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PCC01 Fundamentals of Measurement and Sensors

Teaching Scheme Examination Scheme


Lectures: 2hrs/week Mid-Sem - 20 Marks
Practical: 2hrs/week Assignment - 10
Marks End
SemExam - 70
Marks

Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course, students will demonstrate the ability:
1. To have comprehensive understanding of measuring instruments, transducers, and their applications,
enabling them to make accurate measurements and effectively analyze measurement systems.
2. To be proficient in utilizing various measurement techniques, including Wheatstone and Kelvin bridges,
ohmmeters, and Q-meters, for precise resistance, inductance, and capacitance measurements.
3. Students will be equipped to select, operate, and understand a wide range of displacement measurement
transducers for various engineering applications.
4. To make students proficient in using a wide array of velocity and acceleration measurement instruments.
5. To make students proficient in the application of diverse force and torque measurement methods and
instruments.

Unit 1 (7hrs)
Introduction of measuring Systems: Measuring Instruments: Classification, Absolute and secondary
instruments, indicating instruments, control, balancing and damping, constructional details, characteristics,
Ammeters, voltmeters: (DC/AC) PMMC, MI, Electrodynamometer type, Wattmeter: Electrodynamometer
type, induction type, single phase and three phase wattmeter. Concepts and terminology of transducer, sensor,
Classification of transducers, static and dynamic characteristics, selection criteria, sources of errors.

Unit 2 (7hrs)
Resistance, Inductance & Capacitance Measurement: Wheatstone bridge, design, arrangement of ratio
arms, Kelvin Bridge, Kelvin double bridge, series ohmmeter, shunt ohmmeter, DMM. Maxwell’sbridge,
Hay’sbridge, Schering bridge,Q-meter.

Unit 3 (7 hrs)
Displacement Measurement: Resistive: Potentiometer, Linear and rotary, Inductive: LVDT and Eddy
current type Transducers. Capacitive: Capacitance pickups, Differential capacitive cells. Piezoelectric,
Ultrasonic transducers and Hall effect transducers, Optical transducers.

Unit 4 (7hrs)
Velocity and Acceleration measurement: Moving magnet and moving coil, Electromagnetic tachometer,
Photoelectric tachometer, Toothed rotor variable reluctance tachometer. Magnetic pickups, Encoders,
Photoelectric pickups, stroboscopes and stroboscopic method, Shaft speed measurement.
Eddy current type, piezoelectric type, Seismic Transducer, Accelerometer: Potentiometric type, LVDT
type, Piezo-electrictype.

Unit 5 (5hrs)
Force and torque measurement: Basic methods of force measurement, elastic force traducers, load cells,
shear web, piezoelectric force transducers, vibrating wire force transducers, Strain gauge torque meter,
Inductive torque meter, Magneto-strictive transducers, torsion bar dynamometer.

Textbooks:
 K. Sawhney, “Electrical and Electronic Measurements and Instrumentation”, Dhanpat Rai and Sons,
12th ed., 2005
 B. C. Nakra and K. K. Choudhari, “Instrumentation Measurements and Analysis” by, Tata McGraw Hill
Education, 4th ed.,2016

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