The development of a triple ball bar system for calibration of CNC machine tools

Proceedings of the Institution of Mechanical Engineers, Part B: Journal of Engineering Manufacture

Volumn 220, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 759-766

  Jywe, Wenyuh ^a   Liu, Chien Hung ^a   Lin, Bor Jeng ^a   Hsu, Tung Hui ^b  

^a NATIONAL FORMOSA UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

^b NATIONAL CHUNG CHENG UNIVERSITY   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Ball bar; Machine tool errors; Measurement; Volume error

Indexed keywords

BALL BAR; GRID ENCODES; MACHINE TOOL ERRORS; VOLUME ERROR;

CALIBRATION; COMPUTER CONTROL; ERROR ANALYSIS; NUMERICAL CONTROL SYSTEMS; TRIANGULATION;

MACHINE TOOLS;

EID: 34247173614     PISSN: 09544054     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1243/09544054JEM254     Document Type: Article

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