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Measurement Techniques

  • Course code: FBOM100
  • Course higher education credits: 4.5
  • Department: ARCHITECTURE AND CIVIL ENGINEERING
  • Graduate school: Civil and Environmental Engineering
  • Course is normally given: Contact Tang Luping. tang.luping@chalmers.se
  • Language: The course will be given in English

Course description
This course will provide PhD students with fundamentals to measurement techniques applicable to the field of civil engineering. In the course the following topics will be handled:

        ·         Uncertainties  General aspects,

·         Concept and planning of measurement,

·         Selection of test methods - Quality vs costs,

·         Standardisation and accreditation,

·         Estimation of error and uncertainty,

·         Measurement instrument and calibration of instrument,

·         Organisation of inter-comparison tests,

·         Precision of test methods

·         Collection, analysis and treatment of data, and 


The problems and questions from students¿ own measurement experiments and studies will be discussed in the course.  .

Registrering/Application information
Application is made by sending an email to Tang Luping

 

Literature

Technical reports, book chapters, journal articles, and handouts will be supplied before and during the course
Lecturers
Professor Tang Luping, Division of Building Technology
More information
Email to: tang.luping@chalmers.se, phone: +46 (0)31 772 2305, Department of Architecture and Civil Engineering, Sven Hultins gata 6

Published: Tue 22 Aug 2017.