“…With such a criteria, only the grit-blasted specimen would be considered high roughness. However, the microstructure of the splats observed for all four rough specimens (Al1005_R, Al1005_GB, Al5052_E, and Al5052_ET) appears to correspond to the effects described for surfaces which exhibit a high roughness, that is disturbance of the flow of the spreading molten splat by the irregularities of the interface (Ref 14, 19), creating very irregularly shaped splats (Ref [20][21][22], occurrence of substrate melting ( Ref 27,28), especially for the peaks of the surface, etc. Accurate quantification of the effects is difficult because of the relatively limited number of FIB and TEM cross sections that were prepared for each specimen.…”