Acquisition of a Simultaneous Five-Axis Computer Numerically Controlled Milling Machine and Supporting Instrumentation (ARI/MME)

该奖项提供以下研究和教学设备：五轴铣床和工具，科学数据和可视化计算机系统，表面测量仪器（光学比较器，工具制造商的显微镜等），与自适应控制器接口的压电陶瓷致动器/传感器，以及带有内部安装的热和力传感器和相关遥测系统的刀具。该设备将在杨百翰大学的五个研究项目和机械与制造工程课程中使用。使用该设备的跨学科努力将继续专注于消除加工误差和随后的复杂雕刻加工零件的手工精加工。加上这一要求的资金，更广泛的研究将研究雕刻零件的复杂加工方面。对美国制造业基础设施的影响可能是，为汽车、航空航天和塑料行业制造模具和精密机械零件的成本大幅下降。这项研究将有助于恢复美国机床，模具和模具行业的竞争力，这些行业在过去十年中不断失去海外竞争的业务。

9413808 Jensen This award provides for the following research and teaching equipment: a five-axis milling machine and tooling, a scientific data and visualization computer system, surface measurement instruments (optical comparator, toolmaker's microscope, etc.), piezoceramic actuators/sensors interfaced to an adaptive controller, and cutting tools with internally mounted heat and force sensors and associated telemetry systems. This equipment will be used in five research programs and in the Mechanical and Manufacturing Engineering curriculums at Brigham Young University. Interdisciplinary efforts using this equipment will continue their focus on the elimination of machining errors and the subsequent hand finishing of complex sculptured machined parts. Coupled with the funding of this request, more extensive research will study aspects of complex machining of sculptured parts. The impact to the nation's manufacturing infrastructure could be a substantial decrease in the cost to manufacture molds and precision machined parts for the automotive, aerospace and plastic industries. This research will help restore competitiveness to the American machine tool, mold, and die industries which have seen a continued loss of business to overseas competition during the past decade.