This thesis describes how a pipeline was obtained to reconstruct an urban environment from terrestrial laser scanning and photogrammetric 3D maps of Norrköping, visualized in first prison and real-time. Together with LIU University and the city planning office of Norrköping the project was carried out as a preliminary study to get an idea of how much work is needed and in what accuracy we can recreate a few buildings. The visualization is intended to demonstrate a new way of exploring the city in virtual reality as well as visualize the geometrical and textural details in a higher quality comparing to the 3D map that Municipality of Norrköping uses today. Before, the map has only been intended to be displayed from a bird’s eye view and has poor resolution from closer ranges. In order to improve the resolution, HDR photos were used to texture the laser scanned model and cover a particular area of the low res 3D map. This thesis will explain which method was used to process a point based environment for texturing and setting up an environment in Unreal using both the 3d map and the laser scanned model.

Implement a high-level model of computationally intensive part of 3D graphics pipe-line. Increasing popularity of handheld devices along with developments in hardware technology, 3D graphics on mobile devices is fast becoming a reality. Graphics processing is essentially complex and computationally demanding. In order to achieve scene realism and perception of motion, identifying and accelerating bottle necks is crucial. This thesis is about Open-GL graphics pipe-line in general. Software which implements computationally intensive part of graphics pipe-line is built. In essence a rasterization unit that gets triangles with 2D screen, texture co-ordinates and color. Triangles go through scan conversion, texturing and a set of other per-fragment operations before getting displayed on screen.

The increased demand in stringent requirements on engineered surfaces in the aerospace and manufacturing industries drove the need for developing advanced surface engineering techniques such as chemical etching, plasma etching, corona discharge and laser surface texturing in order to alter material surface physical and chemical properties. Among these techniques, laser surface texturing has been identified as one of the most efficient and effective surface treatment/ texturing techniques which utilizes laser ablation to meet the demand of practical engineering requirements. This thesis details three practical engineering challenges in the field of paint adhesion, dust adhesion and tribology performance of SPF sheet forming dies in which case the problems and motivation for development came from projects by industrial partner collaborations with BAe Systems, Rolls-Royce and Dyson Ltd. The proposed solutions to these challenges are formulated around laser surface texturing techniques using excimer and femtosecond lasers on three engineering materials which are CFRP, ABS polymer and HR4 nickel alloy. As ablation is the main mechanism used in laser surface texturing techniques in achieving surface property changes, the understanding of laser beam interaction with materials is crucial. The fundamental understanding of laser beam interaction with different materials has been researched since the use of lasers in practical engineering applications by which laser material interaction parameters such as ablation threshold, incubation coefficient and optical penetration depth are of primary interest in addition to the ablation rate. Currently the published literatures are either material specific or laser specific with minimal or zero comparison between different types of lasers and materials as such which limits the understanding of laser beam interaction with materials. In addition, laser beam interaction with polymers has always been done using ultraviolet wavelength lasers. In this thesis, the interaction between two types of lasers and three types of materials which includes metals and polymers are presented through comparison and discussion between different interactions. It has been discovered that the ablation threshold value is lower for ABSinteraction with excimer laser as compared to the interaction with femtosecond laser due to the difference in the ablation mechanism. The optical penetration depth value is higher for ABS interaction with the excimer laser as compared to the interaction with the femtosecond laser due to differences in the photon energy of the laser beam of different wavelength. Two ablation rate curves were identified on ABS interaction with infrared wavelength femtosecond laser beams which has not been reported before. Chemical composition of the laser treated layer changes through chain scission process, creating free radical carbons that reacted with oxygen, nitrogen and water vapour in air creating oxygen and nitrogen rich functional groups which increased with increasing laser fluence and number of pulses. Laser ablation is known for its capability of altering surface morphology and surface chemistry of materials through excitation of electrons causing bond scission or melt where materials are vaporised, ejected or undergo chemical compositional changes. In the case of polymers, addition of oxygen and nitrogen rich functional groups are identified whereas in the case of metals, changes in crystallographic, orientation and oxidation states are identified. Such changes are deemed ideal for applications such as adhesion where it is mainly used for bonding and joining of similar or dissimilar materials. In this research, excimer laser surface treatment showed improvement in CFRP paint adhesion where a better adhesion is achieved than sand-papered surfaces. Paint adhesion of CFRP surfaces is affected by surface contaminants, surface chemical composition and surface roughness where the degree of inuence is in the respective order. In addition, excimer and femtosecond laser surface treated ABS also improved dust adhesion. The main factors that affect the ABS surface dust adhesion performance are surface roughness and surface chemical composition. The increase in surface roughness increases the surface area available for dust to adhere to. In addition, it also increases the drag coefficient of the air flow results in a higher removal force exerted by the air flow onto the dust particles through changes in the localised aerodynamic flow. The increase in polar functional groups increases the adhesion of the dust particles onto the surface due to an induced dipole moment by the charged dust particles. Laser micro-dimpled surfaces have been reported to be effective in reducing friction coefficient and wear rate of surfaces under oil lubricated conformal contact conditions where the dimples act as reservoirs to store lubricant and wear particles. But such surfaces have not been extensively researched under non-conformal contact conditions for different lubricated environments. In addition, there are contradictory results found between published literatures which observe under similar wear environments and conditions but with different dimple geometry. Hence a detailed investigation on dimpled surfaces under non-conformal contact conditions is being carried out. Laser surface texturing of 100 μm size dimples shows a reduction in nickel alloy wear rate under dry and oil lubricated environments. A higher dimple area ratio reduces the wear rate under dry condition with abrasive wear as the main wear mechanism. Under oil lubricated environments, the friction coefficient is dependent on the surface contact pressure, sliding speed and the viscosity of the lubricant and the wear rate is dependent on the film thickness which correlates to the friction coefficient. The wear rate of a dimpled surface is dependent on three factors which are the dimple diameter to contact area diameter ratio, depth of the dimple produced and the density of the dimples. Positive results are obtained in all three engineering applications indicating the feasibility of laser surface texturing techniques in providing suitable material surface properties for these applications.

