Amie Syllabus Sec B Mechanical
Amie Syllabus Sec B Mechanical
Amie Syllabus Sec B Mechanical
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SYLLABUS OF SECTION B OF AMIE EXAMS
MECHANICAL ENGINEERING A Focused Approach
Compulsory Subjects
IC 402 Engineering Management
MC 403 Mechanics of Solids
MC 404 Mechanics of Fluids
MC 405 Thermal Science and Engineering
MC 406 Manufacturing Technology
MC 407 Design of Machine Elements
Optional Subjects
(Any three from any one Group)
Group I Thermal Engineering
MC 411 Refrigeration and Air-conditioning
MC 412 Power Plant Engineering
MC 413 Non-conventional Energy Systems
MC 414 Internal Combustion Engines
MC 415 Turbo-machinery
Group II Engineering Design
MC 421 Design of Mechanical Systems
MC 422 Optimization — Theory and Applications
MC 423 Analysis and Synthesis of Mechanisms and Machines
MC 424 Design of Machine Tools
MC 425 Computer Aided Engineering Design
Group III Manufacturing Engineering
MC 431 Manufacturing Science
MC 432 Computer Aided Manufacturing
MC 433 Tool and Die Design
MC 434 Manufacturing Automation
MC 435 Production Management
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Engineering Management
Group A
Management and Organisations
Management process: Definition, planning organizing, directing, controlling, coordinating,
types of management.
Organisation Definition, planning, design and development, types of organizations.
Management planning and control: Classical, new classical and modern principles. General
Management, scientific management, engineering, management, systems management.
Planning: Procedures, resources and constraints, objectives, goals, policies and procedures.
Control: Setting of reference or standards, appraisal or evaluation, monitoring and
controlling, types of control.
Human resource planning and management, selection, recruitment, training, retraining, skill
development, competence development, promotion and career development, participative
management, trade unions, and collective bargaining,
Management of Physical Resources
Plant: site selection procedures, factors affecting selection. Layout-types and relative merits
and demerits, Maintenance-Objectives, different types of associated decisions, strategies for
effective maintenance, computer applications.
Material : Functions, objectives, planning and control including inventory models with or
without storage costs, price break ( excluding dynamic and probabilistic considerations).
Different classes of inventory. Material Requirement Planning (MRP).
Group B
Financial management: Introduction to standard forms of financial statements, i.e., balance-
sheet, profit and loss, and income statement. Fixed and current asset items. Fixed and current
liability items. Linkage of two successive balance-sheets through income or profit and loss
statement. Funds flow statement. Financial ratios and their implications.
Managerial economics: Concepts, theory of production, marginal productivity and cost.
Introduction to theory of firm.
Quality management: Quality definition, quality planning, quality control and quality
management, Total quality management, ISO 9000 systems, simple quality control
techniques like control charts and acceptance sampling.
Marketing management consumer behaviour, market research, product design and
development pricing and promotion.
Project management: Introduction. Concept of a project, project management concepts,
project simulation, cost or project and means of financing, economic evaluation criteria of the
project, project implementation, project planning, scheduling and monitoring, project control
(PERT, CPM techniques including crashing). Project evaluation.
Information technology and management. Role of information, management information
system and decision support system, Information technology-introduction to e-business, e-
commerce and integration tools like enterprise resource planning (ERP).
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Mechanics of Solids
Group A
Review of free body diagrams; Analysis of deformation under axial loading. Simple shear
and pressure.
Statically determinate and indeterminate cases. Forces and moments transmitted by simple
beams.
Mechanics of deformable solids, stress and strain, transformation of stress and, strain, Mohr
circle diagram, equilibrium equations and compatibility conditions.
Material properties and their testing: Elastic, inelastic, plastic and viscoelastic material
behaviour. Fatigue and creep. Concepts of ductility, hardness, toughness and their
quantification. Tensile and impact tests.
Group B
Stress-strain-temperature relations. Generalised Hooke's law and thermal strains.
Equations of elasticity. Solutions of thin and thick cylinders and rotating disks.
Stresses in beams. Torsion of circular shafts and thin walled sections. Deflection of helical
springs.
Yield criteria, energy methods, basic elasticity equations.
