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The document describes the ME283 course on Mechanical Measurement. It is a 5 credit course with 3 hours of lectures and 2 hours of practical per week. Assessment includes an end semester exam worth 70% of theory marks and 30% of continuous evaluation marks, and a practical exam worth 30% and 20% respectively. The course content covers 7 topics including measurement principles, displacement, velocity, acceleration, pressure, temperature, force, torque and power, strain, and miscellaneous measurements. Measurement techniques for variables like flow, viscosity, and fuel properties are discussed over 49 teaching hours with reference to 5 textbooks.

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ME283

The document describes the ME283 course on Mechanical Measurement. It is a 5 credit course with 3 hours of lectures and 2 hours of practical per week. Assessment includes an end semester exam worth 70% of theory marks and 30% of continuous evaluation marks, and a practical exam worth 30% and 20% respectively. The course content covers 7 topics including measurement principles, displacement, velocity, acceleration, pressure, temperature, force, torque and power, strain, and miscellaneous measurements. Measurement techniques for variables like flow, viscosity, and fuel properties are discussed over 49 teaching hours with reference to 5 textbooks.

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ME283: Mechanical Measurement

Teaching Scheme Credits Marks Distribution


Theory Marks Practical Marks Total
L T P C Marks
ESE CE ESE CE
3 0 2 5 70 30 30 20 150

Course Content:
Sr. Teaching
Topics
No. Hrs.

1 Basic Concepts of Measurements: 08

Introduction to measurement and measuring instruments, Methods


of measurement, Modes of measurement, generalized measuring
system and functional elements, instruments and its classifications,
Sensors and Transducer and its classification, Static and dynamic
performance characteristics of measurement devices, sources of
error in measurement, classification and elimination of errors,
uncertainty in measurements.

2 Displacement Velocity/Speed, and Acceleration Measurement: 07

Working principal of Resistive Potentiometer, Linear variable


differential transducers, Electro Magnetic Transducers, Mechanical,
Electrical and Photoelectric Tachometers, Piezoelectric
Accelerometer, Seismic Accelerometer.

3 Pressure Measurement: 07

Pressure standards and methods of pressure measurement;


Manometers; Elastic pressure transducers; Measurement of
Vacuum; Force balance pressure gauges; Electrical pressure
transducers; pressure switches; Calibration of pressure measuring
instruments.

4 Temperature Measurement: 08

Methods of temperature Measurement; Expansion thermometers:


Bi-metallic, Liquid in glass; Filled System thermometers; Electrical
temperature measuring instrument: Thermocouples, RTD,
Thermistors; Pyrometers; Calibration of temperature measuring
instruments.
5 Measurement of Force, Torque, Power: 06

Force measurement: Hydraulic force meter, Pneumatic force meter,


Strain gauge load cell, cantilever beams, proving rings, and
differential transformers.

Measurement of torque and power: Prony brake dynamometer, Rope


brake dynamometer, Hydraulic dynamometer, Eddy current
dynamometer, Torsion bar dynamometer, Servo-controlled
dynamometer.

6 Measurement of strain: 06

Mechanical strain gauges, electrical strain gauges, strain gauge:


materials, gauge factors, theory of strain gauges and method of
measurement, bridge arrangement, temperature compensation.

7 Miscellaneous Measurements: 07

Flow measurement: Rota meter, magnetic, ultrasonic, turbine flow


meter, hot wire anemometer, Laser Doppler Anemometer (LDA),
Pitot-static tube.

Viscosity measurement: Viscometers.

Fuel and fuel gas analysis: Calorific value and its measurements:
Junker and Bomb calorimeters, Flash and fire points, Gas analyzer.

Total Hrs. 49
Reference Books:
1. D.S. Kumar, Mechanical Measurement & Control, 4th Edition, Metropolitan Book
Co, New Delhi, 2006.
2. B.C.Nakra and K.K.Choudhary, Instrumentation measurement and analysis, 3rd
Edition, McGraw Hill Education (India) Private Limited, New Delhi, 2009.
3. A.K.Sawhney and Puneet Sawhney, Mechanical Measurement and Instrumentation &
Control, 12th Edition, Dhanpat Rai & Co, 2009.
4. S. K. Singh, Industrial Instrumentation and Control, 3rd Edition, McGraw Hill
Education (India) Private Limited, New Delhi, 2009.
5. R. K. Rajput, Mechanical Measurements and Instrumentation, 2nd Edition, S K
Kataria & Sons, New Delhi, 2006.
6. Thomas G. Beckwith, Roy D. Marangoni, John H. and Lienhard V, Mechanical
Measurements, 6th Edition, Addison Wesley.

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