Handbook of Measuring System Design: 3 Volume Set

The most comprehensive and up–to–date reference work covering the scientific fundamentals and practical considerations for designing, developing and implementing measuring systems in a broad range of engineering and technological fields.
Measuring systems lie at the heart of all science, engineering and technology, and are used to quantify physical phenomena such as temperature, pressure, voltage and current.  Rapid advances in computing and electronics have enabled the development of highly sophisticated measuring systems that can be utilised across many industrial fields.
The Handbook of Measuring System Design provides an authoritative and comprehensive reference that addresses a wide range of measurement–specific design and application problems in the fields of engineering and technology.  Building on a thorough treatment of foundational topics the Handbook presents a modern, ‘systems thinking’ approach and covers many areas that have received little attention elsewhere (systems, safety, design, legal and artificial intelligence).

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VOLUME 1
Contributors.
Preface.
Abbreviations and Acronyms.
Introduction.
PART 1. FOUNDATIONS OF MEASURING.
SECTION 1. THE PROCESS OF MEASURING.
1. Sophistication of Measurement and its Body of Knowledge (Peter H. Sydenham).
2. Organization of Instrument Science (Joseph McGhee).
3. Measures and Metrics; Their Application (Peter H. Sydenham)
4. Economic Consideration of Measurement (Peter H. Sydenham).
5. Humans in the Real World (Joseph McGhee).
6. Substructure of Human–Machine Systems (Joseph McGhee).
SECTION 2. MEASURING THEORY AND PHILOSOPHY.
7. Introduction to Measurement Theory and Philosophy (Ludwik Finkelstein).
8. Formal Theory of Measurement (Ludwik Finkelstein).
9. Nature and Properties of Measurement (Ludwik Finkelstein).
10. Extensions of the Representational Theory of Measurement (Ludwik Finkelstein).
11. Measurement Theory in Physical, Social, and Psychological Science (Ludwik Finkelstein).
12. Fuzzy Approaches for Measurement (Eric Benoit, Laurent Foulloy and Gilles Mauris).
13. Signals, Information and Knowledge, and Meaning (Qing Ping Yang).
14. Hierarchical Aspects of Measurement Systems (Joseph McGhee).
15. Typical Measurement Systems Architecture (Joseph McGhee).
SECTION 3. ENVIRONMENTAL FACTORS.
16. Reduction of Influence Factors (Paul P.L. Regtien)
17. EMC and EMI (Kim R. Fowler).
SECTION 4. FEEDBACK IN MEASURING SYSTEMS.
18. Nature and Scope of Closed–loop Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
19. Dynamic Behavior of Closed–loop Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
20. Closed–loop Sampled Data Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
21. Nonlinear Closed–loop Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
SECTION 5. MESSAGING THEORY.
22. Characteristics and Theory of Knowledge (Luca P. Mari).
23. Principles of Semiotics as Related to Measurement (Luca P. Mari).
24. Principles of Epistemology as Related to Measurement (Timothy Lindsay John Ferris).
SECTION 6. SIGNAL THEORY.
25. Introduction to Signals in Physical Systems (Eugen Georg Woschni).
26. Signal Classification (Eugen Georg Woschni).
27. Signals in the Frequency Domain (Eugen Georg Woschni)).
28. Signals in the Time Domain (Eugen Georg Woschni).
29. Relationship Between Signals in the Time and Frequency Domain (Eugen Georg Woschni).
30. Statistical Signal Representations (Eugen Georg Woschni).
31. Discrete Signal Theory (Eugen Georg Woschni).
32. Geometrical Signal Representation (Eugen Georg Woschni).
33. Coding Theory and its Application to Measurement (Eugen Georg Woschni).
34. Modulation Theory (Eugen Georg Woschni).
SECTION 7. SYSTEMS THEORY.
35. Systems in the Time–Domain (Eugen Georg Woschni).
36. Systems in the Fre quency Domain (Eugen Georg Woschni)
37. Relationship Between Systems in the Time and Frequency Domain (Eugen Georg Woschni).
38. Stability Issues (Eugen Georg Woschni).
SECTION 8. SOURCES OF INFORMATION ON MEASUREMENT.
