The measurement, instrumentation, and sensors handbook / editor in chief John G. Webster.

Colección de artículos temáticos.

La obra está organizada en catorce partes: I) Measurement characteristics; II) Spatial variables measurement; III) Time and frequency measurement; IV) Mechanical variables measurement-Solid; V) Mechanical variables measurement-Fluid; VI) Mechanical variables measurement-Thermal; VII) Electromagnetic variables measurement; VIII) Optical variables measurement; IX) Radiation measurement; X) Chemical variables measurement; XI) Biomedical variables measurement; XII) Signal processing; XIII) Displays; XIV) Control.

Índice alfabético en páginas posliminares.

Characteristics of instrumentation / R. John Hansman, Jr.

Operational modes of instrumentation / Richar S. Figliola.

Static and dynamic characteristics of instrumentation / Peter H. Sydenham.

Measurement accuracy / Ronald H. Dieck.

Measurement standards / DeWayne B. Sharp.

Displacement measurement, linear and angular : Resistive displacement sensors / Keith Antonelli, James Ko, and Shyan Ku. -- Inductive displacement sensors / Halit Eren. -- Capacitive sensors-displacement / Halit Eren and Wei Ling Kong. -- Piezoelectric transducers and sensors / Ahmad Safari, Victor F. Janas ; Amit Bandyopadhayay, and Andrei Kholkine. -- Laser interferometer displacement sensors / Bernhard Günther Zagar. -- Bore gaging displacement sensors / Viktor P. Astakhov. -- Time-of-flight ultrasonic displacement sensors / Teklic Ole Pedersen and Nils Karlsonn. -- Optical encoder displacement sensors / J. R. René Mayer. -- Magnetic displacement sensors / David S. Nyce. -- Synchro/Resolver displacement sensors / Robert M. Hyatt, Jr and David Dayton. -- Optical fiber displacement sensors / Richard O. Claus, Vikram Bhatia, and Anbo Wang. -- Optical beam deflection sensing / Grover C. Wetsel.

Thickness measurement / John C. Brasunas, G. Mark Cushman, and Brokk Lakew.

Proximity sensing for robotics / R. E. Saad, A. Bonen, K. C. Smith, and B. Benhabib.

Distance / W. John Ballantyne.

Position, locations, altitude measurement : Altitude measurement / Dimitris Manolakis. -- Attitude measurement / Mark A. Stedham, Partha B. Banerjee, Seiji Nishfuji, and Shogo Tanaka. -- Inertial navigation / Halit Eren and C. C. Fung. --Satellite navigation and radiolocation / Halit Eren and C. C. Fung. -- Occupancy detection / Jacob Fraden.

Level measurement / Detlef Brumbi.

Area measurement / Charles B. Coulbourn and Wolfgang P. Buerner.

Volume measurement / René G. Aarnink and Hessel Wijskstra.

Angle measurement / Robert J. Sandberg.

Tilt measurement / Adam Chrzanowski and James M. Secord.

Velocity measurement / Charles P. Pinney and William E. Baker.

Acceleration, vibration, and shock measurement / Halit Eren.

Time measurement / Michael A. Lombardi.

Frequency measurement / Michael A. Lombardi.

Mass and weight measurement / Mark Fritz and Emil Hazarian.

Density measurement / Halit Eren.

Strain measurement / Christopher S. Lynch.

Force measurement / Christopher S. Lynch.

Toruqe and power measurement / Ivan J. Garshelis.

Tactile sensing / R. E. Saad, A. Bonen, K. C. Smith, and B. Benhabib.

Preassure and sound measurement : Pressure measurement / Kevin H. -L. Chou. --Vacuum measurement / Ron Goehner, Emil Dubretsky, Howard M. Brady, and William H. Bayles, Jr. -- Ultrasound measurement / Peder C. Pedersen.

Acoustic measurement / Per Rasmussen.

