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ME 312 Measurement and Instrumentation: Instructor: Dr. Abbas Hussain

This document provides information about the ME 312 Measurement and Instrumentation course taught by Dr. Abbas Hussain. The course will cover topics such as resistance, capacitance, pressure, temperature, and force measurement. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, exams, and a final exam. The course aims to teach basic concepts in measurement including calibration, accuracy, precision, sensitivity, hysteresis, resolution, and linearity.

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ME 312 Measurement and Instrumentation: Instructor: Dr. Abbas Hussain

This document provides information about the ME 312 Measurement and Instrumentation course taught by Dr. Abbas Hussain. The course will cover topics such as resistance, capacitance, pressure, temperature, and force measurement. Students will be evaluated based on quizzes, assignments, exams, and a final exam. The course aims to teach basic concepts in measurement including calibration, accuracy, precision, sensitivity, hysteresis, resolution, and linearity.

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ME 312

Measurement and
Instrumentation

Instructor: Dr. Abbas Hussain


General Introduction
ME 312
SEMESTER- V (ME) SEC-B FALL SEMESTER 2019

• Lecturer: Dr. Abbas Hussain ([email protected])

• Lecture Time: Tuesday 12:35 – 13:25 A015


Friday 8:40 – 9:30 A015

• Office hours: Wednesday (Make an appointment in advance!)

• Text Book:
Experimental Methods for Engineers , J P Holman, 8th edition
Electronic Instrumentation and Measurements, David A.Bell, 3rd edition
Evaluation Methods: Quizzes, assignments, two sessional exams, and
one final exam.
 
Quiz 10%
Assignment 10%
Tests 30%
Final 50%
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This course aims to cover following topics:

1. Measurement of Resistance, Voltmeter, Ammeter, and Ohm Meter


2. Capacitance, inductance measurement, Power and Energy Meters
3. Pressure Measurement
4. Flow Measurement
5. Temperature Measurement
6. Force Measurement
7. Strain Gauge
8. Data Acquisition and Processing
9. Analysis of Experimental Data
There is no such thing as an easy experiment

• Specify the physical variables to be measured

• Must have a knowledge of the governing principles of a broad range of


instruments.

• Must have a combination of keen insight into the physical principles of the
processes being investigated and a knowledge of the limitations of the
data.
Basic Concepts
Dimension, Unit, and Standard
Dimension
• It is a measure of a physical variable (without numerical values)
Unit
• It  is a way to assign a number or measurement to that dimension

length is a dimension, but it is measured in units of feet (ft) or meters (m)

Dimension are classified into two types

• Primary dimension
• Secondary dimension
• There are seven primary dimensions. Primary (sometimes
called basic) dimensions are defined as independent or fundamental
dimensions, from which other dimensions can be obtained

• The primary dimensions are: mass, length, time, temperature, electric


current, amount of light, and amount of matter

• The first four of these are required for most of the mechanical and
thermal science analyses

• In order to assign numbers to these primary dimensions, primary


units must be assigned
• There are three primary unit systems in use today:

International System of Units (SI units, simply called metric units)


English Engineering System of Units (commonly called English units)
British Gravitational System of Units (BG)

• Adopted by the 11th General Conference on Weights and Measures in


1960
General Terms
Calibration
• Any measuring system must be provable, i.e., it must prove its ability to
measure reliably.

• When the system is prepared to measure quantities, known values of the


input quantities are feel to the system and the corresponding outputs are
measured. A graph relating the output with input is plotted and is known as
‘Calibration Graph’.

• The procedure involves comparison of a particular instrument with either:


o A primary standard
o Secondary standard with a higher accuracy than the instrument to be
calibrated
o A known input source
Accuracy
• It is the closeness with which the readings of an instrument approach
the true values of the quantities measured.

Precision
• The precision of an instrument indicates its ability to reproduce a certain
reading with a given accuracy
Sensitivity
• It is the ratio between the change in the output of an instrument to the
corresponding change in the measured variable

• It can also be called as the transfer function of a process

Hysteresis
• It is the difference between the indications of a measuring instrument when
the same value of the measured quantity is reached by increasing or by
decreasing that quantity

• The reason is the appearance of stresses inside the instrument material due
to the change of its original shape between the zero reading and the full
scale reading
Resolution
• It is the smallest difference in a variable to which the instrument will
respond

Linearity
• It can be defined as a measure of the proportionality between the actual
values of a variable being measured to the output of the instrument over its
operating range

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