Double cantilever beam-encoding lead screw combined sensing tensile test method and machine
11513043 · 2022-11-29
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The present invention discloses a double cantilever beam-encoding lead screw combined sensing tensile test method and machine. The double cantilever beam-encoding lead screw combined sensing tensile test machine comprises a main frame, a standard, a test piece and a microcomputer numerical control unit. The main frame is a force-deformation combined sensing mechanism composed of a double cantilever beam sensor, an encoding lead screw and a drive device. The double cantilever beam sensor is composed of a fixed cantilever beam sensor and a movable cantilever beam sensor. The encoding lead screw is composed of a drive lead screw and a tristate encoder. The double cantilever beam sensor matches with the encoding lead screw to achieve three functions, namely, test piece clamping, force sensing and deformation sensing, as well as to measure the size of the test piece.
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A double cantilever beam-encoding lead screw combined sensing tensile test machine, wherein a test system comprises a main frame (ZJ), a standard (0), a test piece and a numerical control unit; the main frame (ZJ) comprises a base, a support plate, a force-deformation combined sensing mechanism, a drive device and a cross-section measuring and locating support; the base has a box-shaped structure, an upper surface of a top plate of the base is flat, a sliding bearing is arranged at a center of the top plate, an axis of the sliding bearing is in a vertical direction, and four threaded holes are symmetrically distributed around the sliding bearing; the support plate is a trapezoid thick plate vertically fixed to an upper portion of the top plate of the base, and its right end is close to a right end of the base; a middle surface, namely, a longitudinal symmetry plane, of the support plate is vertical to a right side face of the base and passes through the axis of the sliding bearing; a top of the support plate has a horizontal protruded platform extending to a left side, a bearing hole is machined in the protruded platform, and an axis of the bearing hole is superposed with the axis of the sliding bearing; a U-shaped guide slot is machined in the left side of the support plate in the vertical direction; the force-deformation combined sensing mechanism comprises a force sensing mechanism and a deformation sensing mechanism; the force sensing mechanism comprises a drive lead screw and a double cantilever beam sensor; the deformation sensing mechanism comprises an encoding lead screw and the double cantilever beam sensor; the encoding lead screw comprises the drive lead screw and a tristate encoder; the drive lead screw is commonly used by the force sensing mechanism and the deformation sensing mechanism, and so the double cantilever beam sensor is; a structure of the drive lead screw is divided into four sections, namely z.sub.1, z.sub.2, z.sub.3, and z.sub.4, from top to bottom; section z.sub.1 is a first unthreaded shaft, section z.sub.2 is a threaded rod, section z.sub.3 is a protruded step, and section z.sub.4 is a second unthreaded shaft; the drive lead screw is mounted on the base through a matching of the first unthreaded shaft and the bearing hole, a rotary sliding matching of a lower end face of the protruded step and an upper end face of the sliding bearing, a matching of the second unthreaded shaft and the sliding bearing, a hole-axis interference fit of a guard disc and the second unthreaded shaft, and the rotary sliding matching of the upper end face of the guard disc and a lower end face of the sliding bearing; the double cantilever beam sensor comprises a fixed cantilever beam sensor and a movable cantilever beam sensor, the fixed cantilever beam sensor comprises a variable-section elastic beam, an upward lower jaw mounted at the free end of the variable-section elastic beam, a lower clamping blade block protruded upwards and embedded in a right side of the lower jaw, uniaxial resistance strain gauges R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 respectively adhered to the upper side surface and the lower side surface close to a root of the cantilever beam, and a root round hole; the movable cantilever beam sensor comprises a variable-section elastic beam, a downward upper jaw mounted at the free end of the variable-section elastic beam, an upper clamping blade block protruded downwards and embedded in the right side of the upper jaw, two uniaxial resistance strain gauges R.sub.3 and R.sub.5 adhered to the lower side surface close to the root of the cantilever beam, and two uniaxial resistance strain gauges R.sub.4 and R.sub.6 adhered to the upper side surface close to the root of the cantilever beam, a drive nut with internal threads embedded in the root of the cantilever beam in an interference fit manner, and a cylindrical limit pin; a gate axes of resistance strain gauges R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 are parallel with the axes of the located cantilever beams; a root of the fixed cantilever beam sensor is fixedly connected with a left lower portion of the support plate; meanwhile, the drive lead screw penetrates through a round hole at the root of the fixed cantilever beam sensor, a certain space exists between the drive lead screw and the round hole, and the drive lead screw and the round hole are not in contact; the movable cantilever beam sensor is mounted on the drive lead