58:080 Experimental Engineering
Mini-Lab: Bias and Precision Errors, and Accuracy
- Mini-Lab Manual
- How to read a micrometer *PRE-LAB READING*
- Rod tolerances (Type 6061-T6 Aluminum)
- Chauvenet Criterion test
- Example Technical Memo
Lab 1
Lab 1a: Wind Tunnel Testing
- Lab 1a guidelines
- Flotek 360 wind tunnel instructions
- Reference[3] Experimental Data
- Reference[4] Low Speed Airfoil Data
- Flotek 360 specifications
- Airfoil Lift Drag Data
- Lab 1a LabView program
Lab 1b: Cooling Tower Performance and Sensors for Thermal-Fluid Systems
- Lab 1b Guidelines
- P.A. Hilton Cooling Tower Manual
- P.A. Hilton Cooling Tower Website
- Pressure Transducer for Air Mass Flow
- Lab 1b LabView program
Lab 1c: "Isentropic" Blow-Down Process and Discharge Coefficient
- Lab 1c guidelines
- Ice Point calibrator
- Theory: Isentropic Blow-Down Process from Prof. LD Chen's Course Notes
- Example calculations
- Lab 1c theory
- Precision and Bias Errors
- Lab 1c LabView program
Lab 1e: Compressed Air Turbine Performance Measurement
- Lab 1e guidelines
- P.A. Hilton Reaction Turbine Manual
- P.A. Hilton Reaction Turbine Website
- Lab 1e required reading
Lab 1f: Boiling Heat Transfer Paradox
- Lab 1f guidelines
- (Text) A Boiling Heat Transfer Experiment for Senior Level Engineering Laboratory
- (Figures) A Boiling Heat Transfer Experiment for Senior Level Engineering Laboratory
- Boiling heat transfer experiment webpage
- Lab 1f post-processing program (executable, 89 kB) and (Matlab file)
- Lab 1f LabView program
- NI USB 9213 DAQ Manual
- NI USB 9213 DAQ Data sheet
Lab 1g: Horizontally Forced Pendulum and Chaotic Motion
- Lab 1g guidelines
- Lab 1g Matlab programs (zip file)
- Lab 1g rotary sensor details
- Lab 1g LabView program
- Pasco CI 6538 rotary motion sensor manual
- Intro to Frequency Analysis
- Test data for frequency intro
Additional Resources
Boiling Heat Transfer Experiment
Introduction to System Response
Note: This section is intended to help you get familiar with the dynamics labs; refer to the appropriate part for post-processing of the labs.
- Bode Plot basics (magnitude, phase shift of the response)
- 1 degree of freedom (DOF) 2nd-order system theory: transfer function, magnitude, phase shift
- Sample Excel worksheet for plotting magnitude and phase shift of 1 DOF 2nd-order systems
More Resources
