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NIT, Srinagar PhD Entrance Exam Mechanical Engineering syllabus

Thermodynamics

Zeroth law, First law & Second law of thermodynamics, air & vapor power cycles, nozzles, boilers, steam turbines,
compressors, refrigeration and air-conditioning, internal combustion engines, gas turbines

Theory of Machines

Kinematics & kinetics of particles, lower pairs & higher pairs, mechanisms and DOF, inversions, velocity and
acceleration analysis, instantaneous centre, governors, flywheels, gears & cams, torsional vibrations, various types of
damping, forced harmonic vibration

Mechanics of Materials

Free body diagrams, section forces in beams, analysis of stress and strain, pressure vessels, mechanical properties of
solids, symmetric & unsymmetrical beam bending, theories of elastic failure, columns, torsion of circular shafts, strain
energy due to normal and shear stresses, castigliano's theorem, complementary energy theorem, slopes and deflections,
theories of failure, stresses in hollow and solid discs, stresses in rotating disc of constant thickness, closed coiled
helical springs, leaf springs, conical springs,

Fluid Mechanics & Hydraulic Machinery

Fluid at rest, manometers, hydrostatic pressure thrusts, buoyancy, flotation, stability, scalar and velocity fields, flow
field and description of fluid motion, Continuity equation, Momentum equation, energy equation, Euler’s equation,
Bernoulli equation, Navier-stokes equation, boundary layer equations, momentum-integral equation of boundary layer,
Turbulent flow, Work output and efficiency, water turbines, pumps, dimensional analysis

Heat Transfer

Fourier’s law of heat conduction, three dimensional heat conduction equation in Cartesian, cylindrical and spherical
coordinates, heat conduction with heat generation, fins, unsteady heat conduction with negligible internal temperature
gradients, free and forced convection, thermal radiation, boiling heat transfer

Machine Design

Introduction to design, objectives of design, design process, concept of factor of safety in design, design of riveted
joints, welded joints, screw jack, design of brakes, gear design, bearing design, Various types of loading in mechanical
systems, stress concentration, endurance limit, SN curves and fatigue, manufacturing consideration in design,
standardization of design of friction elements, design of internal combustion engine components, introduction to
fracture mechanics based design

Manufacturing Technology

Introduction to basic manufacturing processes and engineering materials, casting technologies, introduction to metal
cutting, machine processes and machine tools, metal forming, hot working and cold working, forging, extrusion, presswork
operations, explosive forming, electromagnetic forming, fabrication of composites, welding, resistance welding,
ultrasonic welding, laser beam welding, defects in welding

Material science

Classification of materials, modern and advanced materials, primary and secondary bonds and energy related concepts,
structure of metals and ceramics, concept of unit cell and lattice arrangements, ceramic crystals and density
computations, crystal systems, polycrystalline materials, and single crystalline material, atomic densities (linear and
planar), x-ray diffraction, diffusion mechanism, deformation and strengthening mechanisms, phase diagrams

Industrial Engineering

Productivity, work study, facility layout & location, material management & its techniques, SQC, techniques of
operation research

Automatic Control

Open and closed loop systems, servo-mechanisms, block diagram and transfer functions, system response, first and
second order systems, response to step and pulse, ramp and sinusoidal inputs, modes of control, stability of control
systems, Routhe's criteria, frequency response analysis, Bode and Nyquist stability criteria

Instrumentation

Generalized measurement system, standards, calibration, uncertainty, errors, Hydraulic and pneumatic load cells,
instruments for high, mid and low pressure measurement, flow measuring devices, temperature sensing techniques

Mathematics

Laplace transforms, numerical Methods, statistics and probability, complex variables, ordinary and partial differential
equations, complex variables

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