570 Pages
250 B/W Illustrations
by
CRC Press
A comprehensive textbook on mechanical measurement, this book covers the material in five modules. Module I deals with the basics of measurements without reference to any particular field and hence is to be dealt with at the beginning. Chapters 4, 6 and 13 deal with basic quantities that interest all engineers and should be included in any course on “Mechanical Measurements”. Parts of other... Read more
Preface; Acknowledgements; Nomenclature 1 About Measurements and Errors in measurement 2 Regression analysis 3 Design of experiments 4 Measurement of Temperature 5 Heat flux and Heat Transfer Coefficient 6 Measurement of Pressure 7 Measurement of Fluid Velocity 8 Volume flow rate 9 Stagnation and Bulk mean temperature 10 Measurement of thermo-physical properties 11 Radiation properties of surfaces 12 Gas concentration 13 Force/Acceleration, torque and power 14 Data Manipulation 15 Examples from laboratory practice; A Exercises; B Bibliographic Notes; C References; D Useful tables; Index
Biography
S.P. Venkateshan, Professor of Mechanical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology Madras.
