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Gloss Meter

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Glossmeter

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A gloss meter is an instrument that is used to measure specular reflection gloss of a surface. Gloss is determined by projecting a beam of light of intensity at a fixed angle onto a surface and measuring the amount of reflected light at an equal but opposite angle.

Introduction

The gloss meter measures gloss intensity under a fixed set of illumination and viewing conditions [1,2,3]. Figure 1 illustrates the configuration of the collimated light illumination source and the filtered detector across a limited range of observation reception angles. The measurement results of a gloss meter are related to the amount of reflected light from a black glass standard with a defined refractive index. The ratio between the reflected and incident light for the specimen across a range of angles is compared with the ratio for the gloss standard, is recorded as gloss units (GU).

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(a) Schematic diagram of gloss measurement and (b) gloss meter

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References

  1. Hunter, R.S.: Methods of determining gloss. NBS research paper RP 958. J. Res. NBS. 18(77), 281 (1937)

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  2. Jones, L.A.: The gloss characteristics of photographic papers. J. Opt. Soc. Am. 6, 140 (1922)

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  3. CIE 015:2018 Colorimetry, 4th Edition, Commission Internationale de L’eclairage, Vienna, Austria (2018)

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  4. Gloss Meter Industry Standards. Available at: http://www.gloss-meters.com/GlossIntro5.html. Accessed 24 Dec 2019

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  1. Department of Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering, National Taiwan Ocean University, Keelung, Taiwan

    Bor-Jiunn Wen

  2. Center for Measurement Standards, Industrial Technology Research Institute, Hsinchu, Taiwan

    Chao-Hua Wen

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  1. Color Science & Imaging Lab, North Carolina State Univ, Raleigh, NC, USA

    Renzo Shamey

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  1. National Measurement Laboratory R.O.C., Hsinchu, Taiwan, R.O.C.

    Tzeng-Yow Lin

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Wen, BJ., Wen, CH. (2020). Gloss Meter. In: Shamey, R. (eds) Encyclopedia of Color Science and Technology. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_355-2

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    Gloss Meter
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    23 April 2020

    DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-27851-8_355-2

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    Gloss Meter
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    07 October 2015

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