TY - JOUR AU - Persson, Bo TI - On the Fractal Dimension of Rough Surfaces JO - Tribology letters VL - 54 IS - 1 SN - 1573-2711 CY - Basel PB - Baltzer M1 - FZJ-2015-03805 SP - 99 - 106 PY - 2014 AB - Most natural surfaces and surfaces of engineering interest, e.g., polished or sandblasted surfaces, are self-affine fractal over a wide range of length scales, with the fractal dimension Df=2.15±0.15. We give several examples illustrating this and a simple argument, based on surface fragility, for why the fractal dimension usually is <2.3. A kinetic model of sandblasting is presented, which gives surface topographies and surface roughness power spectra in good agreement with experiments. LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16 UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:000333075300010 DO - DOI:10.1007/s11249-014-0313-4 UR - https://juser.fz-juelich.de/record/201510 ER -