4ME1: INSTRUMENTATION & CONTROL

 

SECTION A: INSTRUMENTATION

  1. System configuration, basic characteristic, calibration, classification and performance characteristics of a instrumentation system, specification and testing of dynamic response.

  2. Strain Measurement: Electric Strain Gauges - Types; Selection and installation, Strain gauge circuits; temperature compensation and calibration; Use of Strain Gauges on Rotating Shafts, load cells. Mechanical and Optical Strain Gauges.

  3. Various Mechanical and Electrical Sensors for sensing of Displacement. Velocity, Acceleation, Torque, Force, Temperature from Low of High Range, Flow, level of fluid, pressure, angular speed, voltage, frequency and current

  4. Introduction to Multi-Channel Data Acquisition System, Measurement Pods, Interface Hardware, Data Analysis Software, Interfacing

List of Racommended Books:

    A.INSTRUMENTATION

  1. Mechanical Measurements and Instrumentation, A.K. Sawhney, Puneet Sawhney, Dhanpat Rai & Co.

  2. Mechanical Measurements, Thomas G. Backwith, N. Lewis Buck, Roy, D., Marangoni, Narosa Publishing House

  3. Industrial Instrumentation and Control, S.K.Singh, Tata McGraw Hill

SECTION B: CONTROLS

  1. Concepts and examples of automatic control systems by differential equations, transfer function, block diagram, open and feed back control systems, signal flow graphs and its construction. ControlSystem components, error sensing devices and servo motors.

  2. Contol for mechanical systems & processes; speed control system for steam/gas turbines. A constant tension reeling system. Electro-mechanical systems. Thermal systems. Pneumatic systems; Mathematical Models of Physical system, Feed back characteristics of control systems.

  3. Time response analysis; transiet response analysis, time response specifications, steady state-error

  4. Concepts of stability, Routh-Hurwiz stability critzion, relative stability. The root locus technique, use of construction rules without any derivation

  5. Frequency response analysis, Polar plots; stability in frequency domain Bode / Logarithmic plots; Nyquist stability criterion

List of Recommended Books:

  1. Control Systems Engineering; I.J.Nagrath & M.Gopal, Wilay Eastern Limited

  2. Automatic Control Engineering; Raxen, McGraw Hill, International Edition

  3. Modern Control Engineering; J.K. Ogata, Prentice Hall of India Pvt. Ltd. New Delhi.