{"id":9144,"date":"2015-02-11T16:25:17","date_gmt":"2015-02-11T16:25:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/staging.asminternational.org\/hts-new\/results\/-\/journal_content\/56\/10192\/23532495\/NEWS\/"},"modified":"2023-02-07T04:49:46","modified_gmt":"2023-02-07T04:49:46","slug":"nist-is-recalibrating-and-restoring-its-million-pound-deadweight-machine","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.asminternational.org\/hts\/nist-is-recalibrating-and-restoring-its-million-pound-deadweight-machine\/","title":{"rendered":"NIST is recalibrating and restoring its million-pound deadweight machine"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\n\t<span style=\"font-family: Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif; font-size: 0.9375em; line-height: 1.333333333em;\">The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, reports that, for the first time in half a century, its one million pounds-force deadweight machine \u2013 the largest in the world \u2013 is being disassembled for cleaning, restoration, and recalibration. The first stage of the process, dismantling the top half of the three-story stack of weights, is now complete and the individual pieces are being cleaned in preparation for recalibration.<\/span><\/p>\n<p>\n\tCustomers who rely on this unique machine include U.S. aerospace manufacturers, U.S. military laboratories, and several top-end commercial force-calibration labs, which have performed hundreds or thousands of calibrations, all directly traceable to NIST.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tBuilt in 1965, the deadweight system consists of a stack of 20 stainless steel discs a little less than ten feet in diameter when assembled. Their average mass is just over 50,000 pounds each.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tIn addition to cleaning and recalibration, some of the surfaces deep within the weight stack are being restored by minor machining to permit more free operation at those interfaces. Theorists are also modeling the stack to give researchers insight into the deflections where the stresses are highest.<\/p>\n<p>\n\tDismantling the weight stack took several weeks, because each piece had to be unbolted and carefully lifted with a series of cranes. Watch the video reel (at right) for highlights of the disassembly process.<\/p>\n<p>\n\t<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nist.gov\/\">www.nist.gov<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\n\t&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The National Institute of Standards and Technology, Washington, reports that, for the first time in half a century, its one million pounds-force deadweight machine \u2013 the largest in the world \u2013 is being disassembled for cleaning, restoration, and recalibration.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":63082,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[444,439,440,441,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-9144","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-aerospace-and-defense","category-general","category-news","category-news-articles","category-uncategorized"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v27.9 - 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