A New Thermal Error Control Method for Spindle System of High Precision Computer Numerical Control Machine Tools

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  • Shaanxi Key Laboratory of Intelligent Robots; State Key Laboratory for Manufacturing Systems Engineering, Xi’an Jiaotong University, Xi’an 710049, China

Received date: 2019-01-16

  Online published: 2020-12-04

Abstract

In order to solve the problem of thermal errors in the spindle system of high precision computer numerical control (CNC) machine tools, a novel active control method for spindle thermal deformation was proposed. Besides, a helical coil cooler was designed, the influence of silicone grease thickness on the contact thermal resistance between a spindle and a cooler was analyzed, and a thermal resistance model was established. Based on the simplified spindle system, a thermal-fluid-solid finite element model was constructed, and the cooling parameters were simulated. The finite element model was verified by using a temperature control system. The results show that the finite element model can effectively predict the variation of thermal characteristics of the spindle system. The cooler has a high heat exchange efficiency, the thermal equilibration time is reduced by 68%, and the thermal error is reduced by 19%. This study provides a new idea for thermal error control of precision machine tool spindle.

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ZHAO Liang,LEI Mohan,ZHU Xingxing,WANG Shuai,LING Zheng,YANG Jun,MEI Xuesong . A New Thermal Error Control Method for Spindle System of High Precision Computer Numerical Control Machine Tools[J]. Journal of Shanghai Jiaotong University, 2020 , 54(11) : 1165 -1171 . DOI: 10.16183/j.cnki.jsjtu.2019.031

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