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Spindle Metrology Precision Grinding Diamond Turning Machine Design
Ultra-precision Spindle Metrology Precision Grinding Diamond Turning of Brittle Materials Precision Machine Design

Ultra-Precision Spindle Metrology

Spindle Metrology Results Demonstrating Nanometer Repeatability

Error Separation Techniques Fixed Sensitive Direction Rotating Sensitive Direction Three-Way Comparison

Spindle Metrology Error Separation Techniques

Grejda Reversal Master Axis Orientation Angle SPAM

Spindle Metrology Research Papers and Publications

Error separation
ANSI B89.3.4 draft standard Effects of gas composition on asynchronous error motion in externally-pressurized spindles, Eric R. Marsh, David A. Arneson, Melvin J. Liebers and Mike W. Olson (2007)
ANSI B89.3.4 draft standard B89 axis of rotation draft standard, (2007)
Ultra-precision spindle calibration Techniques for calibrating spindles with nanometer- error motion, ASPE Journal of Precision Engineering, vol 29, no 1, pp 111-123, Grejda, Marsh and Vallance (2006)
Instrumented grinding On the design and implementation of an instrumented grinding testbed, Sensor Review, vol 25, no 2, pp 155-161, Knapp and Marsh (2005)
Comparison on error separation techniques Nanometer-level comparison of three spindle error motion separation techniques, submitted for publication, Marsh, Couey and Vallance (2005)
Reversal at arbitrary latitude Roundness measurement of spherical artifacts at arbitrary latitudes, accepted for publication, Marsh, Couey and Vallance (2005)
Air spindle dynamics Air bearing spindle dynamics, Robert Grejda and Byron Knapp (2005)
Kinematic spindle Error motion of a kinematic spindle, ASPE Journal of Precision Engineering, vol 28, no 2, pp 204-217, Vallance, Hii, Grejda and Marsh (2004)
Spindle Metrology Tutorial Axis of rotation metrology tutorial, Robert Grejda and Byron Knapp (2001)
Comparison of Donaldson reversal and a multi-position method in spindle error separation, Robert Grejda (2001)
Hard disk drive test results Error motions of HDD spindles, Bob Grejda (2000)
Master axis method Experiences with the master axis method for measuring spindle error motions, ASPE Journal of Precision Engineering, vol 24, no 1, pp 50-57, Marsh and Grejda (2000)