Data Acquisition Systems for Civil Engineering
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Six laboratory courses have been selected for improvement with the              addition of microcomputer-based data acquisition systems.  These                courses cover the areas of hydraulics, soils and foundations,                   construction materials, structural behavior measurements, and                   construction planning.  The objective of the addition of these                  computers to these courses is to provide the students the                       opportunity to gain first-hand experience with computers as                     instrument controllers and data collectors.  All of these                       laboratory courses will use the same basic hardware and software.               A microcomputer will be located in the laboratory as the host for               the data acquisition system.  Data from the micro will be sent via              a Ethernet network to a VAX11/750 which will serve as a central                 file server for all of the laboratories.  During the laboratory                 session the students will control the experiments with the micros.              At a later time the students will use a remote terminal to the VAX              to retrieve their data, do the analysis, and prepare the                        appropriate graphs and figures for the lab report.  Using this                  centralized procedure, the students will have access to a great                 deal more data than is now presently available with conventional                systems of analog measurements recorded during the actual                       laboratory session.  Current laboratory course content is improved              by including both the statistical analysis of experimental data as              well as the analysis of the transient behavior of engineering                   materials.
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