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  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,977 Views
15 Pages

6 September 2023

The high-speed motorized spindle has been wildly used in the field of aerospace processing, due to its advantages such as high speed, high precision, and high efficiency. CNC machine tools used for processing aerospace products require high machining...

  • Article
  • Open Access
24 Citations
6,811 Views
14 Pages

Hybrid Prediction Model of the Temperature Field of a Motorized Spindle

  • Lixiu Zhang,
  • Chaoqun Li,
  • Yuhou Wu,
  • Ke Zhang and
  • Huaitao Shi

22 October 2017

The thermal characteristics of a motorized spindle are the main determinants of its performance, and influence the machining accuracy of computer numerical control machine tools. It is important to accurately predict the thermal field of a motorized...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
4,164 Views
17 Pages

A Corrected Adaptive Balancing Approach of Motorized Spindle Considering Air Gap Unbalance

  • Hongwei Fan,
  • Jin Wang,
  • Sijie Shao,
  • Minqing Jing,
  • Heng Liu and
  • Xuhui Zhang

24 March 2020

Motorized spindles widely used for high-speed precision machine tools are very sensitive to the mass unbalance of rotors; thus, their balancing problem is always a research hotspot. Although many significant studies were done regarding the theory and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,459 Views
23 Pages

Monitoring and Prediction of the Real-Time Transient Thermal Mechanical Behaviors of a Motorized Spindle Tool

  • Tria Mariz Arief,
  • Wei-Zhu Lin,
  • Jui-Pin Hung,
  • Muhamad Aditya Royandi and
  • Yu-Jhang Chen

The spindle is a critical component that significantly influences the performance of machine tools. In motorized spindles, heat generation from both the bearings and built-in motor leads to thermal deformation of structural components, which, in turn...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
2,456 Views
20 Pages

Optimization Design of Step Stress Accelerated Degradation Test for Motorized Spindle Based on Ds-Optimality

  • Hongxun Zhao,
  • Zhaojun Yang,
  • Chuanhai Chen,
  • Hailong Tian,
  • Xiaoxu Li and
  • Shizheng Li

23 April 2021

In the accelerated degradation test (ADT) of motorized spindles, it is necessary to apply a variety of stresses to simulate real working conditions. However, the traditional accelerated test scheme optimization method does not consider the weight of...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,279 Views
17 Pages

18 November 2020

Motorized spindle system is one of the crucial components affecting the machine tools energy performance. Many previous studies have examined its energy optimization problems, however, most such studies focused mainly on parameters optimization to im...

  • Article
  • Open Access
41 Citations
3,607 Views
16 Pages

12 November 2021

High-speed motorized spindle heating will produce thermal error, which is an important factor affecting the machining accuracy of machine tools. The thermal error model of high-speed motorized spindles can compensate for thermal error and improve mac...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
2,089 Views
15 Pages

In the working process of ultra-precision aerostatic motorized spindles, the journal and the rotor must have a certain eccentricity to have a certain bearing capacity and stiffness, which will induce the unbalanced magnetic pull (UMP). The intercoupl...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
2,429 Views
17 Pages

The surface accuracy of a multistep rotary shaft is very important in manufacturing and the assembly process of the high-speed motorized spindle of CNC machine tools, which is closely related to the machined dimensional variation induced by the turni...

  • Article
  • Open Access
14 Citations
2,835 Views
31 Pages

31 December 2023

Given motorized spindles’ extensive periods of prolonged high-velocity operation, they are prone to temperature changes, which leads to the problem of thermal error, leading to diminished precision in machining operations. To address the therma...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
1,787 Views
15 Pages

12 August 2023

The cooling performance of motorized spindles plays an important role in accuracy in high-speed machining. Aiming at improving the cooling performance of traditional motorized spindles, convex columns were built in the cooling channel. Based on field...

  • Article
  • Open Access
20 Citations
3,380 Views
17 Pages

25 July 2020

The air bearing motorized spindle (ABMS) is the key component of the ultra-precision machine tool, which plays an important role in the ultra-precision machining process and directly influences machining accuracy. The influence of unbalanced magnetic...

