Machine Tool Design

Presented here are 73 refereed papers given at the 34th MATADOR Conference held at UMIST in July 2004.

The first part of this volume provides the user with assistance in the selection and design of important machine and frame components. It also provides help with machine design, calculation and optimization of these components in terms of their static, dynamic and thermoelastic behavior. This includes machine installation, hydraulic systems, transmissions, as well as industrial design and guidelines for machine design.

This volume is dedicated to application of modern tools and the progressive construction of headstock. An examples are presented of the application of machining tools in the orthoses manufacture.

Research and development of various parallel mechanism applications in engineering is being performed more and more across every industrial field. Parallel robot based machine tools development is considered a key technology of robot applications in manufacturing industries. Parallel Robotic Machine Tools describes the basic theory, approaches, and algorithms in the field.