About Book:

           We have always felt the need for a suitable textbook on instrumentation encompassing the three main features, viz., instrumentation principles, measurement techniques and data analysis, presented in a form that is lucid and easily comprehensible to students.  Currently, both students and teachers have been experiencing difficulty in finding these three aspects highlighted in a single textbook.  In fact, the syllabi of most courses on instrumentation experimental methods for various undergraduate and postgraduate disciplines comprise all the three aspects.  Keeping in view the above-mentioned requirements, we have endeavoured to bring out the present textbook based on our wide and long-standing experience of teaching and research in this interdisciplinary field of instrumentation.

            The first edition of Instrumentation, Measurement and Analysis was published in 1985 and the second edition was published in 2004.  There have been several reprints subsequently every year.  In view of the area being truly interdisciplinary and several developments in the area taking place, a need for revision was felt by a number of institutes of Science, Engineering and Technology.  Comments were invited and received by the publisher from several reputed teachers in the area.  These were carefully looked into by the authors and the third edition is based on the above suggestions from various reviewers.

The third edition includes the following new features:

• Two new chapters namely, Dimensional Metrology and Electrical Measurements
• A new section on Virtual Instruments
• Revision of the chapter on Condition Monitoring and Signature Analysis and inclusion of sections on Material Defect Monitoring and Acoustic Emission Monitoring after deletion of the chapter on Non-Destructive Testing.
• Revision of the chapter on Motion Measurements with due emphasis on Vibration Measurements
• Revision of the chapter on Introduction to Instruments and Their Representation
• Addition of new problems in a number of chapters

Addition of an appendix on Derivation of Solution for Step Response of Second-Order System Response