Determination of the fractal scaling parameter from simulated fractal-regular surface profiles based on the weierstrass-mandelbrot function

Proceedings of STLE/ASME International Joint Tribology Conference, IJTC 2006

Volumn 2006, Issue , 2006, Pages

  Wang, Shao ^a,b   Shen, Ji ^a   Chan, Wai Kin ^a  

^a NANYANG TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (Singapore)

^b ASME   (Singapore)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

APPROXIMATION THEORY; FRACTALS; FUNCTIONS; NUMERICAL METHODS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; RANDOM PROCESSES;

ADJACENT HARMONIC COMPONENTS; FRACTAL REGULAR SURFACES; FRACTAL ROUGHNESS PARAMETER; WEIERSTRASS MANDELBROT FUNCTION (WM);

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 33751281776     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1115/ijtc2006-12068     Document Type: Conference Paper

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