Contribution of CIRP to the development of metrology and surface quality evaluation during the last fifty years

Peters, J; Bryan, JB; Estler, WT; Evans, C; Kunzmann, H; Lucca, DA; Sartori, S; Sato, H; Thwaite, EG; Vanherck, Paul

doi:10.1016/S0007-8506(07)62996-5

Contribution of CIRP to the development of metrology and surface quality evaluation during the last fifty years

Author:

Peters, J

Bryan, JB ; Estler, WT ; Evans, C ; Kunzmann, H ; Lucca, DA ; Sartori, S ; Sato, H ; Thwaite, EG ; Vanherck, Paul

Keywords:

metrology, precision engineering, surface quality, refractive-index, instrument, air, Science & Technology, Technology, Engineering, Industrial, Engineering, Manufacturing, Engineering, REFRACTIVE-INDEX, INSTRUMENT, CALIBRATION, ERROR, 0907 Environmental Engineering, 0910 Manufacturing Engineering, 0913 Mechanical Engineering, Industrial Engineering & Automation, 4014 Manufacturing engineering, 4017 Mechanical engineering

Abstract:

An overview of the contribution of the members of the C.I.R.P. community to the progress of Metrology and Surface Roughness Quality Evaluation is given. The following items are included in the part on metrology: brief overview of the existing situation before 1950, contribution to the successive definitions of the unit of length and related reference length standards, traceability, preliminary work to standardization, thermal effects, design and construction of precision machine tools and measuring machines, CMM, large scale metrology.