502578 - MECHANICAL AND THERMAL MEASUREMENTS

courses

ID:

502578

Duration (hours):

49

CFU:

SSD:

BIOINGEGNERIA INDUSTRIALE

MISURE ELETTRICHE ED ELETTRONICHE

Year:

2025

Date/time interval

Secondo Semestre (02/03/2026 - 12/06/2026)

Course Objectives

To provide to the students the elements required for choosing and managing the instrumentation in industrial processes and the results of the performed measurements. Provide to the students competences on the sensors used in industrial processes.

Course Prerequisites

Course Language: Italian. Preferred competences coming from courses of electrotechnics, and technical physics. Such competences are not mandatory, since basics of what needed for understanding the course will be shown again at lesson

Teaching Methods

Lectures in class (45 hours including some exercise examples) + Laboratory (2 hours per group) where theory, techniques and practice inherent to thermal and mechanical measurements are illustrated, with particular emphasis to the industrial environment. 2 hours among the lectures in class will be dedicaded to theory and application about digital systems for data acquisition with particular care to Labview environment (NI). The laboratory activity consists in reading-out a temperature sensor (a thermistor or a thermo-resistor) by means of a conditioning network and NI-DAQ + LabView environment.
During classes, however, as mentioned, some more practical examples will be shown.
On the basis of Faculty regulations, course slides will be shared and on-demand meetings may be setup by e-mail, even after 6 p.m., specially for workers

Assessment Methods

The written exam in standard sessions is mandatory and it is based on questions with multiple answers. The written exam is valid with a mark equal or higher than 14.5/30. The oral exam is not mandatory with a written exam mark equal or higher than 17.5/30. The oral exam is anyway necessary to register a written mark higher than 24/30. The oral exam consists of questions regarding the explanation of sensors for thermal and mechanical measurements mainly employed in the industrial processes environment. The score associated to the oral exam is in the range [-6, +12]. The student may provide (not mandatory) a report about the laboratory experience or other topics chosen together with the teacher (for instance a brief literature research about a particular sensor or comments about a scientific paper about the course program). The report will add from 0 to 3 to the final mark. Video-lectures about DAQ systems will be available. It is possible to use paper books, slides and notes at the written exam. It is possible to use the scientific calculator. In extra sessions the exam may be in the form oral-only with deeper investigation. In-itinere exams are not planned. Spring extra session (april) exam for this course is usually available. Fall session (november) exam for this course is not guaranteed.
The maximum mark without oral part is 24/30 without delivering the additional report and 27/30 delivering it. The evaluation of the report is valid to recover not fully sufficient written exam score, for a score of at least 14.5/30. Regarding the complete course of Industrial Measurements (L, 12 CFU) the final mark will be the average score between the module of Mechanical and Thermal Measurements and the module of Electrical Measurements. In order to attend written exam, the subscription to S3 platform is mandatory for the date of interest (partial exam, not overall registration: hint not relevant for LM, 6 CFU). The oral exam can be booked by e-mail. The request for registration of the final mark must be done by e-mail.

Texts

Fundamental (official):
- Lecture slides (available to all signed up students)
Additional (unofficial):
- Video Lectures (in studio)
For deeper learning:
- E. Doebelin: Strumenti e metodi di misura
- M. Norgia et al: MISURE
- G. Rossi: Misure meccaniche e termiche
- J.L. Lienhard: A Heat Transfer Textbook

General concepts on industrial measurements and their execution; description if the most common measurement instruments and sensors: basic operating principle, implementation features and tips for the correct installation; operative aspects for managing the measurement process and the exploitation of the collected results.
In detail:
- General concepts
- Temperature measurements
- Pressure measurements
- Level measurements
- Flow measurements
- Acoustic measurements
- Digital acquisition data systems
- Deformation measurements
- Mass and length measurements
- Inertial measurements
- Basics on standards and security

Course Language

Italian

More information

Once subscribed to the course, it will be possible to access the Kiro page of it, on which several updates and announcements will be reported during the academic year. Also slides of the course and video lessons will be available aligned with the lessons given.