A method to measure the damping introduced by linear guides in large milling machines
Date
2022-05Keywords
Machine tool dynamics
Damping
Linear guides
Large milling modeling
Abstract
Simulation of the dynamic behavior of a milling machine requires accurate stiffness, inertia, and damping values. Unlike the properties of stiffness and inertia, damping values are not generally available in the bibliography, which only contains reference values. In the present work, a method is proposed to measure the damping introduced by one linear guide when assembled in large-scale milling machines, unlike current available methods which measure the damping capacities of such guides. Linear guides of same size and type can introduce different damping values at different joints even in the same machine, so that these damping values depend both on the damping capacities of the guide and on the dynamic properties of the joint. This method will allow identifying linear guides that can introduce highest damping values. This identification has been done first by measuring frequency responses at the linear guides of the machine and calculating the modal vectors of that linear guides with ...
Type
article