The goal of the team project was to build a device that could measure the force during high speed machining. The dynamometer had to meet several criteria for size and performance. The dynamometers design met or exceeded most all of the design goals. The first goal was to be able to measure the force during high speed drilling. This goal was meet as shown by the fact that one can correlate the voltage output from strain gauges to the force being applied to the design. In addition, not only could one correlate the voltage to the applied force, but the relationship between the voltage and the force was extremely linear for all three components of the force. This linear relationship allows for easy determination, by an operator, of the force generated by a machine during operation. In addition, each of the component gauges was able to read the design component and at the same time the gauges were able to not read the force from other components of the force. This minimization of cross talk is extremely important when it come to reading the accuracy of the signal. Furthermore, other design goals such as fitting he new dynamometer into the current machine apparatus were also meet. A new base was fabricated which allowed for the device to be mounted onto the current machining bed. In addition a cover for the device was also fabricated allowing the device to be operated while coolant is being used to cutting the material. Furthermore the cut was made in the top of the device allowing some of the current molded teeth to be place into the device.
