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Applied Measurement Engineering: How to Design Effective Mechanical Measurement Systems
Charles P. Wright

ISBN-10: 0132534770
ISBN-13:  9780132534772

Publisher:  Prentice Hall
Copyright:  1995
Format:  Paper; 432 pp
Published:  09/20/1994
Status: Instock


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Description

ractical and useful guide to becoming more proficient at preparing tests, sequencing data, and verifying results for engineering production and systems.


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.


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.



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