DEVELOPMENT AND METROLOGICAL CHARACTERIZATION OF A 1000 N·m TORQUE COMPARATOR MACHINE FOR CALIBRATING TORQUE WRENCH TESTERS

S. S. K.Titus, S. K. Jain
Abstract:
The National Physical Laboratory, India NPL(I) has established torque scale up to 2000 N·m with calibration and measurement capability up to 0.01%, which has demonstrated a degree of equivalence in the BIPM CCM-T.K.1.1 key comparison. A torque comparator machine has been designed and developed at NPL, India for providing the national traceability of torque scale to the users without much degradation in the accuracy of measurement for certain industrial applications. This paper describes the salient features of the machine and the performance evaluation of the machine up to 1000 N·m. The expanded uncertainty associated with torque generated by this machine is found to be within ± 0.1% which is adequate for performing the calibration of industrial type torque wrench testers.
Keywords:
torque standards, comparison calibration, measurement uncertainty
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Event details
Event name:
XX IMEKO World Congress
Title:

Metrology for Green Growth

Place:
Busan, REPUBLIC of KOREA
Time:
09 September 2012 - 12 September 2012