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Precision Engineering xxx (2005) xxx–xxx Modelling thermomechanical behaviour of multi-axis machine tools F.L.M. Delbressine ∗, G.H.J. Florussen, L.A. Schijvenaars, P.H.J. Schellekens Department of Mechanical Engineering, Eindhoven University of Technology, Eindhoven, The Netherlands Received 8 July 2004; received in revised form 20 January 2005; accepted 4 May 2005 Abstract This paper describes a method to measure and model the thermally induced positioning errors of multi-axis machines. These errors result from changes in temperature distribution of such a machine. To achieve a reduction of the machine’s tool positioning errors a generally applicable model has been developed. First the temperature distribution of a machine tool is computed from a limited number of sensors. Using this calculated temperature distribution and a deformation model based on the machine’s structural loop and rigid body kinematics the tool positioning error is computed. To validate the developed thermomechanical model a new measuring method based on three-dimensional length measurements has been used. © 2005 Elsevier Inc. All rights reserved. Keywords: Thermal error compensation; Telescopic double ball bar; Machine tools; Extended lumped capacitance method 1. Introduction respective machine tool [2,3,8–12]. In Fig. 1, a typical setup for measuring the thermally induced drift is depicted. By The positioning accuracy of machine tools is affected to monitoring the displacement transducer signals, the change a large extent by the thermomechanical behaviour of the in position and orientation of the tool relative to the workpiece compone