Researches on the Measurement Rebuilding and Multi-Axis Flank Milling NC Machining of the Compressor Impeller

The ruled surface of impeller is widely used in the industry of automobile, shipbuilding, aerospace and aeronautics. Researches on the manufacture of blade possess general meaning. The importance of their performance in the certain field and the non-replace ability of their functions in the specified mechanical systems have resulted in that the technology of manufacturing and measurement for ruled surfaces has been a critical research project in the field of dimensional manufacturing and measurements. With the rapid development of the modern science and technology, complex ruled surfaces are employed more and more widely, but their tolerances become narrower and narrower. The common impeller surfaces represented by NURBS are given and then curve and surface interpolation algorithm represented by NURBS are presented. These provide theoretical foundation for NC machining programming of impeller surface. Principals of normal offset curve and inclined offset surface are used to simplify the model. The NC milling method of divide area is presented to raise machining efficiency and to improve quality of machined surface. The machining efficiency is important in line property of rule surface, flank milling rule surface with end-milling, improve surface quality and cutter efficiency. This paper presents a calculate method to generate five-axis flank milling NC code of divide area in the blade of compressor with Vericut simulating the five-axis flank milling NC code and measurement the result of processing that verification the precision of five-axis flank milling. This paper also simulates four-axis machining for comparing cutting efficiency between five-axis machining and four-axis machining and the status of both the great differences in processing efficiency.