DME SYLLABUS
1. Introduction to Mechanical Engineering:
● Design, design process, Interaction between design process elements, Design Economics
● Uncertainty
● Stress and strength
● Codes and Standards
● Factors of safety (FOS), selection of FOS
● Probabilistic approach to Design
● Engineering materials-ferrous and non-ferrous
● Designation of steels as per IS and ASTM standards
● Selection of materials- the basics, selection strategy, computer aided selection
● Manufacturing considerations in design
● Interchangeability, Limits, Fits, and Tolerances as per Indian Std. System
2. Failures:
● Failures resulting from Static loading
● Failures resulting from variable loading
● static strength and stress concentration
● introduction to fatigue in metals
● Strain life relationship, stress life relationship
● Endurance limit modifying factors
● stress concentration and notch sensitivity
● Cumulative damage in fatigue, design factors in fatigue
3. Design of Joints:
● Design of Cotter joints and knuckle joints.
● Riveted joints:
○ Stresses in riveted joints
○ failure analysis on strength basis
○ Riveted joints in boilers and pressure vessels
○ structural riveted joints
○ eccentric loading of structural rivets
4. Threaded fasteners, Pipe joints, Welded joints:
● Threaded fasteners:
○ Thread standards
○ stresses in screw threads
○ preloading of bolts
○ bolted joints
○ eccentric loading
○ design of screw jack
● Pipe joints:
○ Design of Oval
○ square and round flanged pipe joints under low and high pressure
● Welded joints:
○ Types of welded joints
○ stresses in butt and fillet welds
○ torsion and bending in welded joints
○ welds subjected to fluctuating loads
5. Springs:
● Stresses in helical springs
● deflection of helical springs
● extension, compression and torsion springs
● design of helical springs for static and fatigue loading
● critical frequency of helical springs
● stress analysis and design of leaf springs
6. Design of shafts, keys and couplings, Spur gears, Mechanical elements using CAD:
● Design of shafts
○ Stresses in shafts
○ design for static loads
○ reversed bending and steady torsion
○ design for strength and deflection
○ design of shafts under fatigue loading
● Design of keys and couplings:
○ rigid and flexible coupling
● Design of Spur gears
○ using Lewis and Buckingham equation and AGMA design standards.
● Design of mechanical elements (SM, FEA, CAD)
○ using solid modeling and finite element analysis using available softwares in CAD
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