Register your product to gain access to bonus material or receive a coupon.
Applied Measurement Engineering: How to Design Effective Mechanical Measurement Systems
- By Charles P. Wright
- Published Sep 20, 1994 by Pearson.
Book
- Sorry, this book is no longer in print.
About
Features
- presents the concept of Knowledge-Based Measurement Systems.
- includes single-page process flow charts for the two most often used/abused sampling models.
- contains design information on the simultaneous sample/hold/A/D conversion process.
- offers a unique section on measurement system operations methods — an operational framework for static, quasi-static, dynamic, and automated measurement systems. Considers the method of independent span verification — the most crucial operational issue.
- explains an entire method of noise level documentation, based on a general transducer model.
- outlines a simple framework explaining the three existing methods of noise level control.
- discusses leadership and management issues — e.g., the Measurements Contract — who owes what to whom in an effective test workplace.
- explains the powerful benefits of using the T-insertion method for piezoelectric transducers.
Description
- Copyright 1995
- Dimensions: 7" x 9-1/4"
- Pages: 432
- Edition: 1st
- Book
- ISBN-10: 0-13-253477-0
- ISBN-13: 978-0-13-253477-2
This book offers a relatively non- mathematical, real-world look at the design and operation of the complex measurement systems used in the experimental mechanics testing business where the over-arching requirement is test data that is valid beyond the question of a doubt, delivered on time, and economically affordable. It tells engineers what they need to know to survive on a daily basis in such test laboratories in today's high pressure, competitive and leveraged, cost driven, process-oriented test world. KEY TOPICS: Explains the 10 crucial technical issues that must be understood and under control at all times if effective and perceptive measurements are to be made on a daily basis in the test laboratory. Also discusses a working philosophy, responsibility and engineering ethcis, and management of the measurements activity. Features, here for the first time, The Measurement Contract, a definition of who owes what to whom when working in a really effective test laboratory. MARKET: For any and all engineers and engineering managers responsible for the timely delivery of demonstrably valid test data in testing laboratories or whose organizations product quality depends on that testing.
Sample Content
Table of Contents
1. Basic Concepts.
2. Measurement System Transfer Functions and Linearity.
3. Frequency Content . . . or . . . Waveshape Reproduction.
4. Nonself Generating Transducers and How They Really Work.
5. Everything You've Ever Wanted to Know about the Wheatstone Bridge.
6. Self Generating Transducers.
7. The Transducer Model and the Problem of Noise.
8. Noise Level Reduction Techniques.
9. Information Conversion Techniques.
10. Frequency Analysis.
11. Sampled Measurement Systems.
12. Measurement System Operational Methods.
13. Data Validation Methodologies.
14. Knowledge-Based Measurement Systems.
15. The Subject of Software.
16. Leadership and Management Issues.
17. The Subjects of Craft, Responsibility and Professionalism.