Surface Topography Measurement Analysis of Additively Manufactured Modern Materials and Coatings
A special issue of Coatings (ISSN 2079-6412). This special issue belongs to the section "Surface Characterization, Deposition and Modification".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 31 December 2025 | Viewed by 87
Special Issue Editor
Interests: surface topography; roughness; measurement noise; additive manufacturing; machining; modern manufacturing
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Dear Colleagues,
Topography plays a significant role in many studies considering surface quantities. Today, its measurement decreases the time of data collection during the measuring process. This is due to reducing costs when controlling industrial applications’ surface finishing procedure. Therefore, contactless instruments with fast measuring systems are welcomed instead of stylus solutions. Unfortunately, non-contact methods can be fraught with many external disturbances, which can significantly reduce accuracy when describing surface topography. Therefore, reducing the errors in the measurement process places great demands on topography when considering general measurement principles.
Recent advantages in material production include additive manufacturing. This popular producing method requires the user's knowledge of how to measure its quantities. Surface topography measurements of those components can be complex and increase the possibility of errors during measurement. Even highly precise measuring instruments may not allow for the collection of accurate results when some measurement disturbances are not studied. Many of the recent studies contain sophisticated procedures and approaches that cannot be easily implemented by a regular user.
This Special Issue, titled ‘Surface topography measurement analysis of additively manufactured modern materials and coatings’, aims to collect novel high-quality results. It welcomes the submission of studies on the surface topography of many modern materials, including additively manufactured ones. Moreover, widely reviewed results that focus on the various surface properties of differently manufactured elements are also welcome, along with simulation, modeling, and experimental methods.
Research areas may include (but are not limited to) the following:
- Recent developments in surface topography measuring systems.
- Presentation of advanced methods and sophisticated approaches for surface topography evaluation.
- Theoretical and experimental research, knowledge, and new ideas in terms of the measurement accuracy of surface quantities.
- Current advances in measurement uncertainty studies.
- Characterization of different materials due to their surface topographies.
- Measurement and study of the roughness parameters in accordance with functional surface performance requirements.
- Understanding surface nature with an evaluation of surface topography.
- Analysis of surface quantities due to a detailed evaluation of its topography.
We look forward to receiving your contributions.
Dr. Przemysław Podulka
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- surface metrology
- roughness measurement
- surface topography characterization
- functional materials
- measurement noise
- measurement uncertainty
- manufacturing metrology
- machined surfaces
- additive manufacturing
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