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ME 300 CH35 Metrology
ME 300 CH35 Metrology
Postprocess Inspection
In-process, on-line, real-time inspection
Dimensional Tolerances
– The smaller tolerancehigh cost, but more
accurate
Measurement Standard
Inch, foot; based on human body
4000 B.C. Egypt; King’s Elbow=0.4633
m, 1.5 ft, 2 handspans, 6 hand-widths,
24 finger-thickness
AD 1101 King Henry I yard (0.9144
m) from his nose to the tip of his thumb
1528 French physician J.
Ferneldistance between Paris and
Amiens
Measurement Standard
1872, Meter (in Greek, metron to
measure)- 1/10 of a millionth of the
distance between the North Pole and
the equator
Platinum (90%)-iridium (10%) X-shaped
bar kept in controlled condition in
Paris39.37 in
In 1960, 1,650,763.73 wave length in
vacuum of the orange light given off by
electrically excited krypton 86.
Measurement Standard
Sensitivity (Resolution); the smallest
difference in dimensions that the
instrument can detect or distinguish
Precision; the degree to which the
instrument gives repeated
measurements of the same standard
(sometimes called accuracy)
Standard measuring temperature 20 0C
Instrument, gage
Line-graduated Instruments
Graduatedmarked to indicate a
certain quantity
Rules; Steel rule (machinist’s rule), bar
or tape, [1 mm or 1/64 in]
Vernier calipers; after P. Vernier 1600s,
caliper gages, [25m or 0.001 in],With
digital readout
Micrometers; sensitivity [2.5m or
0.0001 in],
Line-graduated Instruments
Diffraction gratings; with two flat optical
glasses, interference fringes with 40
lines/mm (1000 lines/in) gratings.
[2.5m or 0.0001 in]
Indirect-reading; dividers, calipers,
telescoping gage for holes and cavities.
Comparative Length-Measuring Instruments