Gloss Enhancement Behaviour of Tiles with Different Initial Surface Conditions

Experimental evaluation of on-line discrete tile rotations in the polishing process of ceramic tiles

“…Fig. 2 provides a better understanding of these two terms, including a typical gloss-gaining curve found in literature [7]. An abrasive contact is considered to occur every time an abrasive particle scratches a given region of the tile surface.…”

“…However, the simulations previously performed were exclusively focused on theoretical limits, so that no experimental results were presented. Such lack of experiments becomes more pronounced when considering the well-known nonlinearity observed between the polishing time and the evolution of gloss during the polishing process [7][8][9][10], previously exemplified in Fig. 2.…”