Engine Testing - 4th Edition by A. J. Martyr and M. A. Plint

By A. J. Martyr and M. A. Plint

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It should be noted that the New Machinery Directive requires the good electrical practices recommended in Chapter 5 of this book, particularly those relating to equipotential bonding of electrical earth (ground) and practices aimed at the avoidance of electromagnetic interference (EMI) problems. It does, however, contain sentences such as “an emergency stop is a safety measure but not a protective device”, which may confuse experienced operators familiar with using lock-out EM stop buttons. The author recommends involvement with the forums and their websites of your national machinery manufacturing trade associations, many of which tend to give up-to-date advice on detailed compliance with these regulations.

The Latin “tag” that should be in every test engineer’s notebook is “Post hoc, ergo propter hoc”, meaning “after this, therefore because of this”. It has probably been used in the teaching of logic for millennia and is a very tempting logical fallacy much practiced by engineers today. It is an example of correlation not causation. The author, during his years of engine and test facility faultfinding, has also found useful the medical aphorism “When you hear hoofbeats, think horses not zebras”,3 now replaced by the cruder “KISS”dKeep It Simple, Stupid.

3358 kg/h Density at 1 bar abs. 19 kg/m Mixture temp. 45 m3/s These types of models are a type of “expert system”, the result of refinement based on experience of many man-years. 3 Diversity factor of thermal rating of facility services, plotted against number of test cells, based on empirical data from typical automotive test facilities. Chapter | 3 The Test Cell as a Thermodynamic System 49 “Future proofing” may be better designed into the facility by planning for possible incremental addition of plant rather than oversizing at the beginning.

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