ISBN : 9782924651247
Year of publication : 2017
Nombre de pages : 401
Langue : Anglais#French</trp-gettext#!trpEnglish#
Mechanical engineering is one of the branches of engineering that offers an impressively wide range of applications. Many of them require the control of parameters or mechanisms based on the measurement and analysis of various physical quantities. From the factory to the home environment, from the airplane to the video game controller, from the magnetic resonance imaging device to the baby's ear thermometer, the problems of measurement, analysis and control are omnipresent in our lives.The aim of this book is to present the basic elements used to implement experimental techniques in engineering, particularly in the fields of mechanical and industrial engineering. It covers the central themes of measurement: sensor physics, especially active sensors, static and dynamic calibration processes, basic electronics, uncertainty analysis, data acquisition and, finally, data processing in the time and frequency domains. The book covers the principles used to measure physical quantities such as temperature, pressure, flow, forces and deformations, position and vibrations. It also presents the main mathematical techniques used to process and analyze sensor signals.
Jean Lemay, Eng. and Ph.D., is a full professor in the Mechanical Engineering Department at Université Laval. Following research internships in the field of turbulence at CEAT in Poitiers, France, and at Cambridge University, UK, he obtained his Ph.D. in Mechanical Engineering in 1989 (Université Laval). He previously obtained his M.Sc. in Mechanical Engineering (1986, Université Laval) and B.Sc.A. in Mechanical Engineering (1983, Université Laval). He specializes in fluid dynamics, turbulence, renewable energies, aerodynamics, thermodynamics and instrumentation. A recognized experimenter, he has authored or co-authored nearly 200 scientific and technical publications, including 10 patent applications. In 28 years of teaching in the mechanical engineering department at Université Laval, he has made a major contribution to the creation of a pole of excellence in experimental methodology, including measurement techniques, mechatronics, data acquisition and processing. He has designed several courses in these fields and developed numerous experimental set-ups for teaching purposes. He has received two Star Professor awards (1999 and 2012) from the Faculty of Science and Engineering, and three Inventor Recognition Awards (2012, 2013 and 2016) from Université Laval.
