Experimental Methods for Mechanical Engineers

Uncertainty Analysis and Planning of Experiment; Methods of Experimental Design, Comparative Experiment, ANOVA and its use in single factor and multi factror analysis;Random Signal Analysis: Time domain analysis; RMS, Probability density function, Auto and Cross correlation function. Frequency domain analysis; Power spectrum, power spectral density, Cross spectral density; Digital Data Processesing:  Filtering and digital sampling; Windowing, FFT and aliasing; Introduction to Data Acquisition Systems: LABVIEW and ELVIS; Application of Random Signals in Mechanical Engineering