Mechanical Measurements
Mechanical Measurements is a core subject in the Mechanical Engineering curriculum. The course prepares the undergraduate (may skip some advanced topics and analyses) student for understanding and appreciating the practical aspects of Mechanical Engineering. The book will be very useful for post graduate students if they include all the topics covered in the book. On the whole the aim of the book is to present a sound foundation on the basics of measurement science as applied to measurement of quantities that are important to a mechanical engineer. Measurement involves both an art part pertaining to the skills to be developed for performing “good” measurements and a science part that prepares the engineer to innovate new measurement techniques. The role of the text is to prepare the engineering student to do both.
The book contains sixteen chapters and is divided in to five modules.
The first module contains Chapters 1 - 3 that deals with measurement errors and statistical analysis of data, regression analysis and design of experiments.
The second module comprises of Chapters 4 - 6 that deals with the measurement of very important quantities that are central to thermal measurements viz. temperature, systematic errors in temperature measurements and heat flux.
The third module comprises of Chapters 7 – 10 and deals with the measurement of Pressure, Velocity, Volume flow rate and Bulk mean temperature.
The fourth module comprises of Chapters 11 – 14 and deals with the measurement of Thermo-physical properties, Radiation properties of surfaces, Gas concentration, Force/Acceleration, torque and power.
The fifth module consists of Chapters 15 and 16. This module deals with computer assisted data acquisition - data manipulation and Examples from laboratory practice.
Worked examples are presented throughout the book. Exercises for the student are arranged at the end of each module. Useful Tables are provided in Appendix. Glossary, nomenclature and subject index are arranged to help the reader navigate through the book with ease. (jacket)
