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Surface roughness and fractal dimension Ji?í Militky and Vladimír Bajzík Technical University of Liberec, Dept. of Textile Materials, Liberec, Czech Republic Abstract Surface roughness is one of the main characteristics of fabric responsible for hand feeling. By using of KES the surface height variation (SHV) trace is obtained. For characterization of roughness the mean absolute deviation MAD (denoted by Kawabata. as SMD) is usually used. The main aim of this work is quantitative description of complexity of roughness based on the SHV. The procedure of surface complexity parameters evaluation from SHV traces is described. The core is inspection of power spectral density and variogram (or autocorrelation function) behavior and classification of SHV signal to some groups. For individual groups fractal dimension and surface roughness characteristics are computed by suitable methods. Proposed procedure was checked on the simulated SHV profiles and on the practical examples. 1. INTRODUCTION Kawabata [1] revealed that surface roughness is one of the main characteristics of fabric responsible for hand feeling. By using of KES the surface height variation (SHV) trace can be obtained. The main part of Kawabata’s measuring device is contactor in the form of wire (diameter 0.5 mm). This contactor is moved by constant rate 0,1 cm/sec and SHV is registered on paper sheet. The sample length L=2 cm is used. The SHV corresponds to the surface profile in selected direction (usually in the weft and warp directions are used for SHV creation). Characterization of roughness is based on the mean absolute deviation MAD (the classical descriptive statistical approach). This statistical characteristic is useful for random SHV traces where elements of SHV trace are statistically independent each other. The SHV profile of a lot of fabrics has been identified as irregular and more structured. The descriptive statistical approach based on the assumptions of independence and normality leads to b