Hi,
due to a project at my university I have to invent a possibility to assess
resp. measure the quality of the surface of a tin, esp. dents.
The problem is that we don't have any better idea than inspect the surface
and classify the result in categories, e.g. small, middle and big dents.
But this system of measurement isn't very secure and replicable, so
different persons classify the same dents in different categories.
So could anybody imagine a system of measurement for assassing the surface?
Perhaps even with getting steady data in cotrast to discreet data we get in
our current measurement system?
thanks,
Philipp
You might want to look up some old metallography books and look for
grain size & shape assessment techniques. One I recall was
superimposing a transparent grid onto a photomicrograph of a polished &
etched section. With a reticulated eyepiece one could do much the same
on a metallographic microscope. Anyway, the idea was to count the
number of intersections that a grid line made with the underlying grain
boundaries. Statistical routines were derived for reducing the
gridline-grain boundary intersection data to grain size & shape. One
had to count intersections in two or more directions (by rotating the
grid sometimes). If you think hard on this you will be able to see how
it can be made nearly bias-free. Good luck on hunting out the
literature.
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