Flow measurement : Differential preassure flowmeters / Richard Thorn. -- Variable area flowmeters / Adrian Melling, Herbert Köchner, and Reinhard Haak. -- Positive displacement flowmeters / Zaki D. Husain and Donald J. Wass. -- Turbine and vane flowmeters / David Wadlow. -- Impeller flowmeters / Harold M. Miller. -- Electromagnetic flowmeters / Halit Eren. -- Ultrasonic flowmeters / Hans-Peter Vaterlaus, Thomas Hossle, Paolo Giordano, and Christophe Bruttin. -- Vortex shedding flowmeters / Wade M. Mattar and James H. Vignos. -- Thermal mass flow sensors / Nam-Trung Nguyen. -- Coriolis effect mass flowmeters / Jesse Yoder. -- Drag force flowmeters / Rekha Philip-Chandy, Roger Morgan, Patricia J. Scully.

Point velocity measurement : Pitot probe anemometry / John A. Kleppe. -- Thermal anemometry / John G. Olin. -- Laser anemometry / Rajan K. Menon.

Viscosity measurement / G. E. Leblanc, R. A. Secco, M. Kostic.

Surface tension measurement / David B. Thiessen, Kin F. Man.

Temperature measurement : Bimaterials thermometers / Robert J. Stephenson, Armelle M. Moulin, and Mark E. Welland. -- Resistive thermometers / Jim Burns. -- Thermistor thermometers / Meyer Sapoff. --Thermocouple thermometers / R. P. Reed. -- Semiconductor junction thermometers / Randy Frank. -- Infrared thermometers / Jacob Fraden. -- Liquid-in-glass thermometers / J. V. Nicholas. -- Manometric thermometers / Franco Pavese. -- Temperature indicators / Jan Stasiek, Tolestyn Madaj, Jaroslaw MIkielewicz. -- Fiber-optic thermometers / Brian Culshaw.

Thermal conductivity measurement / William A. Wakeham and Marc J. Assael.

Heat flux / Thomas E. Diller.

Thermal imaging / Herbert M. Runciman.

Calorimetry measurement / Sander van Herwaarden.

Voltage measurement : Meter voltage measurement / Alessandro Ferrero. -- Oscilloscope voltage measurement / Jerry Murphy. -- Inductive capacitive voltage measurement / Cipriano Bartoletti, Luca Podestà, and Giancarlo Sacerdoti.

Current measurement / Douglas P. McNutt.

Power measurement / Pasquale Arpaia, Francesco Avallone, Aldo Baccigalupi, Claudio De Capua, Carmine Landi.

Power factor measurement / Michael Z. Lowenstein.

Phase measurement / Peter O'Shea.

Energy measurement / Arnaldo Brandolini and Alessandro Gandelli.

Electrical conductivity and resistivity / Michael B. Heaney.

Charge measurement / Saps Buchman, John Mester, and T. J. Sumner.

Capacitance and capacitance measurements / Halit Eren and James Goh.

Permittivity measurement / Devendra K. Misra.

Electric field strength / David A. Hill and Motohisa Kanda.

Magnetic field measurement / Steven A. Macintyre.

Permeability and hysteresis measurement / Jeff P. Anderson and Richard J. Blotzer.

Inductance measurement / Michał Szyper.

Immittance measurement / Achim Dreher.

Q Factor measurement / Albert D. Helfrick.

Distortion measurement / Michael F. Toner and Gordon W. Roberts.

Noise measurement / W. Marshall Leach, Jr.

Microwave measurement / A. Dehé, K. Beilenhoff, K. Fricke, H. Klingbeil, V. Krozer, H. L. Hartnagel.

Photometry and radiometry : Photoductive sensors / Fritz Schuermeyer and Thad Pickenpaugh. -- Photojunction sensors / Michael R. Squillante and Kanai S. Shah. -- Charge-coupled devices / J. A. Nousek, M. W. Bautz, B. E. Burke, J. A. Gregory, R. E. Griffiths, R. L. Kraft, H. L. Kwok, D. h. Lumb.

Densitometry measurement / Joseph H. Altman.

Colorimetry / Robert T. Marcus.

Optical loss / Halit Eren.

Polarization measurement / Soe-Mie F. Nee.

Refractive index measurement / G. H. Meeten.

