Worcester Art Museum has expressed large interest in knowing if they have causing any damage to the paper after applying some type of treatment to it in an attempt to clean the paper. This paper shows measurements on different types of paper samples provided by the Worcester Art Museum. After measurements are completed, area-scale and length-scale fractal analysis are performed by the patchwork method to investigate fundamental scales on adhesion on rough substrates, in order to find differences between two types of paper. - Surface metrology is used to discriminate surface textures that were created under different conditions or that behave differently, and to understand functional correlations involving surface textures or roughness.

• This report represents the work of one or more WPI undergraduate students submitted to the faculty as evidence of completion of a degree requirement. WPI routinely publishes these reports on its website without editorial or peer review.

Creator

• Chopra, Jatin
• Yadav, Arjun

Subject

• Culture
• Innovation
• Community

Publisher

• Worcester Polytechnic Institute

Identifier

• E-project-050108-152955

Keyword

• Museums--Conservation and restoration

Advisor

• Brown, Christopher A.

Year

• 2008

Sponsor

• Worcester Art Museum

Date created

• 2008-05-01

Location

• Worcester

Resource type

• Interactive Qualifying Project

Rights statement

• In Copyright