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Measurement and Instrumentation: Theory and Application, Second Edition, introduces undergraduate engineering students to measurement principles and the range of sensors and instruments used for measuring physical variables.

This updated edition provides new coverage of the latest developments in measurement technologies, including smart sensors, intelligent instruments, microsensors, digital recorders, displays, and interfaces, also featuring chapters on data acquisition and signal processing with LabVIEW from Dr. Reza Langari.

Written clearly and comprehensively, this text provides students and recently graduated engineers with the knowledge and tools to design and build measurement systems for virtually any engineering application.

Provides early coverage of measurement system design to facilitate a better framework for understanding the importance of studying measurement and instrumentation
Covers the latest developments in measurement technologies, including smart sensors, intelligent instruments, microsensors, digital recorders, displays, and interfaces
Includes significant material on data acquisition and signal processing with LabVIEW
Extensive coverage of measurement uncertainty aids students´ ability to determine the accuracy of instruments and measurement systems

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Fundamentals of Measurement Systems
Instrument Types and Performance Characteristics
Measurement Uncertainty
Statistical Analysis of Measurements Subject to Random Errors
Calibration of Measuring Sensors and Instruments
Data Acquisition and Signal Processing
Variable Conversion
Measurement Signal Transmission
Display, Recording, and Presentation of Measurement Data
Intelligent Devices
Measurement Reliability and Safety Systems
Data Acquisition with LabVIEW
Sensor Technologies
Temperature Measurement
Pressure Measurement
Flow Measurement
Level Measurement
Mass, Force, and Torque Measurement
Translational Motion, Vibration, and Shock Measurement
Rotational Motion Transducers
Summary of Other Measurements
Appendix 1: Imperial-Metric-SI Conversion Tables Appendix 2: Thévenin´s Theorem Appendix 3: Thermocouple Tables Appendix 4: Using mathematical tables

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Morris, Alan S.
Dr. Morris Retired senior lecturer in the Department of Automatic Control & Systems Engineering at the University of Sheffield. He has taught the undergraduate course in measurement and instrumentation for nearly 30 years, as well as undergraduate courses in robot technology, engineering design and laboratory skills, and graduate level courses in robot control, modeling and measurement for quality assurance. He is the author of eight books and more than 130 research papers in the fields of measurement and instrumentation and robot control.

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