Metrology Handbook Series

The reference shelf for the calibration bench.

In-depth handbooks for calibration technicians and metrology engineers — starting with the principles every discipline shares, then building out discipline by discipline: the theory, the instruments, the calibration methods, and the uncertainty budgets behind them.

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How the series is organized HB
  • HB-100
    FoundationsMeasurement science, traceability, uncertainty, reference
  • HB-200
    Electrical & ElectronicDC and low-frequency theory, instrument calibration
  • HB-300
    DimensionalLength, angle, form, and environmental effects
  • HB-400
    MechanicalForce, hardness, and related physical quantities

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Metrology Handbook Series

Foundations

Measurement science, traceability, uncertainty, reference
HB-100, Introduction to the Science of Measurement, 2nd Edition
Welcome to the Science of Measurement, where every unit, scale, and standard tells a story of human curiosity, collaboration, and innovation. Every standard embodies our collective commitment to understanding our world with ever-greater clarity. This is where precision meets purpose and where your expertise helps build the foundation for tomorrow's breakthroughs.
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HB-103 Calibration Technician Handbook
The Calibration Technician Handbook consisting of 232 pages is a condensed working reference for the calibration bench. It is organized by measurement discipline and focused on the instruments and standards of a typical calibration laboratory workload, from digital multimeters and gage blocks to piston gauges, dry-block calibrators, humidity generators, and light meters.
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HB-101 Foundations of Metrology
The Foundations of Metrology consisting of 137 pages is the foundational volume of the Metrology Institute handbook series. It establishes the knowledge every calibration professional needs regardless of their measurement discipline. The principles covered here—traceability, uncertainty evaluation, decision rules, quality management, and professional practice—apply to every calibration performed in every laboratory, on every instrument, and in every discipline.
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HB-102 Metrology Reference Guide
The Metrology Reference guide consisting of 94 pages consolidates the mathematics, physical-dimensional quantities, and electronic principles a calibration technician uses across disciplines: general mathematics and measurement uncertainty; length, angle, temperature, humidity, force, torque, mass, density, pressure, rotary motion, and vibration; and DC and AC electrical theory, component identification, and the SI electrical units and quantum standards that anchor them.

Electrical / Electronic

DC Low-frequency theory, instrument calibration
HB-201 DC Low-Frequency Electrical Metrology
The DC and Low-Frequency Electrical Metrology consisting of 218 pages is the theory volume for the electrical and electronic part of the Metrology Handbook Series. It explains how the electrical units are defined and realized, how their values are transferred from national standards to the working bench, and how the instruments in the DC and low-frequency laboratory make their measurements.
HB-206 Digital Multimeter Calibration
The Digital Multimeter Calibration handbook consisting of 161 pages covers the most widely calibrated instruments in the electrical laboratory. It teaches how to calibrate digital multimeters across every function and range, from the 3½-digit handheld in an electrician's pouch, through the 5½- and 6½-digit bench meter, to the 7½- and 8½-digit reference multimeter that holds a laboratory's own measurements.
HB-207 Osciloscope Calibration
The Oscilloscope Calibration Handbook consisting of 149 pages teaches how to calibrate oscilloscopes across the tests their manufacturers verify, from the two-channel bench oscilloscope on a teaching bench, through the four-channel mixed-signal oscilloscope in a design laboratory, to the battery-powered handheld oscilloscope with isolated inputs that goes into the field, together with the oscilloscope calibrators, active heads, and probes that make calibration possible.

Dimensional

Length, Angle, Form, and enviromental effects
HB-301 Dimensional Measurement
The Dimensional Measurement Handbook consisting of of 292 pages and covers the discipline of dimensional metrology: the science and practice of measuring the geometric properties of objects, including length, diameter, thickness, height, depth, flatness, and angle, and of controlling the errors and environmental effects that stand between an instrument's indication and the true size of the part.
HB-302 Thread Measurement
The Thread Measurement handbook consists of 267 pages and covers the measurement and gaging of screw threads: the geometry and terminology of straight and tapered threads, the Unified inch, ISO metric, and pipe-thread systems and their designations, the fits and tolerances that make threads interchangeable, the functional gages and variable methods used to inspect them, the thread measuring wires and setting gages that stand behind those methods, the calibration of wires and gages, and the uncertainty, care, and reporting that make a thread result defensible.

Mechanical

Force, Torque, Hardness, and relarted physical quaniities
HB-403-Force Measurement
The Force Measurement Handbook consisting of 155 pages treats tension and compression force from newtons to meganewtons, and hardness testing as a force-derived measurement: force transducers and load cells, proving rings, deadweight and comparator force calibration machines, the ASTM E74, ISO 376, and ASTM E4 methods, hardness calibration, uncertainty budgets, mass-to-force conversion, and the applications and laboratory quality systems that depend on them.