FACULTY OF ENGINEERING, TECHNOLOGY & BUILT ENVIRONMENT FINAL EXAMINATION Student ID (in Figures) [ | [eee Ee] Student ID (in Words) Subject Code & Name: BM312 Engineering Experimentation and Measurement Semester May ~ August 2013 Lecturer Mr. Fahri Heltha Duration 13 Hours INSTRUCTIONS TO CANDIDATES. ‘SIX (6) questions set. Attempt any FIVE (5) questions. Total 100 marks. ‘This question paper consists of SIX (6) pages, excluding the cover page, Answers to the questions are to be written in the answer booklet. Candidates are not allowed to bring into the Examination Hall textbooks, leeture notes, files or any materials except writing equipment and scientific calculator. Electronic dictionaries are strictly prohibited. ‘This examination paper must be submitted along with all used and/or unused rough papers and/or graph papers (if any). Candidates are NOT allowed to take any examination materials out of the examination hall. Warning: The University Examination Board of UCSI regards cheating as a most serious offence and will not hesitate to mete out severe punitive actions appropriate with the offence committed, and in accordance with the clauses stipulated in the Students’ Policies, up to and including expulsion from UCSI.1(a) ‘The calibration is a static characteristic of an element found experimentally by measuring corresponding values of the input J, the output O, and the environmental inputs /,, and J,, when /is either at constant value or changing slowly. Propose four (4) experiment conditions of the calibration should be performed. (5 marks) (©) Evaluate the characteristics of atypical thermistor shown in Figure QU. (5 marks) 12 27% rd € g 5 i 0.95 k2 23% re © 20 40 60 8 100 120 140 160 “Temperature (°C) Figure QIb (©) Error reduetion techniques for measurement systems use compensation methods for non-linear and environmental effects in steady state. With the aid of block diagrams where it is necessary, recommend a solution for the following situation: A sensor with a known interfering environmental input is used in a measurement system. The configuration of the measurement system makes isolation of the environmental input impossible. (5 marks) (@ The most common sources of external interference experienced by measurement systems are due to insufficient shielding and poor grounding. Capacitive or electrostatic coupling is one of the coupling mechanisms between a measurement circuit and external sources. Beside this, suggest one possible external interference that may affect measurement circuits, by including a neat sketch. (5 marks) Pinal May - August 2013, Page Jof 6 EMSI2 Eng. Experimentation and Measurement2a) b) A thermocouple is made up of two different metals, when joined together, creates a difference in electrical potential across the junction called the contact potential Investigate the values of Ky K, N(), @ and K for a typical copper-constantan thermocouple modeled in Figure Q2a. Associate the model with the generalised model equation: O= (K+ KidyJI+N(D + a+Kili (6 marks) Ty°C Reference ‘temperature nS 7 a 4 1 ems, + 52.17 Measured | 7 TF 70s Ew temperature! YT Lt {) [aoe 4 LL} 3319 102( 92+ [7] 2071 x 104¢ 3- Fo Lares oct Figure Qa A liquid level sensor has an input range of 0 to 15 om, Use the calibration results of the sensor given in Table Q2b to assess its: (maximum hysteresis, (8 marks) Gi) span, (3 marks) (ii) maximum hysteresis as a percentage of full scale deflection (f's.d). (3 marks) Table Q2b lever om OY ta] 3] 457 Oo] 7a] eo] Os] 120] aa te] [Quiput votts h iereasing_| 0.00] 0.36] 142] 40] 3.43] 425] Soi] 650] 7.77] 885) 10.50) [Output volts h_decreasing | 0.15| 1.25] 2.32] 3.55| 4.43] 5.75] 6.78] 7.80) 8.87] 9.65|10.50] Final May ~ August 2013 Page 20f 6 EM3I2 Eng. Ksperimentation amd Measurement