The Surface Texture Answer Book

What is filtering? What is waviness? What’s causing my surface to fail?

Surface texture is more than just a number from a measurement device—it’s a microscopic world with huge implications for many industries and applications. Unfortunately, the topics related to understanding, describing, and controlling surface texture are not widely understood, and questions often arise.

The Surface Texture Answer Book addresses these topics, in a question-and-answer format covering a wide array of surface-related information. Our goal is to help you quickly address your immediate challenges, regardless of your level of experience with surface analysis. Texture is easier to understand when we can visualize it. To that end, this book provides hundreds of informative figures and images that make it not only a problem-solving guide, but also a valuable learning resource that will benefit you far beyond the immediate need.

Carl Musolff and Mark Malburg bring over 70 years of combined experience in surface texture-related problem-solving to the writing of this book. Their experience spans many industries and a wide variety of applications in product development, process/quality control, and metrology.