39. Characteristics of Data, Information, Knowledge, and Wisdom (Timothy Lindsay John Ferris).
40. Sources of Information (Peter H. Sydenham).
41. Terminology and Classification of Measurement Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
42. Information Databases of Relevance to Measurement (Peter H. Sydenham).
PART 2. UNITS, STANDARDS AND CALIBRATION.
SECTION 1. STANDARDS SUPPORTING MEASUREMENT.
43. Units (Brian W. Petley).
44. Types of Paper Standards and their Purpose (Halit Eren).
SECTION 2. CALIBRATION.
45. Calibration Process (Halit Eren).
46. Calibration Interval (Peter H. Sydenham).
47. Internet Calibration (Richard A. Dudley).
PART 3. ERROR AND UNCERTAINTY.
SECTION 1. ERROR AND UNCERTAINTY.
48. Common Sources of Errors in Measurement Systems (Dietrich Hofmann).
49. General Characterization of Systematic and Stochastic Errors (Martin Halaj).
50. Errors in Signal Systems (Eugen Georg Woschni).
51. Errors in Digital Signal Systems (Luca P. Mari).
52. Error Models, Error Budgets and their Calculation (Rudolf Palencár).
53. Calculation and Treatment of Errors (Joseph McGhee).
54. Explanation of Key Error and Uncertainty Concepts and Terms (Luca P. Mari).
55. Uncertainty Determination (Joseph McGhee).
PART 4. MEASURING SYSTEM BEHAVIOR.
SECTION 1. MEASURING SYSTEM SPECIFICATION.
56. Transfer Characteristics of Instrument Stages (Peter H. Sydenham).
57. Static Considerations of General Instrumentation (Peter H. Sydenham).
58. Description of Accuracy: Linearity, and Drift (Peter H. Sydenham).
59. Introduction to the Dynamic Regime of Measurement Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
60. Zero–order System Dynamics ( Peter H. Sydenham).
61. First–order System Dynamics (Peter H. Sydenham).
62. Second–order System Dynamics (Peter H. Sydenham).
VOLUME 2
PART 5. MEASURING SYSTEM DESIGN.
SECTION 1. ENGINEERING A MEASURING SYSTEM.
63. Outline of Systems Thinking (Peter H. Sydenham).
64. Executing A Measuring System Design (Peter H. Sydenham).
65. Life Cycle Concept (Floyd Guyton Patterson Jr.).
66. Phases of System Life Cycle (Kim R. Fowler).
67. Principle of Concept of Operations (ConOps) (Jack Ring).
68. Setting the System Boundaries (Joseph McGhee).
69. Requirements Allocation (Andrew Kusiak and Fang Qin).
SECTION 2. DESIGN METHODOLOGIES.
70. Measuring System Design Methodologies (Ludwik Finkelstein).
71. Modeling Methodology (Peter H. Sydenham).
72. Mathematical Methods of Optimization (Halit Eren).
SECTION 3. ELECTRONIC AND ELECTRICAL REGIME.
73. Overview of Electrical and Electronic Technique (Peter H. Sydenham).
74. Basic Electronic Components (Peter H. Sydenham).
75. Electronic System Building Blocks (Peter H. Sydenham).
76. Electronic Systems Design (Peter H. Sydenham).
77. Limits of Detection in Electronic Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
78. Embedded Systems (Timothy Wilmshurst).
79. Testing Electronic Systems (Patrick D.T. O’Connor).
SECTION 4. FINE MECHANICAL REGIME.
80. Principles of Fine Mechanics – Kinematic and Elastic Designs (Peter H. Sydenham).
81. Principles of Fine Mechanics – Systems Considerations (Peter H. Sydenham).
82. Kinematical Regime – Members and Linkages (Peter H. Sydenham).
83. Kinematical Regime – Fasteners, Bearings (Peter H. Sydenham
84. 83. Kinematical Regime – Rotary Motion (Peter H. Sydenham
85. Elastic Regime of Design – Design Principles (Peter H. Sydenham).
86. Elastic Regime of Design – Spring Systems (Peter H. Sydenham).
87. Elastic Regime of Des