Machine Tool Metrology : An Industrial Handbook

✍ Scribed by Graham T. Smith (auth.)

• Publisher: Springer International Publishing
• Year: 2016
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 700
• Edition: 1
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

Maximizing reader insights into the key scientific disciplines of Machine Tool Metrology, this text will prove useful for the industrial-practitioner and those interested in the operation of machine tools. Within this current level of industrial-content, this book incorporates significant usage of the existing published literature and valid information obtained from a wide-spectrum of manufacturers of plant, equipment and instrumentation before putting forward novel ideas and methodologies.

Providing easy to understand bullet points and lucid descriptions of metrological and calibration subjects, this book aids reader understanding of the topics discussed whilst adding a voluminous-amount of footnotes utilised throughout all of the chapters, which adds some additional detail to the subject.

Featuring an extensive amount of photographic-support, this book will serve as a key reference text for all those involved in the field.

✦ Table of Contents

Front Matter....Pages i-xix
Measurement and Machine Tools—An Introduction....Pages 1-200
Laser Instrumentation and Calibration....Pages 201-277
Optical Instrumentation for Machine Calibration....Pages 279-344
Telescoping Ballbars and Other Diagnostic Instrumentation....Pages 345-380
Artefacts for Machine Verification....Pages 381-471
Machine Tool Performance: Spindle Analysis; Corrosion and Condition Monitoring; Thermography....Pages 473-549
Uncertainty of Measurement and Statistical Process Control....Pages 551-608
Back Matter....Pages 609-685

✦ Subjects

Automotive Engineering; Manufacturing, Machines, Tools; Measurement Science and Instrumentation; Transportation; Machinery and Machine Elements