screw through the matching of the drive nut and the threaded rod and the sliding matching of the limit pin and a U-shaped guide slot of the support plate; the fixed cantilever beam sensor and the movable cantilever beam sensor are symmetrically arranged; the variable-section elastic beam of the fixed cantilever beam sensor and the variable-section elastic beam of the movable cantilever beam sensor have the same shape, size and material, a cross section of the beam is rectangular, the beam is divided into a rigid section ab and a flexible section bc from the free end a to a root c, a width of the rigid section ab and a width of the flexible section bc are the same, and a height H of the rigid section ab is larger than a height h of the flexible section bc; a lower jaw and an upper jaw have the same structure, their positions are symmetrical, the lower jaw is formed by two lower L-shaped clamping blocks and two lower locking screws, and the upper jaw is formed by two upper L-shaped clamping blocks and two upper locking screws; an upper end face of the lower L-shaped clamping block and an upper surface of the variable-section elastic beam of the fixed cantilever beam sensor are coplanar; a lower end face of the upper L-shaped clamping block and a lower surface of the variable-section elastic beam of the movable cantilever beam sensor are coplanar; a distance l between the upper surface of the fixed cantilever beam sensor and a lower surface of the movable cantilever beam sensor is called a loading beam space; the lower clamping blade block and an upper clamping blade block are rigid cylinders with the same shape and size, and their axes are parallel with the axes of the fixed cantilever beam sensor and the movable cantilever beam sensor; a first indicative line and a second indicative line are engraved in a front side face and a back side face of the variable-section elastic beam of the fixed cantilever beam sensor in a vertical direction, the first indicative line is located in a middle surface of the lower L-shaped clamping block of the lower jaw, and the second indicative line is located in the middle surface of the lower clamping blade block; a third indicative line and a fourth indicative line are engraved in the front side face and the back side face of the variable-section elastic beam of the movable cantilever beam sensor in the vertical direction; the third indicative line is located in a middle surface of the upper L-shaped clamping block of the upper jaw and is colinear with the first indicative line, and the fourth indicative line s located in a middle surface of the upper clamping blade block and is colinear with the second indicative line; the resistance strain gauges R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 form a full-bridge measuring circuit, and is called a displacement-deformation sensing circuit, and a strain signal generated by a circuit is ε.sub.rd; the resistance strain gauges R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 form a full-bridge measuring circuit, and is called a force sensing circuit, and a strain signal generated by the circuit is ε.sub.rf; a tristate encoder comprises a toothed disc, a sensor support, a left upper cantilever beam sensor, a right upper cantilever beam sensor, a left lower cantilever beam sensor, and a right lower cantilever beam sensor; the toothed disc has a plurality of arc-shaped teeth, is located below the guard disc, and is coaxially fixed to the second unthreaded shaft of the drive lead screw; a number of the arc-shaped teeth is an integer times of 4; the sensor support is a rectangular frame, and an unthreaded hole vertical to the frame plane is respectively machined in middle portions of four sides of the frame; a rectangular through hole and a threaded hole vertically communicated with the rectangular through hole are respectively machined in positions close to each side corner, and an axis of the rectangular through hole is parallel with the frame plane and vertical to a located side; the sensor support is fixed to a lower surface of the top plate of the base through a matching of fastening bolts and spacing sleeves with the unthreaded holes and the threaded holes, and the sensor support surrounds the toothed disc; the left upper cantilever beam sensor, the right upper cantilever beam sensor, the left lower cantilever beam sensor, and the right lower cantilever beam sensor adopt uniform-section elastic beams or variable-section elastic beams, and four elastic beams are respectively fixed to the upper side inner wall, the right side inner wall, the left side inner wall, and the lower side inner wall of the sensor support through the matching of the roots of the four elastic beams with the rectangular through holes under a compression action of fastening screws; uniaxial resistance strain gauges [R.sub.7, R.sub.8], [R.sub.9, R.sub.10], [R.sub.11, R.sub.12], and [R.sub.13, R.sub.14] are adhered to an upper surface and a lower surface or a left surface and a right surface of the four elastic beams close to roots of the four elastic beams in axial directions of the elastic beams, respectively; a left triangular ridge, an upper triangular ridge, a lower triangular ridge, and a right triangular ridge are respectively machined on one side of the four elastic beams close to a free end towards the toothed disc; the elastic beams of the mounted left upper cantilever beam sensor, the right upper cantilever beam sensor, the left lower cantilever beam sensor, and the right lower cantilever beam sensor have a certain