ME 372 HEAT TRANSFER & METROLOGY LAB

EXPERIMENT 5 STUDY of CMM and MICROSCOPE

Group A5
09010019 Abhishek Sethi 09010020 D Vineet Rao 09010021 Jerin Jolly 09010022 Ronnie Philip

AIM:
(a) To study the working of a Coordinate Measuring Machine and use it to plot the profile of a cylindrical specimen, and plot it using MATLAB. (b) To study the working of a ___Microscope and to estimate inner and outer radius and the centre coordinates by plotting specific points on the circumference.

APPARATUS:
CMM, ___ Microscope, Specimens

OBSERVATIONS:
(a) For top surface of the cylindrical specimen using CMM: X-Coordinate (in mm) 268.1 287.5 329.8 352.1 352.3 328.1 Y-Coordinate (in mm) -233.2 -202.6 -200.1 -224.0 -255.1 -280.3 Z-Coordinate (in mm) -435.8 -435.8 -435.8 -435.8 -435.8 -435.8

(b) For annular specimen using ___ Microscope: Radius = 7.4425mm Centre = (0.9836mm, -1.2838)

CONCLUSIONS:
The CMM is an extremely accurate (Least Count = 10-6m) and versatile instrument to study 3-D profiles. The CMM at laboratory has both automatic and manual modes. For erudition purposes, we used the CMM in the manual mode. The Microscope has a Least Count of 10-6m as well. However, unlike the CMM, there exists significant probability of human error, as the coordinating mapping

is conducted by visual observation, and not by using contact sensing like the CMM.

RESULTS:
(a) For the cylindrical specimen, the radius and centre coordinates were calculated and plotted using MATLAB. Centre = (mm, mm) Radius = mm (b) For the annular specimen, the radius and the centre coordinates were plotted by the software package available with the ___ Microscope. Centre = (0.9836mm, -1.2838mm) Radius = 7.4425mm