Les émissions de polluants dans l’atmosphère représentent l’un des objectifs majeurs à l'heure actuelle. Dans le domaine automobile, la réduction des émissions de CO2 repose en partie sur l’amélioration du rendement moteur. Pour ce faire, ces travaux de thèse sur la texturation de surface à micro et nano échelle proposent de diminuer les pertes par frottements dans les moteurs thermiques alternatifs à combustion interne. Le poste moteur retenu dans cette thèse est le segment/piston/chemise car près de 40 % des pertes par frottement y sont générées. On s’intéresse à la texturation par LASER femtoseconde de cavités sur la surface du segment coup de feu. Le comportement tribologique de surfaces texturées est étudié en régime ElastoHydroDynamique (EHD) et Limite. En régime EHD, la capacité de formation d’un film lubrifiant et le contrôle du frottement en surface texturée indique un comportement tribologique dépendant du couplage entre les paramètres expérimentaux - cinématique des surfaces, pression de contact, taux de rétention en huile et temps de résidence des textures dans le contact et les paramètres géométriques - diamètre, profondeur, densité de textures. En régime Limite, l’influence des textures sur le comportement tribologique a permis de confirmer l’hypothèse sur le rôle de piégeage des débris par les cavités et de mettre en évidence des configurations de réseaux réduisant le coefficient de frottement pour des profondeurs faibles. / Nowadays pollutant emissions in the atmosphere are at stake. In the field of automotive industry, the reduction of CO2 emissions lies mostly on improving engine efficiency. This study about textured surface on micro- and nano-scale aims to diminish the friction losses in internal combustion engine.The main element is the piston ring pack because of the creation of 40 percent in friction losses. This analysis consists in LASER texturing with cavities on the surface of the first piston ring. The tribological behavior of textured surfaces is lead in Boundary and ElastoHydroDynamic (EHD) regime. In EHD regime the impact on load capacity of lubricant and frictional behavior in textured surface show linking between experimental parameters as surfaces cinematic, contact pressure, retention volume of oil, the dwelling time of cavities and the geometrical parameters as diameter, cavity depth and cavity density. In Boundary lubrication, the effect of cavities on tribological behavior has led to confirm the hypothesis of trapped debris in the cavities and to make in evidence swallow network of cavities reducing friction coefficient.