  • Article
  • Open Access
12 Citations
2,347 Views
19 Pages

2 January 2023

In the working process of the gas bearings, the unbalanced force of the rotor will increase nonlinearly with the increase in the rotating speed, resulting in an increase in the rotor’s vibration amplitude. On the other hand, with the increase i...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
17,660 Views
23 Pages

A Review of Key Technologies for High-Speed Motorized Spindles of CNC Machine Tools

  • Ye Dai,
  • Xueshi Tao,
  • Zhaolong Li,
  • Shiqiang Zhan,
  • Yang Li and
  • Yanhua Gao

17 February 2022

The high-speed and high-precision motorized spindle is the future development trend of the CNC machine tool field, and has become the focus of research in the world. High-speed motorized spindles tend to develop in the direction of high precision, hi...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
1,773 Views
18 Pages

During the service process of a bearingless motorized spindle (BLMS), its parameters change with both time and external conditions, leading to a decrease in the accuracy of the motorized spindle. Therefore, it is difficult to accurately describe the...

  • Review
  • Open Access
1,346 Views
26 Pages

28 November 2025

The electric spindle serves as a critical component in enabling a highly dynamic response, stable torque output, and precise motion control for the main cutting operations of CNC machine tools. The design precision and control performance of its driv...

  • Article
  • Open Access
6 Citations
4,981 Views
17 Pages

Experimental Analysis and Full Prediction Model of a 5-DOF Motorized Spindle

  • Weiyu Zhang,
  • Huangqiu Zhu,
  • Hengkun Yang and
  • Tao Chen

10 January 2017

The cost and power consumption of DC power amplifiers are much greater than that of AC power converters. Compared to a motorized spindle supported with DC magnetic bearings, a motorized spindle supported with AC magnetic bearings is inexpensive and m...

  • Article
  • Open Access
423 Views
24 Pages

31 March 2026

In high-speed spindle motors operating above 10,000 rpm, vibration analysis is essential for detecting mechanical anomalies. However, data scarcity and imbalance, especially for rare fault conditions, limit the performance of deep learning-based anom...

  • Article
  • Open Access
570 Views
14 Pages

An Adaptive Preload Device for High-Speed Motorized Spindles for Teaching and Scientific Research

  • Haipeng Yan,
  • Zongchu Zhang,
  • Guisen Wang,
  • Jinda Zhu and
  • Tingting Sun

3 December 2025

This study focuses on an experimental device for the adaptive adjustment of the preload of high-speed motorized spindles. Firstly, based on Hirano’s criterion, the optimal preload for bearings at different rotational speeds was determined, and...

  • Article
  • Open Access
16 Citations
3,112 Views
19 Pages

Thermal Behavior Modeling Based on BP Neural Network in Keras Framework for Motorized Machine Tool Spindles

  • Aleksandar Kosarac,
  • Robert Cep,
  • Miroslav Trochta,
  • Milos Knezev,
  • Aleksandar Zivkovic,
  • Cvijetin Mladjenovic and
  • Aco Antic

4 November 2022

This paper presents the development and evaluation of neural network models using a small input–output dataset to predict the thermal behavior of a high-speed motorized spindles. Different neural multi-output regression models were developed an...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
1,320 Views
22 Pages

The thermal error of the high-power grinding motorized spindle, caused by heating, seriously affects machining accuracy. In this paper, an ensemble learning algorithm is used to predict the thermal error of a high-precision motorized spindle. The sub...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
2,298 Views
38 Pages

Optimal Design of Three-Stress Accelerated Degradation Test Plan for Motorized Spindle with Poor Prior Information

  • Hongxun Zhao,
  • Zhaojun Yang,
  • Chuanhai Chen,
  • Zhifeng Liu,
  • Wei Luo and
  • Chunlei Hua

21 November 2022

Accurate optimal design for the test plan with limited prior information is impossible since the optimal design method of a three-stress accelerated degradation test plan for a motorized spindle is based on the determination of model parameters. In o...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,805 Views
18 Pages

Grease lubrication is cost-effective and low-maintenance for motorized spindles, but standard steel bearings can fail at high speeds. This study focuses on high-speed full ceramic ball bearings lubricated with grease. The coefficient of friction torq...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1,511 Views
14 Pages

15 July 2023

Considering the influence of performance degradation on a product’s traumatic failure, under the condition that only degradation data are observed and no traumatic failure data are observed, this paper proposes a subdistribution competing risk...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,266 Views
21 Pages

Applying the MIMO BP Neural Network and Cloud-Based Monitoring of Thermal Behavior for High-Speed Motorized Spindle Units

  • Milos Knezev,
  • Robert Cep,
  • Luka Mejic,
  • Branislav Popovic,
  • Aco Antic,
  • Branko Strbac and
  • Aleksandar Zivkovic

15 March 2024

Understanding the temperature–working condition relationship is crucial for optimizing machining processes to ensure dimensional accuracy, surface finish quality, and overall spindle longevity. Monitoring and controlling spindle temperature thr...