pre-deformation; the elastic pressure generated by the pre-deformation makes vertexes of the left triangular ridge, the upper triangular ridge, the lower triangular ridge, and the right triangular ridge come into contact with the arc-shaped teeth on the circumference of the toothed disc; specific positions of four contact points are determined by the following conditions: a. it is assumed that a longitudinal symmetric line of the toothed disc just passes through centers of a highest arc-shaped tooth and a lowest arc-shaped tooth, and a horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc just passes through the centers of a leftmost arc-shaped tooth and a rightmost arc-shaped tooth; b. at this time, the right triangular ridge is located above the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc and the rightmost arc-shaped tooth and is aligned to a valley bottom between two adjacent arc-shaped teeth; the left triangular ridge is located on the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc and is just in contact with the vertex of the leftmost arc-shaped tooth; the upper triangular ridge and the lower triangular ridge are located on the right side of the longitudinal symmetric line of toothed disc, and are respectively in contact with the right side of the highest arc-shaped tooth and the right side of the lowest arc tooth; h.sub.min represents a distance from the right triangular ridge to the longitudinal symmetric line of the toothed disc; h.sub.max represents a distance from the left triangular ridge to the longitudinal symmetric line of the toothed disc; h.sub.mid represents a distance from the contact point of the upper triangular ridge and the highest arc-shaped tooth to the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc as well as a distance from the contact point of the lower triangular ridge and the lowest arc-shaped tooth to the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc; h.sub.mid, h.sub.min, and h.sub.max have the relationship shown in formula (1):
l.sub.min=2u (3) in formula (3), u represents the height of the upper clamping blade block protruded out of the lower surface of the movable cantilever beam sensor, and also represents the height of the lower clamping blade block protruded out of the upper surface of the fixed cantilever beam sensor; (2), calibration of a force measurement system: connecting the force sensing circuit formed by the resistance strain gauges R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 to the numerical control unit; adjusting the movable cantilever beam sensor to a proper height, utilizing the upper jaw of the movable cantilever beam sensor to suspend a standard weight, applying a group of standard forces F.sub.1, F.sub.2, . . . , and F.sub.N to the movable cantilever beam sensor; or, utilizing a standard load sensor, utilizing the upper jaw of the movable cantilever beam sensor and the lower jaw of the fixed cantilever beam sensor to clamp the standard load sensor, and applying a group of standard forces F.sub.1, F.sub.2, . . . , and F.sub.N to the movable cantilever beam sensor, wherein the size relationship of the standard forces is F.sub.1<F.sub.2<, . . . , <F.sub.N, and the line of action of each standard force is simultaneously aligned to the first indicative line and the third indicative line; recording the strain readings ε.sub.rf.sub.
l.sub.0=l.sub.min+S.sub.0=2u+S.sub.0 (14) in formula (14), when S.sub.0 represents F=0, the displacement amount S.sub.0 of the movable cantilever beam sensor corresponding to the displacement zero point P.sub.0 is calculated by formula (2); when the test piece is under the action of a tensile load, the length l of the test section continuously varies, and the variable l is calculated by formula (15):
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BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
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(14) In the drawings: 0—standard, 1—base, 2—sensor support, 3—guard disc, 4—sliding bearing, 5—step, 6—fixed cantilever beam sensor, 7—lower locking screw, 8—press plate, 9—support, 10—lower clamped blade block, 11—root round hole, 12—upper clamped blade block, 13—test piece, 14—upper locking screw, 15—movable cantilever beam sensor, 16—drive lead screw, 17—bearing hole, 18—support plate, 19—U-shaped guide slot, 20—drive nut, 21—cylindrical limit pin, 22—upper L-shaped clamping block, 23—lower L-shaped clamping block, 24—threaded hole, 25—spacing sleeve, 26—unthreaded hole, 27—tristate encoder, 28—fastening bolt, 29—toothed disc, 30—left upper cantilever beam sensor, 31—drive device, 32—left triangular ridge, 33—upper triangular ridge, 34—right upper cantilever beam sensor, 35—threaded hole, 36—fastening screw, 37—rectangular through hole, 38—arc tooth, 39—right lower cantilever beam sensor, 40—right triangular ridge, 41—lower triangular ridge, 42—left lower cantilever beam sensor, 43—locking bolt, 44—threaded hole, 45—first indicative line, 46—second indicative line, 47—third indicative line, 48—fourth indicative line, 49—first unthreaded shaft, 50—second unthreaded shaft, 51—threaded rod, 52—long straight beam, 53—short straight beam, 54—bending section, 55—test piece clamper, and ZJ—main frame.
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(15) The following describes the present invention with reference to the accompanying drawings. Referring to
(16) The main frame ZJ comprises a base 1, a support plate 18, a force-deformation combined sensing mechanism, a drive device 31 and a cross-section measuring and locating support.
