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Taking Measure

Just a Standard Blog

Bala Muralikrishnan

Bala Muralikrishnan is a mechanical engineer in the Sensor Science Division at NIST. He has been involved in modeling errors in dimensional measurement systems for the past 15 years and has championed the idea of developing documentary standards based on rigorous error model-based sensitivity analysis. He has a Ph.D. in mechanical engineering from the University of North Carolina at Charlotte.

Bala Muralikrishnan adjusts a retroreflector on a laser tracker.

Journeying From Laboratory Research to Documentary Standards

March 24, 2020

Bala Muralikrishnan

“Wow, that’s cool, but the meter was defined a long time ago, so what is really there for you to do?” This is the response I get from people when I tell them that I work in the length group at the

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