nanoscale asperities composed of either diamond-like carbon or ultrananocrystalline diamond are brought into contact and then separated from diamond surfaces using both molecular dynamics simulations and in situ transmission electron microscope (TEM)-based...

1. Effect of Surface Roughness and Topography The possible role of surface roughness in influencing the nanoscale energy dissipation in bone was investigated both experimentally and computationally. The peak-to-valley heights of the topographical features measured from the tapping mode atomic force microscopy (AFM) images shown in Figs. 2a,d of the main manuscript (presumably mineral particles)...

OBJECTIVE To investigate the effect of a prophylaxis paste on surface roughness of different composites, enamel, dentin and porcelain surfaces. METHODS Three different composites (FiltekZ250/Group1, Filtek Supreme XT/Group2, Premise/Group3), enamel/Group4, dentin/Group5 and porcelain/Group6 samples were used in this study. All specimens were prepared flat by SiC discs and polished with a diam...

A parameterization for surface roughness and blending height at regional scales, under neutral atmospheric stability, is studied and tested. The analysis is based on a suite of large-eddy simulations (LES) over surfaces with varying roughness height and multiple variability scales. The LES are based on the scaledependent Lagrangian dynamic subgrid-scale model, and the surface roughnesses at the...

Surface characterization plays a significant role in evaluating surface functional performance. In this paper, we introduce wavelet packet transform for surface roughness characterization and surface texture extraction. Surface topography is acquired by a confocal laser scanning microscope. Smooth border padding and de-noise process are implemented to generate a roughness surface precisely. By ...