1.0 Mechanical Measurement Systems Missouri （1.0机械测量系统密苏里州）.pdf

1.0 Mechanical Measurement Systems Measurement of mechanical systems has long been an issue for engineers. Having been trained to deal with mechanical systems, the use of electrical or electronic system to make measurements on these mechanical systems are far from obvious. For a mechanical engineer to properly select and utilize electronic measurement devices requires both an understanding of the mechanical system and an understanding of the characteristics of the transducers. This is not to say that all measurement systems are electronic, because there are a number of purely mechanical measurement devices that far predate the high tech electronic systems that are used in many of today’s systems. To fully understand how a measurement system works, we have to first understand exactly what a measurement system is and what it is capable of. 1.1 Definition of a Measurement system The measurement system can be defined as the all the components included from the interface to the physical property being measured, pressure, vibration etc, to the recorded data storage. This not only includes the physical devices, but the user as well. Electrical Logged and Interface processed data Physical Mode Physical condition interface conversion being measured Human readable interface Figure 1.1: Complete measurement system The measurement system in its simplest form generates a human readable interface that can be used