(17) The base 1 has a box-shaped structure, the upper surface of a top plate of the base is flat, a sliding bearing 4 is arranged at the center of the top plate, the axis of the sliding bearing is in the vertical direction, and four threaded holes 24 are symmetrically distributed around the sliding bearing 4. The support plate 18 is a trapezoid thick plate vertically fixed to the upper portion of the top plate of the base 1, and its right end is close to the right end of the base 1. The middle surface, namely, a longitudinal symmetry plane, of the support plate 18 is vertical to the right side face of the base 1 and passes through the axis of the sliding bearing 4. The top of the support plate 18 has a horizontal protruded platform extending to the left side, a hearing hole 17 is machined in the protruded platform, and the axis of the bearing hole 17 is superposed with the axis of the sliding bearing 4. A U-shaped guide slot 19 is machined in the left side of the support plate 18 in the vertical direction.
(18) The force-deformation combined sensing mechanism comprises a force sensing mechanism and a deformation sensing mechanism. The force sensing mechanism comprises a drive lead screw 16 and a double cantilever beam sensor. The deformation sensing mechanism comprises an encoding lead screw and the double cantilever beam sensor. The encoding lead screw comprises the drive lead screw 16 and a tristate encoder 27.
(19) The drive lead screw 16 is commonly used by the force sensing mechanism and the deformation sensing mechanism, and so the double cantilever beam sensor is. The structure of the drive lead screw 16 is divided into four sections, namely z.sub.1, z.sub.2, z.sub.3, and z.sub.4, from top to bottom. Section z.sub.1 is the first unthreaded shaft 49, section z.sub.2 is a threaded rod 51, section z.sub.3 is a protruded step 5, and section z.sub.4 is the second unthreaded shaft 50. The drive lead screw 16 is mounted on the base 1 through the matching of the first unthreaded shaft 49 and the bearing hole 17, the rotary sliding matching of the lower end face of the step 5 and the upper end face of the sliding bearing 4, the matching of the second unthreaded shaft 50 and the sliding bearing 4, the hole-axis interference fit of a guard disc 3 and the second unthreaded shaft 50, and the rotary sliding matching of the upper end face of the guard disc 3 and the lower end face of the sliding bearing 4.
(20) The double cantilever beam sensor comprises a fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 and a movable cantilever beam sensor 15. The fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 comprises a variable-section elastic beam, an upward lower jaw mounted at the free end of the variable-section elastic beam, a lower clamping blade block 10 protruded upwards and embedded in the right side of the lower jaw, uniaxial resistance strain gauges R.sub.1 and R.sub.2 respectively adhered to the upper side surface and the lower side surface close to the root of the cantilever beam, and a root round hole 11. The movable cantilever beam sensor 15 comprises a variable-section elastic beam, a downward upper jaw mounted at the free end of the variable-section elastic beam, an upper clamping blade block 12 protruded downwards and embedded in the right side of the upper jaw, two uniaxial resistance strain gauges R.sub.3 and R.sub.5 adhered to the lower side surface close to the root of the cantilever beam, and two uniaxial resistance strain gauges R.sub.4 and R.sub.6 adhered to the upper side surface close to the root of the cantilever beam, a drive nut 20 with internal threads embedded in the root of the cantilever beam in an interference fit manner, and a cylindrical limit pin 21. The gate axes of the resistance strain gauges R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 are parallel with the axes of the located cantilever beams. The root of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 is fixedly connected with the left lower portion of the support plate 18; meanwhile, the drive lead screw 16 penetrates through the round hole 11 at the root of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6, a certain space exists between the drive lead screw 16 and the round hole 11, and the drive lead screw and the round hole are not in contact. The movable cantilever beam sensor 15 is mounted on the drive lead screw 16 through the matching of the drive nut 20 and the threaded rod 51 and the sliding matching of the limit pin. 21 and the U-shaped guide slot 19 of the support plate 18. A matching pair of the drive nut 20 and the threaded rod 51 utilizes a clearance elimination measure. Theoretically, the matching space of the matching pair is zero, so, in the x-y plane, the right side of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 can be taken as the fixed end utilizing the threaded rod 51 as the fixed support. The fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 and the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 are symmetrically arranged. The variable-section elastic beam of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 and the variable-section elastic beam of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 have the same shape, size and material, the cross section of the beam is rectangular, the beam is divided into a rigid section ab and a flexible section bc from the free end a to the root c, the width of the rigid section ab and the width of the flexible section bc are the same, and the height H of the rigid section ab is larger than the height h of the flexible section bc. The lower jaw and the upper jaw have the same structure, their positions are symmetrical, the lower jaw is formed by two lower L-shaped clamping blocks 23 and two lower locking screws 7, and the upper jaw is formed by two upper L-shaped clamping blocks 22 and two upper locking screws 14. The upper end face of the lower L-shaped clamping block 23 and the upper surface of the variable-section elastic beam of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 are coplanar; the lower end face of the upper L-shaped clamping block 22 and the lower surface of the variable-section elastic beam of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 are coplanar. The lower clamping blade block 10 and the upper clamping blade block 12 are rigid cylinders with the same shape and size, and their axes are parallel with the axes of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 and the movable cantilever beam sensor 15. The first indicative line 45 and the second indicative line 46 are engraved in the front side face and the back side face of the variable-section elastic beam of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 in the vertical direction, the first indicative line 45 is located in the middle surface of the lower L-shaped clamping block 23 of the lower jaw, and the second indicative line 46 is located in the middle surface of the lower clamping blade block 10. The third indicative line 47 and the fourth indicative line 48 are engraved in the front side face and the back side face of the variable-section elastic beam of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 in the vertical direction; the third indicative line 47 is located in the middle surface of the upper L-shaped clamping block 22 of the upper jaw and is colinear with the first indicative line 45, and the fourth indicative line 48 is located in the middle surface of the upper clamping blade block 12 and is colinear with the second indicative line 46.