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Mechanics of Fluids
Group A
Properties and classifications of fluids. Fluids statics, buoyancy.
Scalar and vector fields, Reynolds transport theorem.
Continuity and momentum equations, momentum theorem, Bernoulli’s equation and their
applications.
Constitutive relation for a Newtonian fluid. Navier Stokes equations, exact solutions for flow
between parallel plates, rotating cylinders, Couette flow and Poiseuille flow.
Application of viscous flows through pipes, Correlation of friction factor.
Laminar boundary layer, boundary layer equations Blasius solution over a flat plate, wall
shear stress. boundary layer thickness, boundary layer control.
Group B
Separation; momentum integral method.
Turbulent flow; mixing length models; Skin friction coefficient in a turbulent boundary layer.
Compressibility flow; Nozzles and diffusers; Shocks; Effect of friction and heat transfer.
Potential flows.
Experimental methods for flow and velocity measurements.
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Manufacturing Technology
Group A
Introduction. Manufacturing cycle. Manufacturing processes and their selection. Engineering
materials and their selection.
Casting: Patterns, gating system design, riser design, product design, defects, inspection
techniques. Other casting processes: investment casting, die casting, centrifugal casting and
continuous casting. Basic design considerations in casting.
Metal forming: Plastic deformation, hot and cold working. Forming operations-rolling,
extrusion, drawing processes, sheet metal operations, load estimations for homogeneous
deformation. Sheet metal die design. High velocity forming processes.
Heat treatment processes.
Processing of plastics: Extrusion, injection moulding, blow moulding, rational moulding,
thermo-forming and compression moulding. Basic design considerations, rapid prototyping,
stereo lithography technique.
Powder metallurgy processing: Production of metal powders, compaction and sintering
processes. .
Group B
Metal cutting: Tool .materials, tool geometry and nomenclature in ASA, ORS and NRS,
cutting fluids, single and multipoint cutting operations, production of gears and screw
threads, grinding and finishing processes, specification of grinding wheels.
Machine tools: Primary and secondary dnves, guideway and slideways, structure.
Introduction to NC, CNC and DNC machining.
New machining methods: Process capabilities and limitations of AJM, USM, WJM, ECM,
ECG, EDM, EBM and LBM processes.
Joining processes: Fusion welding processes, heat affected zone, testing of welded joints,
solid state welding processes, brazing and soldering. Basic design considerations in welding.
Process selection. Adhesive bonding. Mechanical fastening processes.
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Turbomachinery
Group A
Positive displacement and turbo machines. Basic principles of rotodynamic machines.
Efficiency of turbo machines.
Flow through nozzles and blade passages: Steady flow through nozzles, isentropic flow;
Effect of friction in flow passages; Converging-diverging nozzles; Flow of wet steam through
nozzles; Diffusers.
Steam and gas turbines. Pressure and velocity compounding; Velocity diagrams; Degree of
reaction; Utilisation factor; Reaction blanding; Analysis of flow through turbo machines;
Energy equation; Momentum equation.
Fluid dynamic consideration: Theoretically obtainable work head; Profile losses. Clearance
and leakage losses. Windage losses. Partial admission losses. Flow deviation, Diffuser
performance. Design of blade passages. Cavitation in turbo machines.
Group B
Centrifugal compressors: Description and operation, energy transfer and relations, losses,
adiabatic efficiency, effect of compressibility, performance characteristics, pressure
coefficient, slip factor, surging, surge lines and stall line.
Axial compressor: Introduction, stage characteristics, blade efficiency, design coefficients,
blade loading, cascade characteristics, three-dimensional flow considerations, supersonic
axial flow compressor, performance characteristics.
Wind turbines: Power, energy and torque of wind turbines, coefficient of performance,
energy production and capacity factor, turbine shaft power, torque at variable speeds.
Hydraulic turbomachines: Hydraulic turbines (Pelton wheel and Kaplan turbines), centrifugal
and axial flow pumps, characteristics of hydraulic turbomachines.
Fans: Classification, fan laws.
Power transmitting turbomachines; Hydraulic coupling; Torque converters.
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Manufacturing Science
Group A
Deformation of metals, stress-strain curves, temperature and strain rate effects, ductility and
toughness, plane-strain deformation, mechanism of plastic deformation, control of material
properties—alloying and heat treatment.