Turbidity measurement / Daniel Harrison and Michael Fisch.

Laser output measurement / Haiyin Sun.

Vision and image sensors / Stanley S. Ipson and Chima Okereke.

Radioactivity measurement / Bert M. Coursey.

Radioactivity measurement / Larry A. Franks, Ralph B. James, and Larry S. Darken.

Charged particle measurement / John C. Armitage, Madhu S. Dixit, Jacques Dubeau, Hans Mes, and F. Gerald Oakham.

Neutron measurement / Steven M. Grimes.

Dosimetry measurement / Brian L. Justus, Mark A. Miller, and Alan L. Huston.

Composition measurement : Electrochemical composition measurement / Michael J. Schöning, Olaf Glück, and Marion Thust. -- Thermal composition measurement / Mushtaq Ali, Behrooz Pahlavanpour, and Maria Eklund. -- Kinetic methods / E. E. Uzgiris and J. Y. Gui. -- Chromatography composition measurement / Behrooz Pahlavanpour, Musthaq Ali, and C. K. Laird.

pH Measurement / Norman F. Sheppard, Jr. and Anthony Guiseppi-Elie.

Humidity and moisture measurement / Gert J. w. Vischer.

Environmental measurement : Meteorological measurement / John D. Garrison and Stephen B. W. Roeder. -- Air pollution measurement / Michael Bennett. -- Water quality measurement / Kathleen M. Leonard. -- Satellite imaging and sensing / Jacqueline Le Moigne and Robert F. Cromp.

Biopotentials and electrophysiology measurement / Nitish V. Takor.

Blood pressure measurement / Shyam Rithalia, Mark Sun, and Roger Jones.

Blood flow measurements / Per Ask and Åke Öberg.

Ventilation measurement / L. Basano and P. Ottonello.

Blood chemistry measurement / Terry L. Rusch and Ravi Sankar.

Medical imaging / James T. Dobbins III, Sean M. Hames, Bruce H. Hasegawa, Timothy R. DeGrado, James A. Zagzebski, and Richar Frayne.

Amplifiers and signal conditioners / Ramón Pallás-Areny.

Modulation / David M. Beams.

Filters / Rahman Jamal and Robert Steer.

Spectrum analysis and correlation : FFT spectrum analysis and correlation / Ronney B. Panerai. -- RF/Microwawe spectrum analysis / A. Ambrosini, C. Bortolotti, N. D'Amico, G. Grueff, S. Marioti, S. Montebugnoli; A. Orfei, and G. Tomassetti.

Applied intelligence processing / Peter H. Sydenham and Rodney Pratt.

Analog-to-digital converters / E. B. Loewenstein.

Computers / A. M. MacLeod, P. F. Martin, and W. A. Gillespie.

Telemetry / Albert Lozano-Nieto.

Sensor networks and communication / Robert M. Crovella.

Electromagnetic compatibility : Grounding and shielding in industrial electronic systems / Daryl Gerke and William Kimmel. -- EMI and EMC test methods / Jeffrey P. Mills.

Human factors in displays / Steven A. Murray y Barrett S. Caldwell.

Cathode ray tube displays / Christopher J. sherman.

Liquid crystal displays / Kalluri R. Sarma.

Plasma-driven flat panel displays / Robert T. McGrath, Ramanapathy Veerasingam, William C. Moffatt, and Robert B. Campbell.

Electroluminescent displays / William A. Barrow.

Light-emitting diode displays / Mohammad A. Karim.

Reading/recording devices / Graphic recorders / Herman Vermariën. -- Data acquisition systems / Edward McConnell. -- Magnetic and optical recorders / Yufeng Li.

PID Control / F. Greg Shinskey.

Optimal control / Halit Eren.

Electropneumatic and electrohydraulic instruments : modeling of electrohydraulic and electrohydrostatic actuators / M. Patcher and C. H. Houpis.

Explosion-proof instruments / Sam S. Khalilieh.

Measurement and identification of brush, brusless, and dc stepping motors / Stuart Schweid, Robert Lofthus, and John McInroy.

Appendix : units and conversions / B. W. Petley.