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Instrumentation (ch. 4 in Lecture notes)
• Measurement systems – short introduction
• Measurement using strain gauges
• Calibration
• Data acquisition
• Different types of transducers
TMR7 Experimental methods in Marine Hydrodynamics – week 35
Instrumentation
and data
acquisition
Physical process Measurement result
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The old resistance measurement system
x kg
Towing Carriage
Ship model
Transducer = weights, wheels and string
Data acquisition = writing down total weight
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The new resistance measurement system
Towing Carriage
Ship model
AmplifierFilterA/D
Transducer
based on strain
gauges
Data acquisition and signal conditioning system
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Measurement systems
Amplifier Filter A/D
Analog signals Digital signals
Transducers
+- 10V DC+- 10 mV
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Strain gauges
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Wheatstone bridge
• DR is change of resistance due
to elongation of the strain gauge
• R is known, variable resistances
in the amplifier
• Vin is excitation – a known,
constant voltage source
• Vg is signal
1 2
Side view Front view
Force K
Straingauges R
+DR
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A B
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VgG
VinSupply of constant voltage
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Wheatstone bridge
• Constant voltage (can also be current) is supplied between A and C
• The measured voltage (or current) between B and G depends on the difference between the resistances R1-R4
• One or more of the resistances R1-R4 are strain gauges
• If all resistances are strain gauges, it is a full bridge circuit
• If only one resistance is a strain gauge it is a quarter bridge circuit
Supply of constant voltage
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Force transducer with two strain gauges, using
a Wheatstone half bridge
1 2
Side view Front view
Force K
Straingauges R
+DR
R
R-D
R
RA B
B
C
VgG
Vin
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Calibration
• How to relate an output Voltage from the amplifier to the
physical quantity of interest
Amplifier Filter A/D
Analog signals Digital signals
Transducers
+- 10V DC+- 10 mV
Known load Known measurement valueAdjust calibration
factor
Measurement value = transducer output amplification calibration factor
Calibration factor = Known load / (transducer output amplification )
In a measurement:
In a calibration:
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What is the calibration factor dependent
on?
• Type of strain gauges used (sensitivity)
• Shape of sensor and placement of strain gauges
• Excitation voltage
• Amplification factor (gain)
Sensor
dependence
Amplifier
settings
dependence
This means that one shall preferably calibrate the sensor
with the same amplifier and same settings as will be used in
the experiment
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Zero level measurement
• The measurement is made relative to a known reference
level
– Typically, the signal from the unloaded transducer is set as zero
reference
• Two options:
– Balancing the measurement bridge by adjusting the variable
resistances in the amplifier
• Tare/Zero adjust function in the amplifier
– First making a measurement of the transducer in the reference
condition (typically unloaded), and then subtract this measured
value from all subsequent measurements
• This is usually taken care of by the measurement software (Catman)
• In hydrodynamic model tests, we usually use both options
in each experiment
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Amplifiers• Many different types:
– DC
– AC
– Charge amplifier (for piezo-electric sensors)
– Conductive wave probe amplifier
• Provides the sensor with driving current (Vin)
• Amplifies the sensor output from mV to (usually) 10V DC
• Tare/zero adjust function (bridge balancing)
– Adjusting the resistances R1, R2, R3, R4 in the Wheatstone bridge to get zero VG in unloaded condition
Amplifier Filter A/D
Analog signals Digital signals
Transducers
+- 10V DC
1 2
Side view Front view
Force K
Straingauges R
+DR
R
R-D
R
R
A B
B
C
VgG
Vin
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A/D converters
• Conversion of analog 10V DC signal to digital
• Typically 12 to 20 bits resolution
• Typically 8 to several hundred channels
• Each brand and model requires a designated driver in the
computer, and often a custom data acquisition software
• Labview works with National Instruments (NI) A/D
converters, but also other brands provides drivers for
Labview
• Catman is designed to work only with HBM amplifiers
Amplifier Filter A/D
Analog signals Digital signals
Transducers
+- 10V DC
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A/D conversion – sampling of data
• The continuous analog signal is sampled at regular intervals - the
sampling interval h [s]
– The analog value at a certain instant is sensed and recorded
• The analog signal is thus represented by a number of discrete – digital
– values (numbers)
• The quality of the digital representation of the signal depends on:
– The sampling frequency f=1/h [Hz]
– The accuracy of the number representing the analog value
• The accuracy means the number of bits representing the number
• 8 bit means only 28=256 different values are possible for the number
representing the analog value => poor accuracy
• 20 bit means 220=1048576 different values => good accuracy
– The measurement range vs. the range of values in the experiment
– High sampling frequency and high accuracy both means large amounts of
data being recorded => large data files!
