Introduction to Engineering Experimentation

Anthony J. Wheeler received a Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering from Stanford University in 1971. Dr. Wheeler is a licensed Professional Engineer in the State of California. He is currently Emeritus Professor of Engineering at San Francisco State University where he taught courses in Fluid Mechanics and Thermodynamics, and lectures and laboratories in Experimental Methods. His development activities in laboratories in experimentation were the precursors to the present textbook.  Professor Ahmad R. Ganji received his Ph.D. from the University of California, Berkeley in 1979. He is a professional engineer in the State of California. He has served as a faculty member at San Francisco State University since 1987, teaching courses in the areas of thermal-fluids, experimentation, and air pollution, and publishing over 40 works. Dr. Ganji has been the director of Industrial Assessment Center–a US DOE sponsored project since 1992. In this capacity he has managed hundreds of energy assessments of manufacturing facilities. As a consultant in energy efficiency projects, he has directed and managed numerous measurement and verification (M&V) projects that involve the formulation of detailed measurement protocols based on national and international standards.

• CHAPTER 1 Introduction CHAPTER 2 General Characteristics of Measurement Systems CHAPTER 3 Measurement Systems with Electrical Signals CHAPTER 4 Computerized Data-Acquisition Systems CHAPTER 5 Discrete Sampling and Analysis of Time-Varying Signals CHAPTER 6 Statistical Analysis of Experimental Data CHAPTER 7 Experimental Uncertainty Analysis CHAPTER 8 Measurement of Solid-Mechanical Quantities CHAPTER 9 Measuring Pressure, Temperature, and Humidity CHAPTER 10 Measuring Fluid Flow Rate, Fluid Velocity, Fluid Level, and Combustion Pollutants CHAPTER 11 Dynamic Behavior of Measurement Systems CHAPTER 12 Guidelines for Planning and Documenting Experiments Answers to Selected Problems APPENDIX A Computational Methods for Chapter 5 APPENDIX B Selected Properties of Substances Glossary Index