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Item Open Access Evaluation of the performance variation of porous air pads on discontinuous surfaces(Elsevier, 2019-10-31) Sanz, Claude; Morantz, Paul; Lunt, Alexander J. G.; Shore, Paul; Chérif, Ahmed; Schneider, Jürgen; Mainaud-Durand, Hélène; Steffens, NorbertA new high accuracy position measurement system has been developed. It measures the position of a 0.1 mm diameter copper-beryllium wire that informs alignment of energy beams in advanced particle accelerators. This new measurement system employs air pads to provide precision and friction free rotation of a sensor. To enable the measuring system to be positioned over the wire, a slot is required in the measuring device rotor. To optimise the design of this measuring system it was necessary to understand the performance of the air pads as they pass over the gaps (slots) in the rotor. This paper describes modelling and experiments that were performed to gain understanding of air pad performance when encountering such a surface gap. Particularly, an analytical model of the variation of load of a 20 mm × 40 mm porous air pad during the passing of a 1.5 mm wide slotted surface. Subsequent experimentation revealed that the general behaviour of the load variation had been captured effectively. The results of this analysis reveal that air pads of this size can reliably pass above an opening of this size with about 14% reduction in force. The results and the methodology presented in this paper can be used as an effective basis for future designs and studiesItem Open Access New potential for the Leitz Infinity Coordinate Measuring Machine(Euspen, 2015-06-01) Sanz, Claude; Cherif, Ahmed; Mainaud-Durand, Hélène; Schneider, Jürgen; Steffens, Norbert; Morantz, Paul; Shore, PaulThe following study is realised within the frame of the PACMAN project: a study on Particle Accelerator Components Metrology and Alignment to the Nanometre scale, which is a Marie Curie program supported by the European commission and hosted by CERN (European Organisation for Nuclear Research). The aim of this program is to develop and build a pre-alignment bench on which each component is aligned to the required level in one single step using a stretched wire. During the operation, the centre of the stretched wire is aligned with the magnetic axis of the magnet. Then, the position of the wire is measured to the highest possible accuracy using a 3D Coordinate Measuring Machine (CMM) Leitz PMM-C Infinity from HEXAGON Metrology. The research described in this paper is two-fold: on one hand we apply a strong magnetic field to the head of the CMM and evaluate its influence on the measurement accuracy; on the other hand we measure the position