Preface ........................................................ xi
Author ....................................................... xiii
1 Introduction to Statistical Design of Experiments:
Experimental Modeling of a Cooling System for Electronic
Equipment .................................................... 1
2 Vibration Isolation for Sensitive Instruments and
Machines ..................................................... 31
3 Design of a Vibrating-Cylinder, High-Accuracy Pressure
Transducer .................................................. 111
4 A Fast ("Cold-Wire") Resistance Thermometer for
Temperature Measurements in Fluids .......................... 147
5 Piezoelectric Actuation for Nanometer Motion Control ........ 177
6 Preliminary Design of a Viscosimeter ........................ 229
7 Inf rasonic and Ultrasonic Microphones ...................... 311
8 Some Basic Statistical Tools for Experiment Planning ........ 355
9 Multiaxial Force/Torque Measurement: Thrust Stands for Jet
Engines and Rocket Engines .................................. 387
10 Shock Calibrator for Accelerometers ......................... 467
11 Shock Testing and the Shock Response Spectrum ............... 507
Appendix A: Basic MATLAB®/Simulink® Techniques for Dynamic
Systems ..................................................... 561
A.l Basic Simulink Techniques .............................. 561
A.2 Basic Frequency-Domain Techniques in MATLAB ............ 622
Appendix B: Basic Statistical Calculations Using Minitab ....... 661
B.1 Introduction ........................................... 661
B.2 Getting Data into Minitab Using the Worksheet .......... 664
B.3 Manipulating Data in the Worksheet ..................... 666
B.4 Graphing Tools for General Graphing .................... 668
B.5 Checking Physical Data for Conformance to Some
Theoretical Distribution ............................... 671
B.6 Computing Mean and Standard Deviation (and Their
Confidence Intervals) for a Sample of Data ............. 673
B.7 Transforming a Non-Gaussian Distribution to
a Gaussian One ......................................... 674
B.8 Comparing Means and Standard Deviations ................ 679
B.9 Multiple Regression .................................... 682
Index .......................................................... 699
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