Czichos H. Measurement, Testing and Sensor Technology: Fundamentals and Application to Materials and Technical Systems

Springer International Publishing AG, 2018. — 214 p. — ISBN: 3319763849.This book presents the principles, methods and techniques to characterize materials and technical systems.
In science and technology, various methods are utilized to characterize objects of interest:
–Measurement is the assignment of a number to a characteristic of an item.
–Testing is a procedure to determine characteristics (attributes) of a given object and express them by qualitative and quantitative means.
–Sensors transform parameters of interest into electrical signals that can be displayed, stored, or further processed for applications in science and technology.
This book is an interdisciplinary compendium of measurement, testing, and sensor technology. It describes principles, methods, and techniques that were separately developed in physics and engineering disciplines but must be jointly applied to characterize materials and technical systems.
This book is organized with concise text–graphics combinations in three parts:
-Part I presents the fundamentals of measurement, testing, and sensor technology, including a survey of sensor types for dimensional metrology, kinematics, dynamics, and temperature. It describes also microsensors and embedded sensors.
-Part II gives an overview of materials and explains the application of measurement, testing, and sensor technology to characterize composition, microstructure, properties, and performance of materials as well as deterioration mechanisms and reliability.
-Part III introduces the general systems theory for the characterization of technical systems, exemplified by mechatronic and tribological systems, and describes technical diagnostics for structural health monitoring and performance control.