LabVIEW for Electric Circuits, Machines, Drives, and Laboratories

The first interactive, LabVIEW-based guide to electrical system analysis and operation.

For the first time, you can master electric circuits, machines, devices, and power electronics, hands on-without the use of expensive equipment. Using custom-written LabVIEW Virtual Instruments, Nesimi Ertugrul walks you through every key topic associated with the analysis and operation of a wide range of AC and DC circuits, electrical machines, and drives-including high-voltage/current/power applications covered in no other book. Ertugrul presents detailed background on every topic, along with full VI panels, complete laboratory practices, hardware information, wiring diagrams, printed circuit layouts, and self-study questions: everything you need to achieve true mastery.

• Periodic waveforms, harmonics, equivalent circuits, and DC circuit analysis
• AC circuit analysis, phasors, complex powers, power factor correction, and three-phase AC systems
• Magnetic circuits, BH characteristics, and losses
• Transformers, asynchronous motors, synchronous machines, stepper motors, brushless permanent magnet motors, and switched reluctance motors
• Diode and SCR conduction, diode rectifiers, AC choppers, cycloconverters, and inverters
• Advanced motor drives and control techniques

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Contains a complete copy of LabVIEW 6 Evaluation Version, plus all Virtual Instrumentations (VIs) presented in the book, enabling readers to test diverse operating conditions for a wide range of circuits.

Master electric circuits, machines, devices, and power electronics hands on-without expensive equipment. In LabVIEW for Electric Circuits, Machines, Drives, and Laboratories Dr. Nesimi Ertugrul uses custom-written LabVIEW Virtual Instruments to illuminate the analysis and operation of a wide range of AC and DC circuits, electrical machines, and drives-including high-voltage/current/power applications covered in no other book. Includes detailed background, VI panels, lab practices, hardware information, and self-study questions - everything you need to achieve true mastery.

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Ertugrul (University of Adelaide) introduces the computer simulation of DC and AC electric circuits, electromechanical devices, and electric motor and drive systems. The textbook provides instructions for testing periodic waveforms, voltage and currents, magnetization characteristics, losses in DC motors, diode conduction, and stepper motors, to name a few. The CD-ROM contains virtual instruments and an evaluation version of LabVIEW 6. Annotation c. Book News, Inc., Portland, OR

NESIMI ERTUGRUL is a Senior Lecturer at the University of Adelaide, where he specializes in the development of interactive computer-based teaching/learning systems involving object-oriented programming and data acquisition. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Newcastle Upon Tyne, UK. Dr. Ertugrul is a Member of IEEE and serves on the Editorial Advisory Board for the International Journal of Engineering Education (IJEE). He coordinated and edited two special issues on LabVIEW Applications in Engineering Education, and on Remote Access and Distance Learning Laboratories for IJEE.