(21) The fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 and the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 always have a certain flexible deformation in a testing process so as to cause the test piece clamper (namely the upper jaw and the lower jaw) to generate deflection, and the test piece deflects an ideal state of axial stress. To overcome such harmful situation, the elastomers of the two cantilever beam sensors may utilize the folded beam structure.
(22) The resistance strain gauges R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 form a full-bridge measuring circuit, and is called a displacement-deformation sensing circuit, and a strain signal generated by the circuit is ε.sub.rd; the resistance strain gauges R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 form a full-bridge measuring circuit, and is called a force sensing circuit, and a strain signal generated by the circuit is ε.sub.rf.
(23) The tristate encoder 27 comprises a toothed disc 29, a sensor support 2, a left upper cantilever beam sensor 30, a right upper cantilever beam sensor 34, a left lower cantilever beam sensor 42, and a right lower cantilever beam sensor 39. The toothed disc 29 has a plurality of arc-shaped teeth 38, is located below the guard disc 3, and is coaxially fixed to the second unthreaded shaft 50 of the drive lead screw 16. The number of the teeth is the integer times of 4, such as 128, 180, 360, and 1024. The sensor support 2 is a rectangular frame, and an unthreaded hole 26 vertical to the frame plane is respectively machined in the middle portions of four sides of the frame; a rectangular through hole 37 and a threaded hole 35 vertically communicated with the rectangular through hole 37 are respectively machined in positions close to each side corner, and the axis of the rectangular through hole is parallel with the frame plane and vertical to the located side. The sensor support 2 is fixed to the lower surface of the top plate of the base 1 through the matching of fastening bolts 28 and spacing sleeves 25 with the unthreaded holes 26 and the threaded holes 24, and the sensor support surrounds the toothed disc 29. The left upper cantilever beam sensor 30, the right upper cantilever beam sensor 34, the left lower cantilever beam sensor 42, and the right lower cantilever beam sensor 39 adopt uniform-section elastic beams or variable-section elastic beams, and the four elastic beams are respectively fixed to the upper side inner wall, the right side inner wall, the left side inner wall, and the lower side inner wall of the sensor support 2 through the matching of the roots of the four elastic beams with the rectangular through holes 37 under the compression action of fastening screws 36. The uniaxial resistance strain gauges [R.sub.7, R.sub.8], [R.sub.9, R.sub.10], [R.sub.11, R.sub.12], and [R.sub.13, R.sub.14] are adhered to the upper surface and lower surface or the left surface and the right surface of the four elastic beams close to the roots of the four elastic beams in the axial directions of the elastic beams, respectively. A left triangular ridge 32, an upper triangular ridge 33, a lower triangular ridge 41, and a right triangular ridge 40 are respectively machined on one side of the four elastic beams close to the free end towards the toothed disc 29. The elastic beams of the four mounted cantilever beam sensors have a certain bending deformation called pre-deformation; the elastic pressure generated by the pre-deformation makes the vertexes of the left triangular ridge 32, the upper triangular ridge 33, the lower triangular ridge 41, and the right triangular ridge 40 come into contact with the arc teeth 38 on the circumference of the toothed disc 29. The specific positions of four contact points are determined by the following conditions:
(24) a. It is assumed that the longitudinal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29 just passes through the centers of the highest arc tooth 38 and the lowest arc tooth 38, and the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29 just passes through the centers of the leftmost arc tooth 38 and the rightmost arc tooth 38.
