Assessment of the Possibility of Using the Continuous Wavelet Transform and Fourier Transform to Analyse Geometric Structures Obtained on the Surface of Turned High-Molecular Polymers

The article presents the possibilities of using wavelet transform and fast Fourier analysis (FFT) to evaluate the signal collected during roughness measurement. During the tests, high-density polyeth-ylene was turned using variable cutting parameters. During cutting, the tool feed was changed to ob-tain roughness structures of different types and with varying degrees of anisotropy. The measured roughness profiles were filtered with Daubechies 6 (db6), Morlet and "Mexican Hat" wavelets and examined using Fourier analysis. The research carried out shows how the machining conditions affect the surface condition and the stability of the cutting process under variable machining conditions for high molecular weight polymers. The effectiveness of the continuous wavelet transform (CWT), sup-plemented with data obtained from Fourier analysis, in identifying places and detecting the nature of disturbances in the generated roughness signal is also shown.