Three-dimensional runout characterisation for rotationally symmetric components.

ABSTRACT: Rotationally symmetric components (such as gears and axels) are ubiquitous to modern devices, and their precision manufacture is necessary to keep costs and manufacture time down, as well as reduce waste and possibly hazardous component failure. The manufacturing errors, which affect the shape in the rotation axis, are grouped together into the common term "runout". Here we present a potential updated standard for characterising the runout of rotationally symmetric machined parts in three-dimensions, and evaluated using virtual instrumentation, enabling an accurate characterisation of the three dimensional (3D) surface deformation of a part from minimal surface information. For any 3D characterisation method to be widely adopted by the science, technology, engineering, and mathematics comm

SUBMITTER: Tompkins CG 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11821993 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature