Pearson international edition.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Preface xv Part 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 Part II Applied Mechanical Measurements 10 Measurement of Count, EPUT, Time Interval, and Frequency Measurement of Count, Events per Unit Time, Time Interval, and Frequency 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 Part III Appendices A Standards and Conversion Equations B Theoretical Basis for Fourier Analysis C Number Systems D Some Useful Data E Stress and Strain Relationships E.1 The General Plane Stress Situation E.2 Direction and Magnitudes of Principal Stresses E.3 Variation in Shear Stress with Direction E.4 Shear Stress on Principal Planes E.5 General Stress Equations in Terms of Principal Stresses E.6 Mohr's Circle for Stress E.7 Strain at a Point F Statistical Tests of Least Squares Fits Answers to Selected Problems.