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MECHANICAL MEASUREMENTS
A basic function of all branches of engineering is design: design of manufactured goods of various kinds, design of machinery to perform the manufacturing operations, design of power sources, design of electrical and electronic apparatus, design of roads, waterways and sanitary systems, design of processes and process equipment, design of materials, and so on. Another function is to provide for proper operation and maintenance of such equipment or systems. Both of these areas of engineering require measurement as a source of. very important and necessary information—information without which the function could not be properly performed. *
The chapters in the book are written with the idea of presenting a reasonably complete cross-section of mechanical-measurement method, with the full realization that the field is broadening at a tremendously accelerating rate. Each and every chapter is a worthy topic for a complete treatise in itself. Thus, the book serves as a "jumping off” place fora more intensive study of specific areas of mechanical measurements. For this reason an extensive bibliography has been included for the benefit of both the student and the practitioner. Other highlights include a set of problems at the end of each chapter, many of which could be experimentally derived, a broad-based emphasis on the applications of the subject such as the measurements of strain, force, torque, pressure, fluid flow, temperature, vibration and
shock, and finally the recognition of the advancements of hardware in mechanical measurement.
The book is specifically directed as a texthook to the undergraduate mechanical engineering student, and, as a reference source, to the practising engineer for assisting him in further
Study so that he is able to obtain an overview of the subject as a whole.
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