• The reason not to use high sampling frequency is mainly to reduce file size
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Sampling frequency
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Nyquist frequency fc
Means:
•You need at least two samples
per wave period to properly
represent the wave in in the
digitized data
•You should have more
samples per period to have
good representation …
•Less than two samples per
wave period will give “false
signals” (downfolding)
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Effect of folding
• To avoid folding:
– Make sure fc is high enough
that all frequencies are
correctly recorded
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– Apply analogue low-pass
filtering of the signal,
removing all signal
components at frequency
above fc before the signal is
sampled
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Response spectrum
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Filters – to remove parts of the signalAmplitude
Frequency
Ideal characteristic
Real characteristic
Low pass filter
High pass filter
Band pass filter
Removes high
frequency part of
signal (noise)
Removes low
frequency part of
signal (mean value)
Retains only
signals in a certain
frequency band
Amplifier Filter A/D
Analog signals Digital signals
Transducers
+- 10V DC
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Filtering – low pass filter
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Averaging window
Averaging window
Asymmetric filtering (used in real-time)
Symmetric filtering (can only be used after the test)
Real time filters always introduce a phase shift – a delay
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Data acquisition without filtering
• It is OK to do data acquisition without filtering as long as there is
virtually no signal above half the sampling frequency
– so there is no noise that is folded down into the frequency range of interest
• Requires high sampling frequency
– (>100 Hz, depending on noise sources)
• Requires knowledge of noise in unfiltered signal
– Spectral analysis, use of oscilloscope
• Unfiltered data acquisition eliminates the filter as error source, and
eliminates the problem of phase shift due to filtering
– Drawbacks:
• Must have good control of high-frequency noise
• Large sampling frequency means large data files
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Selection of filter and sampling
frequency
• The problem with high sampling frequency is that result
files become large
– Double the sampling frequency means double the file size
– This is less of a problem for measurement of low-frequency
phenomena (ship motions etc.)
• Low-pass filter should be set just high enough to let the
most high-frequency signal of interest to pass unmodified
• Sampling frequency should then be set to at least twice the
low-pass filter cut-off frequency, preferably 5-10 times this
value
– 20 Hz Low-Pass filter minimum: 40 Hz sampling
recommended: 200 Hz sampling
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Data acquisition software
• Communicates with the A/D converter
• Conversion from 10V DC to physical units
• Records the time series
• Common post-processing capabilities:
– Graphical presentation of time series
– Calculation of simple statistical properties (average, st.dev.)
– Zero measurement and correction for measured zero level
– Storage to various file format
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Data Acquisition with digital amplifiers
Analog
mV/V signal
Transducer
(strain gauge)MGC+ amplifier
Digital signal in
Physical units
Change of resistance
due to elongationStrain gauge excitation (amplification)
Bridge balancing
Analog to digital conversion
Zero correction (tare)
Filtering and signal conditioning
Conversion to physical units
Data acquisition software
Collecting data
Statistical analysis
Presentation
Storage to various file format
PC computer
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Length of records- of irregular wave tests and other randomly varying
phenomena
• The statistical accuracy is improved with increasing length
of record. The required duration depends on:
– The period of the most low frequent phenomena which occur in the
tests
– The system damping
– The required standard deviation of the quantities determined by the
statistical analysis
• Rule of thumb: 100 times the period of most low frequent
phenomena of interest
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Length of records
- Typical full scale record lengths:
• Wave frequency response: 15-20 minutes
• Slow-drift forces and motions: 3-5 hours (ideally 10
hours)
• Slamming ??
• Capsize ??
• To study and quantify very rarely occurring events, special
techniques must be applied!
