Engineering Research Equipment Grant: Surface Geometric Measurement Equipment for Fundamental Studies in Tribology

伦斯勒理工学院的摩擦学实验室 建立了一个持续的计划，以表征各种摩擦学 工业中使用的表面，包括高精度部件，如 飞机滚动接触轴承和计算机记录盘。 然而，用于表征表面的轮廓仪系统 从未设计用于如此高精度的工作或平面以外的其他用途。 表面。 这个项目提供了一个光学表，一个手写笔 轮廓仪和光学轮廓仪，以使表面 高精度摩擦学元件的测量， 元素

The tribology laboratory at Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute has established an ongoing program to characterize various tribological surfaces used in industry, including high precision components such as aircraft rolling contact bearings and computer recording discs. However, the profilometer system used for characterizing surfaces was never designed for such high precision work or for other than flat surfaces. This project provides an optical table, a stylus profilometer, and an optical profilometer to enable surface measurements for high precision tribological elements and also curved elements.