Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook Instrumentation, Systems, Controls, and MEMS Third Edition By Myer Kutz

Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook Instrumentation, Systems, Controls, and MEMS Third Edition By Myer Kutz

Contents:

PART 1 INSTRUMENTATION

1. Instrument Statics

2. Input and Output Characteristics

3. Bridge Transducers

4. Measurements

5. Temperature and Flow Transducers

6. Signal Processing

7. Data Acquisition and Display Systems

8. Digital Integrated Circuits: A Practical Application

PART 2 SYSTEMS, CONTROLS, AND MEMS

9. Systems Engineering: Analysis, Design, and Information Processing for Analysis and Design 

10. Mathematical Models of Dynamic Physical Systems

11. Basic Control Systems Design

12. Closed-Loop Control System Analysis

13. Control System Performance Modification

14. Servoactuators for Closed-Loop Control

15. Controller Design

16. General-Purpose Control Devices

17. State-Space Methods for Dynamic Systems Analysis

18. Control System Design Using State-Space Methods

19. Neural Networks in Feedback Control Systems

20. Mechatronics 

21. Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Design and Application 

Preface:

The second volume of the third edition of the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook (‘‘ME3’’) is comprised of two major parts: Part 1, Instrumentation, with eight chapters, and Part 2, Systems, Controls, and MEMS, with 13 chapters. The two parts are linked in the sense that most feedback control systems require measurement transducers. Most of the chapters in this volume originated not only in earlier editions of the Mechanical Engineers’ Handbook but also in a book called Instrumentation and Control, which was edited by Chester L. Nachtigal and published by Wiley in 1990. Some of these chapters have been either updated or exten sively revised. Some have been replaced. Others, which present timeless, fundamental concepts, have been included without change.1 In addition, there are chapters that are entirely new, including Digital Integrated Circuits: A Practical Application (Chapter 8), Neural Net works in Control Systems (Chapter 19), Mechatronics (Chapter 20), and Introduction to Microelectromechanical Systems (MEMS): Design and Application (Chapter 21)