In mechanical engineering, aerospace industry, energy industry, building industry, safety
engineering and testing, forces with nominal values of 15 MN and more have to be measured.
The application of force measuring devices can be totally different from their calibration.
Traceable calibrations of suitable transfer standards should improve the measurement
of forces in industrial applications. To reduce the uncertainty of measurement in practical
applications, parasitic components and effects that are related to real loading procedures
which might be very different from the static calibration procedures, have to be taken into
account. Furthermore, the force range should be extended to larger nominal values. It is estimated
that there is a need to measure forces up to 30 MN.
Therefore, newly developed force transfer standards with highest nominal values have to be
investigated in order to improve the measurement of forces and the dissemination of the
quantity of force. Thus, parasitic components and different loading effects will be analyzed to
consider these effects when the device is used in industrial applications.
In the highest force range, build-up systems are used and the question about the uncertainty
evaluation of such systems arises. Here it is necessary to provide the user with procedures
on how to use this kind of force measurement devices in this range and offer the corresponding
methods of uncertainty calculation.
This project is part of the European Metrology Research Programme (EMRP, http://www.euramet.org/index.php?id=emrp); it is partly funded by the European Union on the basis of Decision No 912/2009/EC.