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Issues and advantages of gauge block calibration by mechanical comparison
Author(s): Ruedi Thalmann; Hugo Baechler
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Paper Abstract

An analysis of gauge block calibrations by mechanical comparison carried out at METAS with several sets of gauge blocks during several years has demonstrated very small variations. It is shown, that under optimum conditions with respect to laboratory environment and instrumental equipment as well as by following a suitable handling and measurement procedure, the contribution in the uncertainty budget added by the mechanical comparison process to the uncertainty of the interferometrically calibrated reference gauge blocks can be very small.

Paper Details

Date Published: 20 November 2003
PDF: 8 pages
Proc. SPIE 5190, Recent Developments in Traceable Dimensional Measurements II, (20 November 2003); doi: 10.1117/12.506131
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Ruedi Thalmann, Swiss Federal Office of Metrology and Accreditation (Switzerland)
Hugo Baechler, Swiss Federal Office of Metrology and Accreditation (Switzerland)


Published in SPIE Proceedings Vol. 5190:
Recent Developments in Traceable Dimensional Measurements II
Jennifer E. Decker; Nicholas Brown, Editor(s)

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