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TRANSDUCER ENGINEERING 4 CREDITS

Goal To provide basic knowledge about various transducers, sensors and their
Applications

Objectives Outcome
The course will enable the student to At the end of this course the student should be
(i) Acquire knowledge about the principles able to
and classification of transducers. (i) Understand the basic principles and
(ii) Elaborate on characteristics and response classification of transducers.
of transducers. (ii) Enumerate the static and dynamic
(iii) Understand the working of variable characteristics and
resistance transducers. (iii) Analyze the response of the system to
(iv) Acquire adequate knowledge of various inputs
variable inductance and capacitance (iv)Illustrate the construction and operation of
transducers various variable resistance transducers.
(v) Discuss the working of fiber optic and (v) Compare and analyze the working of
magnetostrictive transducers variable inductance, capacitance
transducers, fiber optic and magnetostrictive
transducers.

UNIT I:- SCIENCE OF MEASUREMENTS AND INSTRUMENTATION OF


TRANSDUCERS 12
Units and standards Calibration methods Static calibration Classification of errors Error
analysis Statistical methods Odds and uncertainty Classification of transducers Selection of
transducers.

UNIT II: - CHARACTERISTICS OF TRANSDUCERS 12


Static characteristics Accuracy, precision, resolution, sensitivity, linearity etc. Dynamic
characteristics Mathematical model of transducer Zero, I and II order transducers. Response to
impulse, step, ramp and sinusoidal inputs.

UNIT III: - VARIABLE RESISTANCE TRANSDUCERS 12


Principle of operation, construction details, characteristics and application of resistance
potentiometer, strain gauge, resistance thermometer, thermistor, hot-wire anemometer,
piezoresistive sensor and humidity sensor.

UNIT IV:- VARIABLE INDUCTANCE AND VARIABLE CAPACITANCE TRANSDUCERS


12
Induction potentiometer Variable reluctance transducers EI pick up LVDT Capacitive
transducer and types Capacitor microphone Frequency response.

UNIT V:- OTHER TRANSDUCERS 12


Piezoelectric transducer, magnetostrictive IC sensor Digital transducers Smart sensor Fiber
optic transducer.
L = 45 T=15 TOTAL = 60

TEXT BOOKS
1. E.A. Doebelin, Measurement SystemsApplications and Design, Tata McGraw Hill, New York,
2003.
2. A.K. Sawhney, A course in Electrical & Electronic Measurement and Instrumentation, Dhanpat
Rai and Co (P) Ltd., 2004.

REFERENCES
1. D. Patranabis, Sensors and Transducers, Prentice Hall of India, 2004. 2nd Edition
2. John P. Bentley, Principles of Measurement Systems, III Edition, Pearson Education, 2000.
3. Hermann K.P. Neubert, Instrument Transducers, Oxford University Press, 2000.
4. D.V.S Murthy, Transducers and Instrumentation, Prentice Hall of India, 2001.
5. S. Ranganathan, Transducer Engineering, Allied Publishers Pvt. Ltd., 2003.
6. Al Sutko and J.D. Faulk, Industrial Instrumentation, Vikas Publications, Delhi, 2006.

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