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TECHNIQUES
M. TECH. (Turbo Machines) & (Industrial
Process Equipment Design)
COURSE DETAILS
ME 605: EXPERIMENTAL TECHNIQUES
Course Load (per week) and credit:
L T P Credit
03 0 02 04
Instructors: This is shared course between SVNIT and L&T
From SVNIT: Bade M H 2 lectures per week.
L & T: Parmar 1 lecture + 2 Hrs. Practical/week
SYLLABUS
Basic concepts of Measurement
Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data Method of
Least Squares, Uncertainty Analysis.
Response characteristics of Instruments 1st & 2nd
order instrument.
Transducers, Vibration & Noise measurements.
Theory of strain gauges
Advance & Specific measurements Stress & Strain
Measurement by Photo Elastic Bench, Hotwire &
Laser Doppler Anemometry.
Thermal & Transport property measurement, Thermo
gravimetric, Gas Chromatography, Air Pollution &
Nuclear radiation measurement.
SYLLABUS
Impact & Hardness Testing
Fracture Toughness Test
Corrosion & Creep Test
Visual Check
Radiography
Ultrasonic test
Magnetic Particle / Dye Penetrant Test
Other Non Destructive Tests (e.g. Acoustic
Emission Current etc.)
REFERENCE
6. Helfrack, A.D. and Cooper, W.D., Modern
Electronic Instrumentation & Measurement
Techniques, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd., New
Delhi -2001.
7. Experimental Techniques, D. S. Kumar.
8.http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/video.php?courseId=107
2&p=1
9. http://www.nptel.iitm.ac.in/courses/IIT-
MADRAS/Mechanical_Measurements_Metrology/in
dex.php
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in an open, honest and responsible manner.
All students should act with personal integrity,
respect other students dignity, rights and property,
and help create and maintain an environment in
which all can succeed through the fruits of their
efforts. An environment of academic integrity is
requisite to respect for self and others and a civil
community.
INTRODUCTION TO MECHANICAL
MEASUREMENTS
EXPERIEMENT TECHNIQUES
Objective of the experiment dictate the accuracy
required, expense justified and human effort necessary.
Importance of Data collection: Range in which data
required, Parameters to be measured, Number of Data
points to be taken in particular range.
BASIC CONCEPTS
General Classifications of Instruments:
Active and passive instruments
Null-type and deflection-type instruments
Analogue and digital instruments
Indicating instruments and instruments with a
signal output
Smart and non-smart instruments
STATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF
INSTRUMENTS
Precision/Repeatability/Reproducibility
Precision is a term that describes an instruments degree of
freedom from random errors. Alternately, instruments ability to
reproduce a certain reading with a given accuracy.
Accuracy can be improved up to but not beyond the precision of the
instrument by calibration.
The precision of the instrument is usually subject to many complicated
factors and requires special techniques to analysis.
Repeatability describes the closeness of output readings
when the same input is applied repetitively over a short
period of time, with the same measurement conditions,
same instrument and observer, same location and same
conditions of use maintained throughout.
STATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF
INSTRUMENTS
Sensitivity of Measurement
The sensitivity of measurement is
a measure of the change in
instrument output that occurs when
the quantity being measured
changes by a given amount.
STATIC CHARACTERISTICS OF
INSTRUMENTS
Zero drift or bias describes the effect where the
zero reading of an instrument is modified by a change
in ambient conditions.
Sensitivity drift (also known as scale factor drift)
defines the amount by which an instruments
sensitivity of measurement varies as ambient
conditions change.
Hysteresis effects
Dead space