| Section 1 | Machine Tool Machining Performance | |
| Energy and temperature analysis in grinding | 3 |
| Milling machine tool stability and performance | 25 |
| Ultra-high speed turning on a vertical machining centre of aerospace aluminium alloys | 35 |
| Investigation of the cutting force coefficients in ball-end milling | 45 |
| Difficulties in characterising roll surfaces | 55 |
| High-precision automated polishing of engineering components | 65 |
| Section 2 | Metrology Applications | |
| Metrology for parallel kinematic machine tools (PKM) | 77 |
| Unisquare, a new device to measure the geometric errors of parallel kinematics | 89 |
| Behaviour and accuracy specification-study on an LED-CMOS camera 3D measuring system | 97 |
| Surface analysis techniques to optimise the performance of CNC machine tools | 107 |
| Section 3 | CMM Inspection and Volumetric Performance | |
| Inspection of large CMMs by sequential multi-lateration using a single laser tracker | 121 |
| Investigating the volumetric performance of multi-axis measurement arms | 131 |
| Volumetric positioning accuracy of a vertical machining center equipped with linear motor drives (evaluated by the laser vector method) | 141 |
| Section 4 | Tool Path Generation, Algorithms and Drives | |
| Curve fitting with arc splines for NC toolpath generation | 153 |
| Identification of modal parameters affecting the dynamic performance of CNC machine tools | 161 |
| Modelling and simulation of the turning process | 171 |
| A servo parameter tuning method for high-speed NC machine tools based on contouring error measurement | 181 |
| Modelling and simulation of a feed drive using the transmission line modelling technique | 193 |
| Section 5 | CMM Application | |
| The development of sensors for CMMs | 205 |
| Inspection of curvic couplings using a CMM | 221 |
| Fixture evaluation based on CMM | 231 |
| Section 6 | CMM Analysis and Algorithm Development | |
| Analysis of linear and angular errors of a small coordinate measuring machine (SCMM) | 245 |
| Mating algorithms based on co-ordinate measurements and conclusions to geometrical dimensioning and tolerancing | 257 |
| Correctness of free form surface fitting algorithms | 263 |
| Form evaluation algorithms in coordinate metrology | 273 |
| Section 7 | Machine Tool, Elements and Sensors | |
| Machine tools for future-oriented production | 287 |
| Investigating power quality solutions for computer numerical control machine tools | 315 |
| Design optimisation of the head of a high-precision optical polishing machine | 325 |
| Section 8 | Gears, Transmissions and Sensors | |
| Modelling the dynamic behaviour of a ball-screw system taking into account the changing position of the ball-screw nut | 337 |
| Measuring and modelling heat transfer and thermal errors on a ballscrew feed drive system | 349 |
| Design of flat pad aerostatic bearings with the aid of finite element analysis | 361 |
| Worm gear meshing stiffness calculations based on experiments | 371 |
| Flaw detection and quantification for ferromagnetic steels using pulsed eddy current techniques and magnetization | 381 |
| A review of the fundamentals of the finite element simulation of metal cutting | 391 |
| Section 9 | Machine Tool Performance | |
| Machine tool performance: past and present research contributions from the Centre for Precision Technologies | 403 |
| Evaluating the structural dynamics of a vertical milling machine | 421 |
| Finite element analysis of the structural dynamics of a vertical milling machine | 431 |
| Active vibration control of machine tool structures - Part 1: DSP algorithms | 441 |
| Active vibration control of machine tool structures - Part 2: An experimental active-vibration control system | 451 |
| Section 10 | Machine Tool Measurement and Calibration | |
| A theoretical analysis of 4 body diagonal displacement measurement and sequential step diagonal measurement | 463 |
| Practical experience of thermal testing with reference to ISO 230 Part 3 | 473 |
| Evaluation of numerically controlled machine tool positioning accuracy | 485 |
| Identification method for scale, pitch and yaw deviations with linear measurements | 495 |
| Method for establishing machine tool performance specifications from part tolerance requirements | 507 |
| Six-degree-of-freedom measurement of machine tool thermal deviations caused by linear axis motion | 517 |
| Methodology and simulation of the calibration of a five-axis machine tool link geometry and motion errors using polynomial modelling and a telescoping magnetic ball-bar | 527 |
| Section 11 | Condition Monitoring and Instrumentation | |
| Development of VI-based predictive maintenance system | 547 |
| Opportunities, problems and solutions when instrumenting a machine tool for monitoring of cutting forces and vibrations | 557 |
| A general data logger for the measurement of the dynamics and the parameter estimation of machine tools | 569 |
| From manual grinding to CNC automation--a major step forward for the rod mill | 579 |
| Index of Authors | 589 |
