TY - BOOK AU - Beckwith,T.G. AU - Marangoni,Roy D. AU - Lienhard,John H. TI - Mechanical measurements SN - 0201847655 AV - TA165 .B38 2007 U1 - 681.2 22 PY - 2007///] CY - Upper Saddle River, N.J. PB - Pearson/Prentice Hall KW - Engineering instruments KW - Measuring instruments N1 - Includes bibliographical references and index; I; Fundamentals of Mechanical Measurement --; 1; The Process of Measurement: An Overview --; 2; Standards and Dimensional Units of Measurement --; 3; Assessing and Presenting Experimental Data --; 4; The Analog Measurand: Time-Dependent Characteristics --; 5; The Response of Measuring Systems --; 6; Sensors --; 7; Signal Conditioning --; 8; Digital Techniques in Mechanical Measurements --; 9; Readout and Data Processing --; II; Applied Mechanical Measurements --; 10; Determination of Count, Events per Unit Time, and Time Interval --; 11; Displacement and Dimensional Measurement --; 12; Strain and Stress: Measurement and Analysis --; 13; Measurement of Force and Torque --; 14; Measurement of Pressure --; 15; Measurement of Fluid Flow --; 16; Temperature Measurements --; 17; Measurement of Motion --; 18; Acoustical Measurements --; App. A: Standards and Conversion Equations --; App. B: Theoretical Basis for Fourier Analysis --; App. C: Number Systems --; App. D: Some Useful Data --; App. E: Stress and Strain Relationships --; App. F: Pseudorandom Normally Distributed Numbers --; App. G: Statistical Tests of Least-Squares Fits --; Answers to Selected Problems --; Index ER -