  • Review
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,370 Views
18 Pages

20 March 2024

In high-speed motors, there is a huge amount of heat generation from core and winding losses, which may result in thermal failures or motor performance deterioration. In the prevention of heat accumulation, efficient cooling technology is critical fo...

  • Review
  • Open Access
56 Citations
17,694 Views
30 Pages

Anaphase B

  • Jonathan M. Scholey,
  • Gul Civelekoglu-Scholey and
  • Ingrid Brust-Mascher

8 December 2016

Anaphase B spindle elongation is characterized by the sliding apart of overlapping antiparallel interpolar (ip) microtubules (MTs) as the two opposite spindle poles separate, pulling along disjoined sister chromatids, thereby contributing to chromoso...

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  • Review
  • Open Access
12 Citations
6,424 Views
27 Pages

Polar Chromosomes—Challenges of a Risky Path

  • Kruno Vukušić and
  • Iva M. Tolić

3 May 2022

The process of chromosome congression and alignment is at the core of mitotic fidelity. In this review, we discuss distinct spatial routes that the chromosomes take to align during prometaphase, which are characterized by distinct biomolecular requir...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,385 Views
20 Pages

30 November 2024

In the application of an aerostatic motorized spindle, given the different requirements for the optimal gas film thickness of gas bearing under various processing conditions, this paper puts forward the tapered aerostatic bearing as the radial suppor...

  • Review
  • Open Access
11 Citations
9,379 Views
10 Pages

Helical Twist and Rotational Forces in the Mitotic Spindle

  • Iva M. Tolić,
  • Maja Novak and
  • Nenad Pavin

The mitotic spindle segregates chromosomes into two daughter cells during cell division. This process relies on the precise regulation of forces acting on chromosomes as the cell progresses through mitosis. The forces in the spindle are difficult to...

  • Review
  • Open Access
18 Citations
8,901 Views
18 Pages

Emerging Insights into the Function of Kinesin-8 Proteins in Microtubule Length Regulation

  • Sanjay Shrestha,
  • Mark Hazelbaker,
  • Amber L. Yount and
  • Claire E. Walczak

20 December 2018

Proper regulation of microtubules (MTs) is critical for the execution of diverse cellular processes, including mitotic spindle assembly and chromosome segregation. There are a multitude of cellular factors that regulate the dynamicity of MTs and play...

  • Article
  • Open Access
631 Views
13 Pages

5 December 2025

Thermal elongation in high-speed motorized spindles constitutes a major source of machining error in five-axis machine tools, critically impacting machining precision. This study aims to develop and validate a cumulative thermal error compensation mo...

  • Article
  • Open Access
46 Citations
4,952 Views
20 Pages

27 October 2020

Most online tool condition monitoring (TCM) methods easily cause machining interference. To solve this problem, we propose a method based on the analysis of the spindle motor current signal of a machine tool. Firstly, cutting experiments under multi-...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
2,450 Views
20 Pages

Sensorimotor control can be impaired by slacked muscle spindles. This was shown for reflex responses and, recently, also for muscular stability in the sense of Adaptive Force (AF). The slack in muscle spindles was generated by contracting the lengthe...

  • Article
  • Open Access
5 Citations
3,473 Views
14 Pages

11 September 2022

The grinding force is the most sensitive physical measure of reaction loads in the grinding process. To enhance surface quality and assure high efficiency and stability of the grinding process, it is essential to accomplish adaptive control of the gr...

  • Article
  • Open Access
1 Citations
1,381 Views
19 Pages

19 February 2025

In CNC machines, the temperature field analysis of spindle servo permanent magnet motors (SSPMMs) under rated load, overload, and weak magnetic conditions is critical for ensuring stable operation and machining accuracy. This paper proposes a tempera...

  • Review
  • Open Access
43 Citations
15,065 Views
13 Pages

From Muscle to the Myofascial Unit: Current Evidence and Future Perspectives

  • Antonio Stecco,
  • Federico Giordani,
  • Caterina Fede,
  • Carmelo Pirri,
  • Raffaele De Caro and
  • Carla Stecco

24 February 2023

The “motor unit” or the “muscle” has long been considered the quantal element in the control of movement. However, in recent years new research has proved the strong interaction between muscle fibers and intramuscular connecti...