Le poly-aryl-éther-éther-cétone (PEEK) est un polymère thermoplastique qualifié de haute performance. Celui-ci suscite l’intérêt de la recherche et de l’industrie pour ses propriétés mécaniques remarquables et sa grande stabilité chimique. Cependant, le PEEK reste relativement sensible à l’usure. Le dépôt d’un revêtement dur à la surface d’un matériau sujet à l’usure est un moyen de protéger ce dernier de l’usure. Les revêtements de type diamond-like carbon (DLC) sont des matériaux connus pour avoir une très bonne résistance à l’usure permettant de protéger efficacement les substrats sur lesquels ils sont déposés. La génération d’une texturation à la surface du matériau d’intérêt est un autre moyen de contrôler son usure. Les lasers femtosecondes se révèlent être des dispositifs très intéressants pour réaliser rapidement des texturations de grande précision. Les travaux présentés dans ce mémoire ont pour objectif de combiner le dépôt d’un revêtement de surface de type DLC et la texturation de surface par laser femtoseconde afin d’améliorer les performances tribologiques du PEEK. La démarche employée a consisté, dans un premier temps, à élaborer un revêtement DLC permettant de protéger efficacement le PEEK de l’usure et ayant une excellente adhérence avec celui-ci puis, à étudier l’influence de la texturation de surface, et plus précisément l’influence des paramètres géométriques de la texturation, sur le comportement tribologique du PEEK revêtu de DLC. / Poly-ether-ether-ketone (PEEK) is a thermoplastic polymer which is often described as a high performance polymer. It is a material subjected to intensive academic and industrial researches for its remarkable bulk mechanical properties and its high chemical stability. However, PEEK is relatively sensitive to wear. The deposition of hard coatings onto materials subjected to wear is a means of protecting them from wear. Diamond-like carbon (DLC) coatings are known to be highly resistant to wear allowing to efficiently protect the substrate onto which they are deposited. Surface texturing is another means of controlling wear. Femtosecond lasers have proven to be very interesting devices in order to quickly produce high-precision textured surfaces. The work presented in this thesis aims at combining the deposition of a DLC coating and laser surface texturing in order to improve the tribological properties of PEEK. The approach was first to develop a highly adherent DLC coating able to efficiently protect the PEEK substrate from wear and then to study the influence of surface texturing, and more precisely the influence of some geometrical parameters, on the tribological behavior of the DLC-coated PEEK. Tt

Dans le cadre du conditionnement des déchets nucléaires, les géopolymères représentent une alternative potentielle aux liants hydrauliques classiques. A ce jour, il est admis que la formation des géopolymères procède selon un mécanisme de dissolution - restructuration - polymérisation conduisant à un matériau solide. Cependant, les liens précis entre la composition de la solution d’activation, le déroulement des réactions de géopolymérisation et la microstructure finale doivent être déterminés du point de vue de la texturation et de l’évolution structurale du matériau. Ainsi plusieurs paramètres de formulation ont été étudiés : la nature de l’activateur alcalin, la concentration en silice et l’ajout d’une source d’aluminium. Il apparait que l’environnement chimique des précurseurs silicatés ou alumino-silicatés est contrôlé par les paramètres de formulation constitutifs de la solution d’activation. Lors de la formation du réseau géopolymérique, ces précurseurs jouent un rôle primordial sur la cinétique de dissolution du métakolin, la taille, l’arrangement et l’agrégation des oligomères alumino-silicatés participant à la formation du réseau poreux. A plus long terme, certaines caractéristiques du réseau poreux qui sont-elles même contrôlées par la taille et l’agencement des oligomères, varient légèrement au cours du temps. Le réarrangement de la structure poreuse associé d’une part à la densification du réseau solide, et d'autre part à la fermeture partielle de la porosité conduit à une légère augmentation de la taille des pores et à une diminution du volume poreux accessible. / In the context of conditioning of nuclear waste, geopolymers represent a potential alternative to conventional hydraulic binders. Currently, it is recognized that the formation of geopolymer proceeds according to a mechanism of dissolution - restructuring - polymerization resulting in a solid material. Despite the availability of many studies to understand these mechanisms, the precise relationship between the chemical nature of the activating solution, the geopolymerization process and the final microstructure should be determined from the point of view of the texturing and the structural evolution of the material. In this work, several parameters were studied: the nature of the alkali activator, the silica concentration and the addition of an aluminum source. It appears that the chemical environment of the silicate or aluminosilicate precursors is controlled by the activating solution composition. During the consolidation of the geopolymer network, these precursors play an important role on the dissolution rate of metakaolin, the size, the rearrange¬ment and the aggregation of aluminosilicate oligomers involved in the porous solid network formation. Subsequently, some characteristics of the porous network which are controlled by the size and the rearrangement of oligomers vary slightly over time. The refinement of the porosity associated to first, a densification of the solid network, and secondly, a partial closure of the porosity at the nanometer scale leads to an increase in the pore size and a decrease of the pore volume.

