Abstract
A system and method for roughness or surface profile inspection for a simple polished cylindrical metal using a microdisplacement
fiber optic bundled sensor system is demonstrated. The system used a red laser, a probe, a photo-detector,
along with an 8 bit ADC and a computerized data acquisition system. The bundled sensor probe consists of both a
transmitting and a receiving fiber. This sensor system adopts an intensity modulation technique based on a target of
reflecting surface or mirror. The transmitted light of the red laser emits from the transmitting probe impinges the target
surface and partially reflected back to the receiving probe. The intensity of the reflected light is measured. The microdisplacement
sensor system has high linearity areas in the range of 550 μm (150-700) μm and in the range of 900μm
(1550-2450) μm. Its sensitivity was 0.15 μm. The sample has a roughness index of 23%. This method is practically suitable
in conjunction with a micro-computed tomography system in order to determine the exact surface profile of the 3D
tomography object being inspected prior to the image reconstruction.
Keywords
Micro-displacement sensor, Roughness profile, Computer tomography.
Citation
G. B. SUPARTA, W. NUGROHO, I. K. SWAKARMA, M. YASIN, Metal roughness profile inspection using a micro-displacement fiber optic bundled sensor, Optoelectronics and Advanced Materials - Rapid Communications, 3, 1, January 2009, pp.65-68 (2009).
Submitted at: Oct. 22, 2008
Accepted at: Jan. 21, 2009