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Development and performance evaluation of a dead weight force machine in 2–50N range

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Results of the performance evaluation of a newly designed, developed and fabricated dead weight machines to realize forces in the range of (2–50) N are reported in this paper. Precision load cells of 20N, 50N and 100N having an expanded uncertainty of ± 0.03% are used for this evaluation. The calibration of these load cells against the dead weight force machine shows that the repeatability (Rep) and reproducibility (Repr) are better than 0.003% and 0.005% respectively, over the entire range. The calibration data observed is found to closely agree with the calibration results obtained directly against the Physikalsich-Technische Bundesanstalt (PTB), Germany force standard machine having the relative measurement uncertainty of the force scale in the measuring range ≤ 0.002%.

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  1. National Physical Laboratory (NPLI), Council of Scientific and Industrial Research (CSIR), New Delhi, 100 012, India

    S. S. K. Titus, Poonam Yadav & Kamlesh K. Jain

  2. Department of Mechanical Engineering, SDM College of Engineering & Technology, Dharward, Karnataka, India

    S. K. Dhulkhe

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Titus, S.S.K., Dhulkhe, S.K., Yadav, P. et al. Development and performance evaluation of a dead weight force machine in 2–50N range. MAPAN 24, 225–232 (2009). https://doi.org/10.1007/s12647-009-0027-5

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