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Transducer principles- for strain and displacement measurements
• Resistive transducers
– Change of resistance due to strain – strain gauges
• Inductive transducers
• Capacitance transducers
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Inductive transducers
• Measures linear displacement
(of the core)
• Needs A/C excitation
• Used also in force
measurements in combination
with a spring or membrane
Linear variable differential transformer
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Force measurement instruments:
Dynamometers
• 1-6 force components can be measured
• Strain gauge based sensors are most common
• One multi-component dynamometer might be made of
several one, two or three component transducers
• Many different designs are available
• Custom designs are common
• Special dynamometers for special purposes like:
– Propeller thrust and torque
– Rudder stock forces
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Propeller dynamometer for measurement of
thrust and torque
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Three-component force dynamometer
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6 component dynamometer
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Pressure Measurements
- Transducer principles
Inductive
Piezo-electric
Strain gauge
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Pressure Measurements
- Requirements
• Stability is required for velocity measurements
– Strain gauge or inductive
• Dynamic response (rise time and resonance frequency) is
important for slamming and sloshing measurements
– Piezo-electric
– Strain gauge
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Position measurements
• Mechanical connection:
– Inductive transducers
– Wire-over-potentiometer
– Wire with spring and force measurement
• Without mechanical connection:
– Optical and video systems
– Acoustic systems
– Gyro, accelerometers, Inertial Measurement Units (IMU)
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Mechanical position measurements
Ship model
PotentiometerMeasuring rotation
Wire connected to modelWire connected
to model
Spring
Axial force transducer
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Optical position measurement
• Remote sensing, non-intrusive measurement
• Using CCD video cameras
• Each camera gives position of the marker in 2-D
• Combination of 2-D position from two cameras gives
position in 3-D by triangulation
• Use of three markers on one model gives position in 6 DoF
by triangulation
• Calibration is needed for the system to determine:
– Camera positions and alignment
• The relative positions of the markers on the model must be
known to the system
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Optical position measurement principle
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Velocity measurements
• Intrusive measurement (probe at point of measurement)
– Pitot and prandtl tubes for axial or total velocity measurement
– Three and five hole pitot tubes for 2 and 3-D velocity measurement
– Various flow meter devices
• Non-intrusive measurement (no probe at point of measurement)
– Laser Doppler Anemometry (LDA or LDV)
• Measures velocity in a single point at each time instance
– Particle Image Velocimetry
• Measures flow field (2-D) in one instant
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Prandtl (pitot-static) tube
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Pitot tube
• Smaller size than Prandtl tube
• Less accurate, due to sensitivity to static pressure
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Prandtl tube rake for propeller wake
measurements
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Five-hole pitot tube
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Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
• Velocity distribution in a plane is found from the movement of particles in a short time interval
• High-speed video is used to capture images
• A sheet of laser light is used to illuminate the particles in thewater
• Finding the velocity by comparing the two pictures is not trivial
• ”Seeding” the water withsuitable particles is anotherpractical challenge
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3-D Particle Image Velocimetry (PIV)
• Like 2-D PIV, except that two cameras are looking at the
particles from different angles
• You obtain 3-D velocity vectors in a plane
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Laser Doppler Velocimetry (LDV or LDA)
• Point measurement – must move the probe to measure at different
locations
• Calibration free
• Give 3-D flow velocity – also time history
can measure turbulence intensity
Photo courtesy of Marin, the Netherlands
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Practical arrangement for stereo LDV
and PIV
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Applications of velocity measurement
systems
• Pitot and Prandtl tubes:
– Intrusive measurement of velocity at a single (or few) points
– Cheap, simple and reasonably accurate average
• LDA/LDV
– Very accurate, very high resolution point measurements, useful for
turbulence measurements
– Non-intrusive
– Doesn’t require calibration
– Costly and time consuming
• PIV
– Measurement of flow fields
– Non-intrusive
– Tedious calibration required for each new test set-up
– Very costly and time consuming
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Wave probes+ -
Wave probe amp.
+ -wave probe
output10V DC
Conductive wires
Water will short-circuit between the wires
Measurement of resistance,Conversion to +-10V DC
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Relative wave measurements
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Acoustic wave probes
• Working principle:
A sound pulse is emitted, and the time it takes the reflected
sound to reach the probe is used to calculate the distance to
the water
• Benefits:
– Works also at high forward speeds
– Non-intrusive
– Calibration free
• Drawbacks:
– More costly
– Steep waves in combination with smooth surface (no ripples)
causes drop-outs, when no reflected sound reach the probe