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SURFACE ROUGHNESS MEASURMENT OF A FLAT SURFACE USING
SURFCOM
AIM:
To find the surface roughness of a given flat surface using Surfcom
APPARATUS REQUIRED:
Flat surface specimen
Fixture
Surfcom instrument
SPECIFICATIONS OF THE SURFCOM:
Stylus material: Diamond
Stylus diameter: 2
Stylus deflection (Z-axis): 400
Transverse movement of the probe (X-axis): 0-100mm
Column movement (C-axis): 300mm
PRE LAB QUESTIONS:
1. Define lay and why the measurement is made perpendicular to lay?

2. What do you mean by sampling length?

3. List the difference between cut off length and Sampling length

Work piece setting

Measurement window

1. Title bar
2. Tool bar
3. Level meter
4. Measurement range
5. Counter
6. Profile area
7. Profile area bar
8. Axis operation bar
9. Measurement
10. Return

11. Retract
12. Positioning
13. Measurement information panel
14. Measurement information
15. Data pool
16. CNC panel
17. Data information panel
18. Zero reset
19. Auto stop

4. List any five parameters of surface roughness.

5. What is purpose of the filter in a measuring instrument?

PROCEDURE:
1. Switch on the power, UPS, CPU and the controller in this order and open the
ACCTee software and measurement window screen appears as below in fig 1a.
2. Set the work piece on the fixture and put the stylus on surface(fig-1) by pressing
the joy stick down until level meter(3) is in centre or by clicking Auto stop(12)
icon
3. Double click measurement window (13) or Press F5 and set the standard
measurement conditions as below
Basic conditions:
Standard: ISO-97/09;Measure length: 5L;Measure speed: 0.300mm/s
Move speed: 0.300mm/s;Pre/post travel: cutoff/2*2
Filters:
Ls filter ratio: 300;Cutoff type : Gaussian;Cutoff (Lc)

: 0.8mm

Forms remove: least square line

4. To edit part name details double click part name(17) and enter the details

ANALYSIS WINDOW

TABULATION
Specimen No

Ra

Rt

Rq

5. Click the measurement (9)

6. After measurement select ,window(w)

analysis, to get roughness curve and

roughness parameters
7. Set vertical magnification(18) and horizontal magnification(19) to your
requirement
8. File

Save the document

POST LAB QUESTIONS:

1. Which filter is used in the surfcom?

2. What is the material of stylus tip and its diameter?

3. Whether increasing or decreasing the cut-off length affect the roughness value?

4. How to get roughness and profile curve of a measurement in a single plot?

RESULT:
Thus the surface roughness value for a given flat surface was measured using
surfcom.