TY - JOUR AU - Rodriguez, N. AU - Gontard, L. AU - Ma, C. AU - Xu, Ruibin AU - Persson, Bo TI - On How to Determine Surface Roughness Power Spectra JO - Tribology letters VL - 73 IS - 1 SN - 1023-8883 CY - Dordrecht PB - Springer Science Business Media B.V. M1 - FZJ-2025-00085 SP - 18 PY - 2025 AB - Analytical contact mechanics theories depend on surface roughness through the surface roughness power spectrum. In the present study, we evaluated the usability of various experimental methods for studying surface roughness. Our findings indicated that height data obtained from optical methods often lack accuracy and should not be utilized for calculating surface roughness power spectra. Conversely, engineering stylus instruments and atomic force microscopy (AFM) typically yield reliable results that are consistent across the overlapping roughness length scale region. For surfaces with isotropic roughness, the two-dimensional (2D) power spectrum can be derived from the one-dimensional (1D) power spectrum using several approaches, which we explored in this paper. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001385133500001 DO - DOI:10.1007/s11249-024-01933-6 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/1034979 ER -