Helps engineers and scientists assess and manage uncertainty at all stages of experimentation and validation of simulations
Fully updated from its previous edition,
Experimentation, Validation, and Uncertainty Analysis for Engineers, Fourth Edition
includes expanded coverage and new examples of applying the Monte Carlo Method (MCM) in performing uncertainty analyses. Presenting the current, internationally accepted methodology from ISO, ANSI, and ASME standards for propagating uncertainties using both the MCM and the Taylor Series Method (TSM), it provides a logical approach to experimentation and validation through the application of uncertainty analysis in the planning, design, construction, debugging, execution, data analysis, and reporting phases of experimental and validation programs. It also illustrates how to use a spreadsheet approach to apply the MCM and the TSM, based on the authors’ experience in applying uncertainty analysis in complex, large-scale testing of real engineering systems.
includes examples throughout, contains end of chapter problems, and is accompanied by the authors’ website www.uncertainty-analysis.com.
Guides readers through all aspects of experimentation, validation, and uncertainty analysis
Emphasizes the use of the Monte Carlo Method in performing uncertainty analysis
Includes complete new examples throughout
Features workable problems at the end of chapters
is an ideal text and guide for researchers, engineers, and graduate and senior undergraduate students in engineering and science disciplines. Knowledge of the material in this
Fourth Edition
is a must for those involved in executing or managing experimental programs or validating models and simulations.