ME-402 · INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL/Official Syllabus
INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL (ME-402) - Official Syllabus
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Unit 1
Introduction to instrument systems
- Introduction to instrument systems
- classifications
- functional elements of a measurement system
- standards and calibration
- static performance characteristics
- measurement errors and uncertainties
- analysis
- sequential and random test
- specifications of instrument static characteristics
- data acquisition
- reduction
- data outliner detection
2
Unit 2
Dynamic characteristics of the instruments
- Dynamic characteristics of the instruments
- formulation of system equations
- dynamic response
- compensation
- periodic input
- harmonic signal non harmonic signal
- Fourier transform
- response to the transient input
- response to random signal input
- first and second order system compensation
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Unit 3
Temperature measurements, pressure, velocity and flow measurements
- Temperature measurements
- thermometry based on thermal expansion
- liquid in glass
- bimetallic
- electric resistance- thermometry
- thermocouples
- thermistors
- detectors
- pressure and velocity measurements
- barometer
- manometer
- dead weight tester
- pressure gauges and transducers
- dynamic measurements
- flow measurements
- pressure differential meters
- orifice meter
- venturi meter
- rota-meter
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Unit 4
Strain gauges, motion, force and torque measurements
- strain gauges
- strain and stress measurements
- electrical circuits
- compensations
- motion force and torque measurements
- displacement measurements
- potentiometers
- linear and rotary variable differential transformers
- velocity measurements
- electromagnetic technique
- stroboscope
- load cell
- measurement of torque on rotating shaft
- power estimation from rotating shaft
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Unit 5
Control systems
- Control systems
- open loop and close loop control
- mathematical modeling of dynamic systems – mechanical systems
- electrical systems
- fluid systems
- thermal systems
- transfer function
- impulse response function
- block diagrams of close loop systems
- system modeling using software
Reference Books
- Instrumentation measurement and analysis — Nakra B.C., Chaudhary K.K — Tata McGraw Hill
- Theory and design of mechanical measurements — Richard S, Figiola, Donal E. Beasley — John Wiley
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