Leach / Smith Basics of Precision Engineering

Erscheinungsjahr 2018
ISBN: 978-0-429-88743-7
Verlag: Taylor & Francis
Format: EPUB
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 675 Seiten

Advances in engineering precision have tracked with technological progress for hundreds of years. Over the last few decades, precision engineering has been the specific focus of research on an international scale. The outcome of this effort has been the establishment of a broad range of engineering principles and techniques that form the foundation of precision design.

Today’s precision manufacturing machines and measuring instruments represent highly specialised processes that combine deterministic engineering with metrology. Spanning a broad range of technology applications, precision engineering principles frequently bring together scientific ideas drawn from mechanics, materials, optics, electronics, control, thermo-mechanics, dynamics, and software engineering. This book provides a collection of these principles in a single source. Each topic is presented at a level suitable for both undergraduate students and precision engineers in the field. Also included is a wealth of references and example problems to consolidate ideas, and help guide the interested reader to more advanced literature on specific implementations.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Leach, Richard

Smith, Stuart T.

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Design Produktdesign, Industriedesign
• Technische Wissenschaften Maschinenbau | Werkstoffkunde Maschinenbau

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Preface
Acknowledgements
About the Editors
About the Contributors
1. Introduction to Precision
Richard Leach and Stuart T. Smith
2. Metrology
Jimmie Miller
3. Background Principles
Harish P. Cherukuri
4. Introduction to Dynamics: Implications on the Design of Precision Machines
Patrick Baird and Stuart T. Smith
5. Dimensional Metrology
Massimiliano Ferrucci, Han Haitjema and Richard Leach
6. Kinematic Design
Shah Karim and Ulrich Weber
7. Precision Machine Principles and Elements
Stuart T. Smith
8. System Modelling
Richard M. Seugling
9. Measurement Uncertainty
Han Haitjema
10. Alignment and Assembly Principles
Eric S. Buice
11. Force Loops
Niels Bosmans and Dominiek Reynaerts
12. Materials Selection in Precision Mechanics
Derek G. Chetwynd
13. Environmental Isolation
Waiel Elmadih, Marwène Nefzi and Eric S. Buice
14. Control Systems for Precision Motion
Stephen Ludwick
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Richard Leach is a professor in Metrology at the University of Nottingham and heads the Manufacturing Metrology Team. Prior to this position, he was at the National Physical Laboratory from 1990 to 2014. His primary love is instrument building, from concept to final installation, and his current interests are the dimensional measurement of precision and additive manufactured structures. His research themes include the measurement of surface topography, development of methods for measuring 3D structures, development of methods for controlling large surfaces to high resolution in industrial applications and x-ray computed tomography. He is a leader of several professional societies and a visiting professor at Loughborough University and the Harbin Institute of Technology.
Stuart T. Smith has been working in engineering for four decades starting in 1977 with a factory maintenance apprenticeship with Miles Redfern Limited. He is now a Professor of Mechanical Engineering and leads the Instrument Development Group at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. Throughout the years, his main focus has been the development of instrumentation and sensor technologies primarily aimed towards the challenges of atomic scale discrimination, manipulation and manufacture with applications in the fields of optical, biological and mechanical processes.