Sand casting: Pattern materials and allowances, moulding materials, properties ol moulding
sand, effects of moulding ingredients on mould properties, estimation of pouring time,
mechanism of solidification, rate of solidification in an insulating mould, riser design and
placement, residual stresses.
Elements of plasticity—yield criteria and flow rule, plastic instability. Analysis of forming
processes—forging, rolling, extrusion, wire and strip drawing, using slab method, deep
drawing, blanking and piercing. Lubrication and friction in metal forming.
Group B
Metal cutting: Mechanics of orthogonal cutting, chip formation in turning, shaping, planning,
milling and drilling, evaluation of surface roughness in machining, heat generation,
estimation of average tool temperature, tool wear mechanism and tool life testing, variables
affecting tool life machining economics—estimation of cost and optimum cutting conditions.
Metal grinding: Basic mechanics of grinding process, forces and specific energy, grinding
temperature—heat sources and estimation of average temperature, wheel wear mechanism,
estimation of surface roughness.
Non-conventional machining: Classification of processes, mechanism of material removal
and effects of process parameters in AJM, USM, ECM, EDM, LBM, EBM and PAM.
Welding and allied processes: Bonding process in welding, principles of solid-state welding,
fusion welding, soldering and brazing, effects of process parameters, metallurgy of welding
stress distribution and heat affected zone.
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Manufacturing Automation
Group A
Definition of automation, reasons for automating, pros and cons of automation.
Fundamentals of manufacturing and automation: Manufacturing operations and automation
strategies, production economics.
High volume production systems: Detroit type automation, analysis of automated flow lines,
assembly and line balancing, automated assembly systems.
Numerical control production systems: CNC, DNC and adaptive control.
Group B
Industrial robots: Robotics technology, robot applications.
Material handling and storage: Automated materials handling, automated storage and
retrieval systems.
Flexible manufacturing systems (FMS): FMS workstations, material handling and storage
systems, computer control systems, planning the FMS, analysis methods for FMS,
applications and benefits.
Automated inspection and testing: Inspection and testing, statistical quality control,
automated inspection principles and methods, sensor technologies for automated inspection,
coordinate measuring machines, other contact inspection methods, machine vision and other
optical inspection methods, and non-contact inspection methods.
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Production Management
Group A
Introduction. Concept of management, concept of a system, production system, production
functions.
Organisation fundamentals. Guidelines for good practice, organisation structures,
organisation charts, span of control, number of levels, number of executives, management
functions.
Production economics: Kinds of costs, evaluation of capital investments. Capital budgeting,
break-even analysis, make or buy decisions, evaluation of alternatives, discounted cash flow,
equivalent comparison methods, depreciation.
Aggregate planning. Planning time horizons, inputs to aggregate planning systems, single and
multistage aggregate planning systems, decision processes for aggregate planning—graphical
method, linear decision rule, and linear programming method-Demand management. Time
span for forecasts, forecasting system, forecasting methods-time series, casual and predictive
forecasting methods, selection of a forecasting method.
Group B
Scheduling. Scheduling process scheduling for a multistage production system, sequencing
production operations, Johnson's rule.
Facilities management. Plant location—factors influencing plant location, cost factors, plant
location decision process, selection of a location for new facilities, evaluation of alternative
regions and sub-regions. Plant layout-objectives, decision process, types of layouts,
comparison of layouts. Line balancing and sequence analysis concepts. Materials handling-
devices for materials handling, basic considerations in the selection of materials handling
system.
Human factor engineering: Methods analysis and works measurement, methods study,
process analysis, operation process chart, operator process chart, motion study, principles of
motion economy, motion analysis. Time study-types of studies, procedure for job time study,
physical environment.
Quality management: Three aspects of quality, functional responsibility for quality in a
manufacturing system, economics of quality assurance, quality control, QC decision
variables, process control, control charts, acceptance sampling, single, double and sequential
sampling plans, concept of total quality control (TQC).
Maintenance management: Maintenance functions, concept of reliability engineering,
reliability improvement, preventive maintenance, preventive maintenance policy, repair
policy, replacement decisions, queuing theory and its applications in maintenance.
Introduction to PERT/CPM.
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