Introduction To Measurements And Instrumentation

The fourth edition of this highly readable and well-received book presents the subject of measurement and instrumentation systems as an integrated and coherent text suitable for a one-semester course for undergraduate students of Instrumentation Engineering, as well as for instrumentation course/paper for Electrical/Electronics disciplines.

This book is recommended in North Eastern Hill University for B.Tech. (Electronics and Communication Engineering), Shillong, Supreme Knowledge Foundation Group, West Bengal, West Bengal State Council of Technical Education, West Bengal University of Technology for B.Tech.

Modern scientific world requires an increasing number of complex measurements and instruments. The subject matter of this well-planned text is designed to ensure that the students gain a thorough understanding of the concepts and principles of measurement of physical quantities and the related transducers and instruments. This edition retains all the features of its previous editions viz. plenty of worked-out examples, review questions culled from examination papers of various universities for practice and the solutions to numerical problems and other additional information in appendices.

NEW TO THIS EDITION

Besides the inclusion of a new chapter on Hazardous Areas and Instrumentation(Chapter 15), various new sections have been added and existing sections modified in the following chapters:

Chapter 3 Linearisation and Spline interpolation
Chapter 5 Classifications of transducers, Hall effect, Piezoresistivity, Surface acoustic waves, Optical effects (This chapter has been thoroughly modified)
Chapter 6 Proximitys sensors
Chapter 8 Hall effect and Saw transducers
Chapter 9 Proving ring, Prony brake, Industrial weighing systems, Tachometers
Chapter 10 ITS-90, SAW thermometer
Chapter 12 Glass gauge, Level switches, Zero suppression and Zero elevation, Level switches
Chapter 13 The section on ISFET has been modified substantially

Foreword

Preface Preface to the First Edition

List of Abbreviations

1. INTRODUCTION

2. STATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF INSTRUMENTS

3. ESTIMATION OF STATIC ERRORS AND RELIABILITY

4. DYNAMIC CHARACTERISTICS OF INSTRUMENTS

5. TRANSDUCERS

6. DISPLACEMENT MEASUREMENT

7. STRAIN MEASUREMENT

8. PRESSURE MEASUREMENT

9. ACCELERATION, FORCE AND TORQUE MEASUREMENT

10. TEMPERATURE MEASUREMENT

11. FLOW MEASUREMENT

12. LEVEL MEASUREMENT

13. MISCELLANEOUS MEASUREMENTS

14. ANALYTICAL INSTRUMENTATION

15. HAZARDOUS AREAS AND INSTRUMENTATION

16. SIGNAL CONDITIONING

17. DISPLAY DEVICES AND RECORDING SYSTEMS

Appendix A: Variance of Combinations

Appendix B: Linear Time-invariant Systems

Appendix C: Laplace Transform

Appendix D: Statistical Tables

Appendix E: Psychrometric Table

Appendix F: Miscellaneous Data

Appendix G: Solutions to Numerical Problems

Index