Course Name: Instrumentations
Course No.: ECE_1115061
Professor: Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad
Taught Semesters: Fall (2018, 2016, 2013, 2003)
Course Name: Instrumentations
Course No.: ECE_1115061
Professor: Prof. Hamid D. Taghirad
Taught Semesters: Fall (2018, 2016, 2013, 2003)
The tentative course contents are as following:
Time: | Teaching Contents |
Week 1 | Introduction: Application of Instrumentation systems, measurement error and accuracy, sensors for different measurements. |
Week 2 | Introduction: Sensors for different measurements. |
Week 3 | Conditioning circuits: Active and passive conditioning circuits, for bias compensation, amplifier and gain, filters, … |
Week 4 | Force, torque and pressure: Introduction to strain and stress, strain gauges, conditioning circuits. |
Week 5 | Force, torque and pressure: Different force and torque sensors. load cells, link and beam type load cells, ring type, torsion torque meters. |
Week 6 | Force, torque and pressure: 2 axis force-torque measurement, 3 and 6 axis force-torque measurement, pressure transducers, vacuum transducers. |
Week 7 | Position Measurements: Definitions, Kinematics relations, potentiometers, resistive, capacitive, magnetic type transducers |
Week 8 | Position and Velocity: Incremental encoders, quadrature counter, linear and angular velocity measurements, Seismic measurements. |
Week 9 | Midterm |
Week 10 | Temperature: Definitions and methods of measurements, resistive thermometers, RTD’s, Thermistors, Methods of Calibrations. |
Week 11 | Temperature Thermocouples, thermoelectric properties, thermelectric materials, Thermocouple types. |
Week 12 | Temperature: Thermocouple industrial types, Pyrometers, photonic thermometers, other industrial types of thermometers. |
Week 13 | Fluid Flow: Definitions, laminar and turbulant flow. velocity profiles in the pipes, Pitot tubes, calibration methods. |
Week 14 | Fluid Flow: compressible flow measurements, hot wire and hot film anymometers, Rotameters, flow meters in open channels. |
Week 15 | Fluid Flow: Turbine flowmeters, Venturi, nozzle and orifice flow meters Sluice and Wier gates, capillary tubes, Laser-doppler anymometers. |
1 | Fundamentals of measurements in instrumentations, Hamid D. Taghirad and S. Ali Salamati, K. N. Toosi University of Technology publications, 2nd Ed., 2016.. |
2 | Instrumentation for engineering measurements, J.W. Dally, W.F. Riley and K.G. McConnell, Prentice Hall, TA 165 D34, 1983. |
3 | Process Control Instrumentation Technology, Curtis D. Johnson, Prentice Hall, TS 156.8 J63, 2000 |
4 | Principles of measurements and instrumentations, A.S. Morris, Prentice Hall, TS 156.8 M638, 1988. |
5 | Industrial Control Handbook, E.A. Parr, Industrial Press, 3rd Ed., TS 156.8 P24, 1998. |
6 | Electronic instrumentations and measurements, L.D. Jones and A. Foster, Prentice Hall, TK 7878.4 J66, 1991. |