Measurement and Instrumentation

Measurement and Instrumentation: Theory and Application, Second Edition, introduces undergraduate engineering students to measurement principles and the range of sensors and instruments used for measuring physical variables. This updated edition provides new coverage of the latest developments in measurement technologies, including smart sensors, intelligent instruments, microsensors, digital recorders, displays, and interfaces, also featuring chapters on data acquisition and signal processing with LabVIEW from Dr. Reza Langari. Written clearly and comprehensively, this text provides students and recently graduated engineers with the knowledge and tools to design and build measurement systems for virtually any engineering application.
- Provides early coverage of measurement system design to facilitate a better framework for understanding the importance of studying measurement and instrumentation
- Covers the latest developments in measurement technologies, including smart sensors, intelligent instruments, microsensors, digital recorders, displays, and interfaces
- Includes significant material on data acquisition and signal processing with LabVIEW
- Extensive coverage of measurement uncertainty aids students' ability to determine the accuracy of instruments and measurement systems

Dr. Morris Retired senior lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He has taught the undergraduate course in measurement and instrumentation for nearly 30 years, as well as undergraduate courses in robot technology, engineering design and laboratory skills, and graduate level courses in robot control, modeling and measurement for quality assurance. He is the author of eight books and more than 130 research papers in the fields of measurement and instrumentation and robot control.Dr. Langari is a professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at Texas A&M University and head of the Department of Engineering Technology and Industrial Distribution. He earned bachelor's, master's and doctoral degrees from the University of California, Berkeley. He has held research positions at NASA Ames Research Center, Rockwell International Science Center, United Technologies Research Center, as well as the U.S. Air Force Research Laboratory. Langari's expertise is in the area of computational intelligence with application to mechatronic systems and industrial automation. He has played a significant role in the development of theoretical foundations of fuzzy logic control and its applications to problems in mechanical engineering. His work on stability of fuzzy control systems is widely recognized as pioneering the use of nonlinear systems analysis techniques to fuzzy logic.

- Fundamentals of Measurement Systems
- Instrument Types and Performance Characteristics
- Measurement Uncertainty
- Statistical Analysis of Measurements Subject to Random Errors
- Calibration of Measuring Sensors and Instruments
- Data Acquisition and Signal Processing
- Variable Conversion
- Measurement Signal Transmission
- Display, Recording, and Presentation of Measurement Data
- Intelligent Devices
- Measurement Reliability and Safety Systems
- Data Acquisition with LabVIEW
- Sensor Technologies
- Temperature Measurement
- Pressure Measurement
- Flow Measurement
- Level Measurement
- Mass, Force, and Torque Measurement
- Translational Motion, Vibration, and Shock Measurement
- Rotational Motion Transducers
- Summary of Other Measurements Appendix 1: Imperial-Metric-SI Conversion TablesAppendix 2: Thévenin's TheoremAppendix 3: Thermocouple TablesAppendix 4: Using mathematical tables