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The document discusses the importance of pressure measurement in industry and its principles, which are also applicable to temperature, flow, and liquid levels. It highlights that pressure is defined as force per unit area and describes various pressure sensing devices, focusing on diaphragms as a method for measuring pressure through deflection. The document further categorizes diaphragms into flat and corrugated types, explaining their construction and function.

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Sensor & Transducer Unit 1 pdf 6

The document discusses the importance of pressure measurement in industry and its principles, which are also applicable to temperature, flow, and liquid levels. It highlights that pressure is defined as force per unit area and describes various pressure sensing devices, focusing on diaphragms as a method for measuring pressure through deflection. The document further categorizes diaphragms into flat and corrugated types, explaining their construction and function.

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SENSORS AND TRANSDUCERS

Unit-1

Dr. Anurag Chauhan


Assistant Professor REC Banda
Measurement of Pressure
• Pressure measurements are one of the most
important measurements made in industry.
• The principles used in the measurement of
pressure are also, applied in the measurement
of temperature, flow, and liquid levels.
• Pressure is represented as force per unit area.
As such it may be considered as a type of
stress since stress is also defined as force per
unit area.
• Most pressure measuring devices use elastic
members at the primary stage for sensing of
pressure. These elastic members are of many
types and convert the pressure into
displacement. Many a times they are known as
Force Summing Devices. Some of the common
force summing devices are :
(i) Bourdon tubes
(ii) Diaphragms and
(iii) Bellows.
Pressure Sensing Devices
Pressure Sensing Devices
Diaphragm
• The movement of a diaphragm is a convenient way of
sensing a pressure. The unknown pressure is applied to
one side of the diaphragm. The edge of the diaphragm is
rigidly fixed and this causes a deflection.
• The displacement of the centre of the diaphragm may be
measured in order to know the value of the pressure,
because the deflection is directly proportional to the
pressure. The diaphragms are of two types : (i) Flat, and
(ii) Corrugated.
• The diaphragms may be membranes. However, it is usual
to employ thin circular plates which may either be
clamped around their circumference between two solid
rings or are machined from a solid piece of metal.

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