This PhD thesis presents the outcome of employing both nanosecond and femtosecond pulsed lasers in order to modify the surface structure of a material at the micro and nano scales. Literature review was carried out on micro/nano fabrication technologies involved in the semiconductor industry, which are the basis of many current micro and nano-manufacturing processes. The first experiments concentrated on direct laser scanning of Si to produce surface microstructures. This type of texturing was very effective at reducing surface reflectivity and can be implemented in photovoltaic devices. It was also found that the ablation efficiency can be improved if laser processing is performed in an argon environment where oxidation can be suppressed. Moreover, a significant relationship between laser-texture characteristics (i.e. topography/morphology and periodicity) and total surface reflectance was demonstrated. Short-circuit modelling of the laser texture showed that electrical performance of the cell can be improved by 41.3% in the 360-1100 spectrum, even in the near-infrared for which Si is a weak absorber. From these experimental results, it was also noticed that the laser-generated micro-structures made the surface significantly wettable; but as the laser fluence was reduced, the contact angle of the surface could be changed. This led to the investigation of the wetting properties of nano-bumps produced on Si at fluences below the ablation threshold. Their wetting behaviour was reported for the first time. An effect named as 'invisible marking' in this thesis was demonstrated: vapour condenses into water drops of different size depending on the lattice arrangement of c-Si or a-Si. Such an interaction at the near-ablation threshold was also explored for another type of material: NiP/Al data storage disks. From this research, elliptical bumps with vertical dimension in the sub-nanometre scale were fabricated with extremely high repeatability (± 0.4 nm). In addition, it was found that elliptical bumps can offer better stiction performance than circular shapes, even at ultra-low flying height. This type of laser texture could be utilised as a means for tribological optimization of surfaces that are in close proximity and relative motion. Following the use of low-fluences by nanosecond pulses, this was also applied to scanning over a microsphere lens array. So far, the research on near-field effects produced at the bottom of transparent particles has focused on how to generate parallel nano-patterns by single pulses. However, the present work has demonstrated that a focused beam with a tight-focus can be used to fabricate single lines or shapes rather than repeated patterns. In this way, a femtosecond laser was introduced to meet such a challenge. Moreover, laser-induced periodic surface structures (LIPSS) by fs pulses were also identified along the near-field generated nano-patterns. The evolution of such a periodic, self-assembly structuring was also investigated, and new optical characteristics of structural colour were found.

This thesis focus is on the design and verification of improvements for the RoScan robotic system texture module. RoScan is a robotic scanner for scanning and diagnosing the human body. In this thesis current texturing module of this system is described. Furthermore this thesis describes the theory of light, color and shading in computer graphics. Subsequently, improvments for RoScan texture module are proposed based on the said principles. The last part deals with the implementation of the test script in Matlab and the verification of the functionality of the proposed solution.

This diploma thesis deals with the influence of the surface texturing of non-conformal surfaces at the friction coefficient. In the work were made adjustment of experimental apparatus for measuring friction in the contact between ball and flat disk. Friction coefficient was calculated by the size of the torque on the ball, which was measured by the torque sensor. For recording and processing signal from the sensor was designed software that makes it possible to measure the coefficient of friction for selected conditions (loading of contact, speed of rubbing surfaces and rolling-sliding conditions). Experiments were carried out with smooth and textured ball, glass, and steel disc at different speeds and rolling-sliding conditions. To determine the effect of the influence of the surface texturing at the friction coefficient the size of the coefficient of friction of smooth and textured ball was compared. It was found that the microtexture of the friction coefficient has little effect.

The diploma thesis deals with an engineering design, a realization and a calibration of a apparatus for surface texturing of test samples. Microdents are produced by a diamond tool pressing. Electromagnetic linear actuator is used for pressing. Translation and rotation of the sample are secured by a couple of stepping motors. Thanks to this the apparatus can produce texture with well defined and easily controlled geometry. The diploma thesis contains a summary of surface texturing methods, designs of constructional variations, a electronic device of the apparatus and the calibration are also included.