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Key Features
- Provides early coverage of measurement system design to facilitate a better framework for understanding the importance of studying measurement and instrumentation
- Covers the latest developments in measurement technologies, including smart sensors, intelligent instruments, microsensors, digital recorders, displays and interfaces
- Includes significant material on data acquisition and signal processing with LabVIEW
- New sections in this updated edition include an expansion of sections on MEMS and electrical safety, new illustrations, including more photos of real devices, and more worked examples and end-of-chapter problems
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About the Book
Measurement and Instrumentation: Theory and Application, Third Edition, introduces undergraduate engineering students to measurement principles and the range of sensors and instruments used for measuring physical variables. Providing the most balanced coverage of measurement theory/technologies and instrumentation, this clearly and comprehensively written text arms students and recently graduated engineers with the knowledge and tools to design and build measurement systems for virtually any engineering application.
Readership
Junior and senior undergraduate engineering students taking measurement and instrumentation courses primarily in mechanical and aerospace engineering departments
Content
1. Fundamentals of Measurement Systems
2. Instrument Types and Performance Characteristics
3. Measurement Uncertainty
4. Statistical Analysis of Measurements Subject to Random Errors
5. Calibration of Measuring Sensors and Instruments
6. Data Acquisition and Signal Processing
7. Variable Conversion
8. Measurement Signal Transmission
9. Display, Recording, and Presentation of Measurement Data
10. Intelligent Devices
11. Measurement Reliability and Safety Systems
12. Data Acquisition with LabVIEW
13. Sensor Technologies
14. Temperature Measurement
15. Pressure Measurement
16. Flow Measurement
17. Level Measurement
18. Mass, Force, and Torque Measurement
19. Translational Motion, Vibration, and Shock Measurement
20. Rotational Motion Transducers
21. Summary of Other Measurements
Appendix
1. Imperial-Metric-SI Conversion Tables
2. Thévenin’s Theorem
3. Thermocouple Tables
4. Using Mathematical Tables
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