(25) b. At this time, the right triangular ridge 40 is located above the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29 and the rightmost arc tooth 38 and is just aligned to the valley bottom between the two adjacent arc teeth 38. The left triangular ridge 32 is located on the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29 and is just in contact with the vertex of the leftmost arc tooth 38. The upper triangular ridge 33 and the lower triangular ridge 41 are located on the right side of the longitudinal symmetric line of toothed disc 29, and are respectively in contact with the right side of the highest arc tooth 38 and the right side of the lowest arc tooth 38. h.sub.min represents the distance from the right triangular ridge 40 to the longitudinal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29. h.sub.max represents the distance from the left triangular ridge 32 to the longitudinal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29. h.sub.mid represents the distance from the contact point of the upper triangular ridge 33 and the highest arc tooth 38 to the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29 as well as the distance from the contact point of the lower triangular ridge 41 and the lowest arc tooth 38 to the horizontal symmetric line of the toothed disc 29. h.sub.mid, h.sub.min, and h.sub.max have the relationship shown in formula (1):
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(27) h.sub.min, h.sub.mid, and h.sub.max are collectively called the feature height, wherein h.sub.min is called the minimum feature height, h.sub.mid is called the average feature height, h.sub.max is called the maximum feature height.
(28) The drive device 31 is a motor-driven worm gear-worm mechanism or gear-toothed belt mechanism; the drive device drives the drive lead screw 16 to rotate forwards and reversely by matching with the second unthreaded shaft 50 of the drive lead screw 16.
(29) The encoding lead screw works in the following manners:
(30) (1), connecting a measurement circuit of the tristate encoder 27: respectively connecting the resistance strain gauges [R.sub.7, R.sub.8], [R.sub.9, R.sub.10], [R.sub.11, R.sub.12], and [R.sub.13, R.sub.14] to the numerical control unit in a half bridge manner; respectively utilizing ε.sub.r(R.sub.
(31) (2), initially adjusting the measurement circuits of the tristate encoder 27: utilizing the numerical control unit to control the drive lead screw 16 and the toothed disc 29 to rotate, wherein the strain readings ε.sub.r(R.sub.
(32) (3), determining the relationship between the strain readings ε.sub.r(R.sub.
(33) TABLE-US-00004 TABLE 1 tristate value combinations of strain readings ε.sub.r(R.sub.
(34) TABLE-US-00005 TABLE 2 variation of tristate values 0, ½, and 1 in every period T in a clockwise rotation process of the toothed disc 29 ε.sub.r(R.sub.
(35) In table 2, “↑” represents increase of the tristate value, and “↓” represents decrease of the tristate value.
(36) TABLE-US-00006 TABLE 3 variation of tristate values 0, ½, and 1 in every period T in an anticlockwise rotation process of the toothed disc 29 ε.sub.r(R.sub.
(37) In Table 3, “↑” represents increase of the tristate value, and “↓” represents decrease of the Instate value.
(38) Any tristate combination is selected from Table 1 to be taken as the starting point of the rotation state of the toothed disc 29. For clearly, the tristate combination 1 is selected from Table 1. So, when the toothed disc 29 rotates over one tooth clockwise, the tristate values complete the circulation of one period T as shown in Table 2; when the toothed disc 29 rotates over one tooth anticlockwise, the tristate values complete the circulation of one period T as shown in Table 3. In Table 2 and Table 3, the period T is divided into four ¼ sub periods. In every ¼ sub period, the tristate values of the four strain readings ε.sub.r(R.sub.
(39) (4), determining the displacement amount of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15: adjusting the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to a certain appointed position or any position of the drive lead screw 16, recording such position to be the displacement original point of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15, and meanwhile, recording the current position of the toothed disc 29 to be the toothed disc zero position; rotating the toothed disc 29 from the toothed disc zero position such that the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 accordingly moves from the displacement original point along the drive lead screw 16 upwards or downwards; wherein the displacement amount S of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 corresponding to the displacement original point is calculated by formula (2):
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(41) In formula (2), t represents the lead of the drive lead screw 16, N.sub.c represents the number of teeth of the toothed disc 29, n.sub.z,s represents the number of total rotating teeth of the toothed disc 29 during clockwise rotation from the toothed disc zero position, n.sub.z,n represents the number of total rotating teeth of the toothed disc 29 during anticlockwise rotation from the toothed disc zero position, n.sub.z,s and n.sub.z,n constantly are positive values, and n.sub.z represents the difference between n.sub.z,s and n.sub.z,n and is defined to be the number of efficient rotating teeth of the toothed disc 29. n.sub.z,s, n.sub.z,n, and n.sub.z are also called rotation parameters of the toothed disc. n.sub.z and S are algebraic values. When the toothed disc 29 rotates clockwise, the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 moves downwards, and the symbols of n.sub.z and S are “−”. When the toothed disc 29 rotates anticlockwise, the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 moves upwards, and the symbols of n.sub.z and S are “+”.
