The ASME B46 Surface Quality Committee will be holding its spring meetings at the Hilton Garden Inn Detroit Airport Hotel on April 23-24, 2009. These meetings are OPEN TO THE PUBLIC and they are free to attend.

The B46 Committee works on writing Standards for new or emerging technology in the field of Surface Texture metrology. This committee is concerned with the geometric irregularities of surfaces. It works to define surface texture and its constituents: roughness, waviness, and lay. It also tries to define parameters for specifying surface texture. The terms and ratings they place into the B46.1 Standard relate to surfaces produced by such means as abrading, casting, coating, cutting, etching, plastic deformation, sintering, wear, erosion, etc. The B46.1-2002 standard, which is currently available, covers surface finish, roughness, texture, microfinish, nanotechnology, bearing area, calibration, certification, fractals, filters, step heights and instrumentation.

The B46 Committee generally meets in April and October for one to two days in various locations around the country. Its meetings consist of a half day to a full day of Project Team meetings and one three hour session of the B46 Standards Committee meeting.

For more information regarding this committee please see the B46 Surface Quality home page:
http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=C30000000

For a meeting schedule of the Spring 2009 meetings please see the following website:
http://cstools.asme.org/csconnect/CommitteePages.cfm?Committee=C30000000&Action=13183