  • Article
  • Open Access
715 Views
16 Pages

5 December 2025

Background/Objectives: Neck muscle vibration alters neural processing, sensorimotor integration, and proprioception in healthy adults. Significant differential changes in the N18 and N24 somatosensory evoked potential (SEP) peak amplitudes, coupled w...

  • Article
  • Open Access
4 Citations
3,411 Views
18 Pages

30 March 2023

Adaptation to external forces relies on a well-functioning proprioceptive system including muscle spindle afferents. Muscle length and tension control in reaction to external forces is most important regarding the Adaptive Force (AF). This study inve...

  • Review
  • Open Access
10 Citations
4,997 Views
13 Pages

Effectiveness of Focal Muscle Vibration in the Recovery of Neuromotor Hypofunction: A Systematic Review

  • Luigi Fattorini,
  • Angelo Rodio,
  • Guido Maria Filippi and
  • Vito Enrico Pettorossi

Adequate physical recovery after trauma, injury, disease, a long period of hypomobility, or simply ageing is a difficult goal because rehabilitation protocols are long-lasting and often cannot ensure complete motor recovery. Therefore, the optimisati...

  • Article
  • Open Access
8 Citations
3,790 Views
11 Pages

26 November 2020

Developmental language disorder (DLD) is frequently associated with other developmental diseases and may lead to a handicap through adolescence or adulthood. The aim of our retrospective study was to characterize DLD subgroups, their etiological fact...

  • Review
  • Open Access
41 Citations
19,926 Views
38 Pages

A Brief History of Research on Mitotic Mechanisms

  • J. Richard McIntosh and
  • Thomas Hays

21 December 2016

This chapter describes in summary form some of the most important research on chromosome segregation, from the discovery and naming of mitosis in the nineteenth century until around 1990. It gives both historical and scientific background for the nin...

  • Article
  • Open Access
3 Citations
3,831 Views
17 Pages

Cells form a bipolar spindle during mitosis to ensure accurate chromosome segregation. Proper spindle architecture is established by a set of kinesin motors and microtubule-associated proteins. In most eukaryotes, kinesin-5 motors are essential for t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
8 Citations
5,721 Views
16 Pages

Quantity and Distribution of Muscle Spindles in Animal and Human Muscles

  • Yunfeng Sun,
  • Caterina Fede,
  • Xiaoxiao Zhao,
  • Alessandra Del Felice,
  • Carmelo Pirri and
  • Carla Stecco

Muscle spindles have unique anatomical characteristics that can be directly affected by the surrounding tissues under physiological and pathological conditions. Understanding their spatial distribution and density in different muscles is imperative t...

  • Review
  • Open Access
695 Views
15 Pages

Chromosome segregration and cell division requires the regulated assembly of the mitotic spindle apparatus. This mitotic spindle is composed of condensed chromosomes attached to a dynamic array of microtubules. The microtubule array is nucleated by...

  • Article
  • Open Access
2 Citations
3,838 Views
18 Pages

7 October 2022

Belt transmission is one of the most common forms of transmission on CNC lathes. To assess the impact of belt performance on monitoring machining conditions using motor current signal analysis, we developed a dynamic model for belt-driven electromech...

  • Article
  • Open Access
23 Citations
4,684 Views
19 Pages

1 March 2021

The aerostatic spindle in the ultra-precision machine tool shows the complex multi-field coupling dynamics behavior under working condition. The numerical investigation helps to better understand the dynamic characteristics of the aerostatic spindle...

  • Article
  • Open Access
726 Views
20 Pages

12 December 2025

Monitoring spindle bearing load is essential for ensuring machining accuracy, reliability, and predictive maintenance in machine tools. This paper presents an approach that combines drive-based cutting force estimation with a finite element method (F...

  • Review
  • Open Access
146 Citations
29,398 Views
56 Pages

Mechanisms of Chromosome Congression during Mitosis

  • Helder Maiato,
  • Ana Margarida Gomes,
  • Filipe Sousa and
  • Marin Barisic

17 February 2017

Chromosome congression during prometaphase culminates with the establishment of a metaphase plate, a hallmark of mitosis in metazoans. Classical views resulting from more than 100 years of research on this topic have attempted to explain chromosome c...

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