(42) The cross-section measuring and locating support comprises two supports 9 with V-shaped slots, two press plates 8 and four locking bolts 43. The two supports 9 are vertically mounted at the upper portion of the top plate of the base 1, are respectively located on two sides of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6, and are also symmetric about the middle surface of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6. The openings of the two V-shaped slots of the supports 9 face upwards and are located at the coaxial positions. The longitudinal symmetry plane of the V-shaped slot is superposed with the central sections of the lower clamping blade block 10 and the upper clamping blade block 12. Two through holes are machined in each press plate 8, and the four locking bolts 43 respectively pass through the four through holes to match with the threaded holes 44 on the two sides of the V-shaped slots in the tops of the supports 9.
(43) The standard 0 is a set of standard gauges, and n represents the number of the standard gauges, 2≤n≤10, generally n=6 or n=7. The structure of the standard gauge is a three-section step shaft; the middle section of the step shaft is a standard cylinder, and the left section and the right section thereof are locating unthreaded shafts. The diameter of the standard cylinder is called the standard diameter, sequentially represented by d.sub.1, d.sub.2, . . . , and d.sub.n, and is arranged in an order of d.sub.1<d.sub.2, . . . , <d.sub.n. d.sub.1, d.sub.2, . . . , and d.sub.n also represent corresponding standard gauges. The diameters d of the left and right section unthreaded shafts of each standard gauge are equal to each other. Any standard cylinder is selected as the reference cylinder, and its diameter is defined to be the reference diameter d.sub.0. The arithmetic average of d.sub.1, d.sub.2, . . . , d.sub.n is represented by
(44) The test piece 13 is made from materials, including circular-section metal filaments or artificial fibers, plant fibers, animal fibers, optical fibers and the like, and it may also be a low-modulus tensile test piece made of plastic and rubber with the large section area.
(45) The numerical control unit is a microcomputer control system with a strain signal acquisition-adjustment circuit. The measurement software is installed in the system. The measurement software comprises a force calibration-measurement program, a deformation calibration-measurement program, and a diameter calibration-measurement program. The algorithm of each program in the measurement software is designed according to Table 1, Table 2, Table 3, formula (1), formula (2), formula (3) to formula (15) and the following test methods.
(46) The testing process of the double cantilever beam-encoding lead screw combined sensing tensile test method and machine comprises test machine system calibration, test piece size measurement and tensile test, wherein the operating steps are as follows:
(47) (1), Displacement reference point adjustment of the test machine: respectively connecting the displacement-deformation sensing circuit formed by the resistance strain gauges R.sub.1, R.sub.2, R.sub.3, and R.sub.4 and the four half bridge measurement circuits formed by the resistance strain gauges [R.sub.7, R.sub.8], [R.sub.9, R.sub.10], [R.sub.11, R.sub.12], and [R.sub.13, R.sub.14] to the numerical control unit; adjusting the displacement-deformation sensing circuit to be an equilibrium state, that is, setting its output signal ε.sub.rd=0; adjusting the tristate encoder 27 by the initial four-step adjusting method; using the numerical control unit to control the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to approach to the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6, wherein, when the upper clamping blade block 12 and the lower clamping blade block 10 come into contact, and the strain value ε.sub.rd measured by the displacement-deformation sensing circuit is equal to the specified value ε.sub.rd.sub.
l.sub.min=2u (3)
(48) In formula (3), u represents the height of the upper clamping blade block 12 protruded out of the lower surface of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15, and also represents the height of the lower clamping blade block 10 protruded out of the upper surface of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6.
(49) (2), Calibration of a force measurement system: connecting the force sensing circuit formed by the resistance strain gauges R.sub.3, R.sub.4, R.sub.5, and R.sub.6 to the numerical control unit; adjusting the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to a proper height, utilizing the upper jaw of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to suspend a standard weight, applying a group of standard forces F.sub.1, F.sub.2, . . . , and F.sub.N to the movable cantilever beam sensor 15; or, utilizing a standard load sensor, utilizing the upper jaw of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 and the lower jaw of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 to clamp the standard load sensor, and applying a group of standard forces F.sub.1, F.sub.2, . . . , and F.sub.N to the movable cantilever beam sensor 15, wherein the size relationship of the standard forces is F.sub.1<F.sub.2<, . . . , <F.sub.N, and the line of action of each standard force is simultaneously aligned to the first indicative line 45 and the third indicative line 47; recording the strain readings ε.sub.rf.sub.
