<p style="MARGIN: 0px">Preface xv</p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Part I Fundamentals of Mechanical Measurement </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> 1 The Process of Measurement: An Overview </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> 2 Standards and Dimensional Units of Measurement <br> 3 Assessing and Presenting Experimental Data <br> 4 The Analog Measurand: Time-Dependent Characteristics <br> 5 The Response of Measuring Systems <br> 6 Sensors <br> 7 Signal Conditioning <br> 8 Digital Techniques in Mechanical Measurements <br> 9 Readout and Data Processing <br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Part II Applied Mechanical Measurements </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> 10 Measurement of Count, EPUT, Time Interval, and Frequency Measurement of Count, Events per Unit Time, Time Interval, and Frequency <br> 11 Displacement and Dimensional Measurement <br> 12 Strain and Stress: Measurement and Analysis <br> 13 Measurement of Force and Torque <br> 14 Measurement of Pressure <br> 15 Measurement of Fluid Flow <br> 16 Temperature Measurements <br> 17 Measurement of Motion <br> 18 Acoustical Measurements <br></p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px">Part III Appendices </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"><br> A Standards and Conversion Equations </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> B Theoretical Basis for Fourier Analysis </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> C Number Systems </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> D Some Useful Data </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> E Stress and Strain Relationships <br> E.1 The General Plane Stress Situation <br> E.2 Direction and Magnitudes of Principal Stresses <br> E.3 Variation in Shear Stress with Direction <br> E.4 Shear Stress on Principal Planes <br> E.5 General Stress Equations in Terms of Principal Stresses <br> E.6 Mohr’s Circle for Stress <br> E.7 Strain at a Point </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> F Statistical Tests of Least Squares Fits </p> <p style="MARGIN: 0px"> Answers to Selected Problems </p>