Course detail
Measurement and Experiment
FSI-ZEM Acad. year: 2025/2026 Winter semester
The course introduces to the students the meaning, principles and planning of technical experiment in the work of mechanical engineer. It also describes the basics of modern methods for measuring mechanical quantities and the structure of measuring instrument chain. It deals with the measurement of kinematic quantities, forces, torques, pressures and the analysis of continuous and discrete signals in the time and frequency domain. It defines the basic concepts and categories of reliability and technical diagnostics. Special attention is paid to vibroacoustic diagnostics.
Language of instruction
Czech
Number of ECTS credits
4
Supervisor
Department
Entry knowledge
Knowledge gained during the studies in the fields of numeric mathematics, statistics and probability, physics, dynamics and basics of electrotechnics
Rules for evaluation and completion of the course
Conditions for passing graded assessment:
Active presence at seminars and laboratory exercises.
Completing of all protocols from experiments.
Conditions for passing exam:
Passing the final test (min. 50 points). Up to 100 points can be obtained, the final classification will be determined according to the ECTS scale.
Presence at lectures is recommended, presence at laboratory exercises is mandatory and checked by the teacher, one absence can be substituted by laboratory exercise with other group in the same week or by elaboration of substituting task. In case of long-term absence, the compensation of the lost lessons is under the competence of the course guarantor – elaboration of special task.
Aims
The aim of the course is to introduce to the students the contemporary methods, instrumentation and computer technology for measuring basic physical quantities. These quantities serve as inputs for mathematical analysis used both for technical diagnostics of machines and for identification of virtual models.
An overview of the current possibilities of experimental investigation of selected physical quantities needed for assessment of the operating conditions of machines and their components.
Basic practical experience in the field of measurement of the non-electrical physical quantities.
Getting in touch with the modern measuring equipment and analysis methods of experimentally obtained data processing.
Study aids
Support for lectures, videos of lectures from previous semesters and materials for exercises are provided via e-learning.
The study programmes with the given course
Programme N-KSI-P: Mechanical Engineering Design, Master's, compulsory
Type of course unit
Lecture
16 hours, optionally
Syllabus
Measuring systems of electrical signals.
Computer systems for data acquisition and analysis.
Signal digitization and analysis of time-variable signals.
Statistical analysis of experimental data in time domain.
Analysis of measured signals in frequency domain.
Measurement of basic quantities from mechanics of solids.
Measurement of pressure, temperature and position triangulation.
Experiment planning and documentation.
Reliability and diagnostics.
Basics of technical diagnostics.
Vibration diagnostics of rotational machines.
Laboratory exercise
32 hours, compulsory
Syllabus
HW and SW of PC based data acquisition systems.
Statistical analysis of measured signals (MS Excel, Matlab).
FIR, IIR digital filtration, amplitude and phase characteristics.
Calibration of physical quantities transducers.
Crash test – presentation of DOE methodology.
Use of acoustics emission in technical diagnostics.
Diagnostics of gearboxes, acoustics diagnostics.
Practical realisation of rotary machines balancing.
Inner diagnostics of complex machinery.