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Measurement Techniques: Motion and Vibration

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ME-301: Measurement techniques

Theoretical and practical course on experimental techniques for observation and measurement of physical variables such as force, strain, temperature, flow velocity, structural deformation and vibrations, etc. ...

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This lecture covers measurement techniques for motion and vibration, including strain gauges, eddy currents, laser Doppler vibrometers, accelerometers, and their applications. It explains how these techniques work, their advantages, disadvantages, and real-world uses in various industries.

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Kossi Agbeviade

Karen Ann J Mulleners

Expertise experimental fluid dynamics, unsteady aerodynamics, vortex dynamics, flow separation Karen Mulleners is an associate professor in the institute of mechanical engineering in the school of engineering at EPFL. She is the head of the unsteady flow diagnostics laboratory (UNFoLD). She is an experimental fluid dynamicist who focuses on unfolding the origin and development of unsteady flow separation and vortex formation. Karen studied physics in Belgium (Hasselt University, previously Limburgs Universi

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