Project: Multidimensional reflectometry for industry

A customer will often choose a product based on the way it looks. Consequently, many industries invest time and money in developing sophisticated visual effects such as metallic paints, sparkle effects and matt finishes. Visual attributes such as colour, gloss, texture, transparency, graininess and sparkle all combine to give the appearance of a particular surface and this project will focus on making better measurements of this overall appearance, as experienced by a potential customer. The project will reduce measurement time and uncertainty and strengthen the traceability of measurements of effects such as goniochromatism, gloss and fluorescence. It will consider how different effects combine to produce a final finished appearance, and will relate measurements to the visual sensation of the end-user. This work will benefit quality control, for example when ensuring that different bodywork panels on a car appear similar or that a finished product matches the description or image a customer was given.

Acronym	IND52 xDReflect (Reference Number: IND52)
Duration	01/09/2013 - 31/08/2016
Project Topic	Metrology
Project Results (after finalisation)	See Website
Website	visit project website
Network	EMRP
Call	EMRP Call 2012 - Industry, SI Broader Scope and Open Excellence

Project partner

Number	Name	Role	Country
1	Conservatoire national des arts et metiers	Coordinator	France
2	Cesky Metrologicky Institut	Partner	Czech Republic
3	Agencia Estatal Consejo Superior de Investigaciones Cientificas	Partner	Spain
4	Istituto Nazionale di Ricerca Metrologica	Partner	Italy
5	Teknologian tutkimuskeskus VTT Oy	Partner	Finland
6	Physikalisch-Technische Bundesanstalt	Partner	Germany
7	SP Sveriges Tekniska Forskningsinstitut AB	Partner	Sweden
8	Callaghan Innovation	Observer	New Zealand
9	Katholieke Hogeschool Sint-Lieven vzw		Belgium
10	Universidad de Alicante		Spain