Table of Contents:

Preface
Acknowledge
Nomenclature
Contents

1. Measurements, Error Analysis and Design of Experiments
• Measurements and Errors in measurement • Regression analysis
• Design of experiments
Exercise I

2. Measurements of Temperature, Heat Flux and Heat Transfer Coefficient
• Measurements of Temperature
• Systematic error in temperature measurement
• Heat flux and heat transfer coefficient
Exercise II

3. Measurement of Pressure, Fluid velocity, Volume flow rate, stagnation and Bulk mean temperature
• Measurement of Pressure
• Measurement of Fluid velocity
• Volume flow rate
• Stagnation and Bulk mean temperature
Excercise III

4. Termo-physical properties, Radiation properties of surface, Gas Concentration, force/Acceleration, torque and power
•Measurement of thermo-physical properties
• Radiation properties of surfaces
• Gas concentration
• Force/acceleration, torque and power
• Data Manipulation
Exercise IV

5. Data Manipulation and Examples from laboratory practice
• Data Manipulation
• Examples from laboratory practice
Excercise V

Bibliographic Notes and References
Useful Tables
Index

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.