(50)
(51) In formula (4), A.sub.1 and B.sub.1 are constants and respectively calculated by formulae 5 and 6:
(52)
(53) In formulae (5) and (6), N represents the ordinal of each standard force, F.sub.i represents the values of standard forces with the different ordinals, and ε.sub.rf.sub.
(54) (3), Calibration of a diameter measurement system: adjusting the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to a proper height, locating the standard gauge d.sub.1 to the supports 9, and meanwhile, recording a strain signal measured by the displacement-deformation sensing circuit to be 0.5ε.sub.rd.sub.
(55)
(56) In formula (7), A.sub.2 and B.sub.2 are constants and are respectively calculated by formulae (8) and (9):
(57)
(58) In formulae (8) and (9), n represents the number of the standard gauges included in the standard; d.sub.i represents the diameters of standard cylinders with different diameters; ε.sub.rd.sub.
(59) (4), Calibration of a deformation measurement system: adjusting the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to a proper height, horizontally putting the standard gauge d.sub.1 between the upper jaw of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 and the lower jaw of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6, and ensuring the axis of the standard gauge d.sub.1 to be aligned to the first indicative line 45 and the third indicative line 47; controlling the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to move towards the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 to clamp the standard gauge d.sub.1; when the strain signal measured by the displacement-deformation sensing circuit is ε.sub.rd=ε.sub.rd.sub.
(60)
(61) In formula (10), A.sub.3 and B.sub.3 are constants and are respectively calculated by formulae (11) and (12):
(62)
(63) In formulae (11) and (12), d.sub.i represents the diameters of the standard cylinders with different diameters, ε*.sub.rd.sub.
(64) (5), Diameter measurement of the test piece: adjusting the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to a proper height, horizontally putting the test piece 13 between the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 and the movable cantilever beam sensor 15, and ensuring the axis of the test piece to be aligned to the second indicative line 46 and the fourth indicative line 48; controlling the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to move towards the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6 such that the upper clamping blade block 12 and the lower clamping blade block 10 clamp the test piece 13; when the strain signal measured by the displacement-deformation sensing circuit is ε.sub.rd=ε.sub.rd.sub.
(65)
(66) In formula (13), s is an algebraic value; when the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 moves towards the upper portion of the diameter measurement indication position, the symbol of s is “+”; when the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 moves towards the lower portion of the diameter measurement indication position, the symbol of s is “−”.
(67) (6), Tensile test:
(68) a. mounting the test piece: adjusting the loading beam space l according to the length of the test piece 13, putting the test piece 13 between the upper jaw of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 and the lower jaw of the fixed cantilever beam sensor 6, ensuring the axis of the test piece to be aligned to the first indicative line 45 and the third indicative line 47, and screwing down the locking screws 14 and 7 to ensure that the upper jaw and the lower jaw simultaneously tightly clamp the test piece 13, wherein a section of the mounted test piece 13 located between the upper jaw and the lower jaw is called a test section, the length of the test section is equal to the loading beam space, and is l;
(69) b. determining the original length of the test piece: adjusting the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 to slightly lift up or down by the numerical control unit to ensure that the load of the test piece 13 is zero, that is, the test force F=0; when F=0, defining the length of the test section of the test piece 13 to be the original length l.sub.0; calculating l.sub.0 by formula (14);
l.sub.0=l.sub.min+S.sub.0=2u+S.sub.0 (14)
(70) in formula (14), when S.sub.0 represents F=0, the displacement amount S.sub.0 of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 corresponding to the displacement zero point P.sub.0 is calculated by formula (2); when the test piece 13 is under the action of a tensile load, the length l of the test section continuously varies, and the variable l is calculated by formula (15):
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(72) in formula (15), S is the displacement amount of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15 corresponding to the displacement zero point P.sub.0, and is calculated by formula (2);
(73) c. testing the load: setting the loading speed by the numerical control unit, namely, the movement speed of the movable cantilever beam sensor 15; applying the tensile load to the test piece 13; using the numerical control unit to synchronously track and record the variation of the load F of the test piece 13 and the length l of the test section, obtaining the force F of the test piece 13 in real time based on formula (4), and obtaining the length l of the test section of the test piece 13 based on formula (15); using real time data of F and l to draw an F−l relation curve, namely a tensile test curve of the test piece 13.