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Measuring Methods and Metrology

Type of study Follow-up Master
Language of instruction English
Code 060-0039/01
Abbreviation MMM AnJ
Course title Measuring Methods and Metrology
Credits 3
Coordinating department Department of Security Services
Course coordinator Ing. Petr Bitala, Ph.D.

Subject syllabus

1. Metrological system in the Czech Republic, elements of metrological security. Metrological organizations in the Czech Republic and legal regulations of metrology. State metrological supervision. Metrological confirmation.
2. Measuring technology - division, static and dynamic properties of measuring instruments.
3. International System of Units SI. Electromagnetic radiation, thermal radiation, definition of temperature, basics of temperature measurement.
4. Temperature measurement by contact methods I. Expansion thermometers, thermocouples - Seebeck effect.
5. Temperature measurement by contact methods II. Resistance temperature sensors - metal, Resistance temperature sensors - semiconductor, diode thermometers, special thermometers.
6. Temperature measurement by non-contact method. Basic laws describing thermal radiation. Pyrometers, IR thermometers, thermal imaging. Thermal camera construction and description of parameters. Use of thermal imagers in security engineering.
7. Measurement of pressure and flow rate of liquids. Bernoulli's equation and continuity equation. Hydrostatic, deformation and piston pressure gauges. Pressure sensors with resistance strain gauges, capacitive and piezoelectric sensors, operational pressure measurement.
8. Measurements in security engineering. Ballistics, X-rays, metal detectors, detection of hazardous substances - Raman spectroscopy and gas chromatography with mass spectrometry, fire technical characteristics, demonstration of laboratories.
9. Physical bases of measurement and realization of experiment. Helmholtz theory of measurement, representation theory, relational system, scales and their types.
10. Preparation of the experiment and its implementation. Experimental control methods. Statistical files and evaluation of obtained data. Processing of a set of own experimental data.
11. Measurement accuracy, errors, uncertainties, deviations. Error theory and equalization calculus. Laws of spreading uncertainty.
12. End gauges, accuracy classes. Calipers and micrometers and their control. Other technical measurements.

E-learning

Study materials in electronic form provided in MST.

Literature

MORRIS, A. S. Measurement and instrumentation principles. 3rd edition. Butterworth-Heinemann, 2001. ISBN 978-0750650816.
DYER, Stephen A. Wiley Survey of Instrumentation and Measurement [online]. 2004, 1112 s. [cit. 2021-01-27]. ISBN 978-0-471-22165-4 .
LIPTAK, B .G., Instrument engineers' handbook. Vol. 1: Process Measurement and Analysis. 4th ed. Boca Raton: CRC Press, c2003. ISBN 0849310830 .
KADLEC, Karel et al. Measurement and control of chemical, food and biotechnological processes – Volume I Process Measurement. London: STS Science Centre, 2019. Monograph (Key Publishing). ISBN 978-80-7418-306-5 .

Advised literature

ANDERSON, Norman A. Instrumentation for Process Measurement and Control. 3rd edition. CRC Press, 1998. ISBN 0-8493-9871-1 .
SMITH, Cecil L. Basic Process Measurements. 2009, 358 s. ISBN 978-0-470-38024-6.
KADLEC, Karel et al. Measurement and control of chemical, food and biotechnological processes – Volume II Process Control. London: STS Science Centre, 2019. Monograph (Key Publishing). ISBN 978-80-7418-307-2 .