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MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SYLLABUS POST OF FOREST RANGE OFFICERS

MECHANICAL ENGINEERING SYLLABUS


STATICS:  Simple applications of equilibrium equations.

DYNAMICS:  Simple applications of equations of motion, work, energy and power.

THEORY OF MACHINES:  Simple examples of kinematic chains and their inversions.
Different types of gears, bearings, governors, flywheels and their functions.
Static and dynamic balancing of rigid rotors.
Simple vibration analysis of bars and shafts.
Linear automatic control systems.

MECHANICS OF SOLIDS:    Stress,  strain  and  Hookes  Law.    Shear  and  bending  moments  in
beams.  Simple bending and torsion of beams, springs and thin walled cylinders.  Elementary
concepts of elastic stability, mechanical properties and material testing.

MANUFACTURING SCIENCE:  Mechanics of metal cutting, tool life, economics of machining,
cutting  tool  materials.    Basic  types  of  machine  tool  and  their  processes.    Automatic  machine
tools,  transfer  lines.    Metal  forming  processes  and  machines shearing,  drawing,  spinning,
rolling,  forging,  extrusion.    Types  of  casting  and  welding  methods.    Power  metallurgy  and
processing of plastics.

 MANUFACTURING MANAGEMENT:    Methods  and  time  study,  motion  economy  and  work
space  design,  operation  and  flow  process  charts.    Cost  estimation,  break even  analysis. 
Location  and  layout  of  plants,  material  handling.   Capital  budgeting,  job  shop  and  mass
production, scheduling, dispatching, Routing, Inventory.

THERMODYNAMICS:  Basic concepts, definitions and laws heat, work and temperature, Zeroth
law,  temperature  scales,  behaviour  of  pure  substances,  equations  of  state,  first  law  and  its
corollaries, second law and its corollaries.  Analysis of air standard power cycles, carnot, otto,
diesel,  brayton  cycles.    Vapour  power  cycles,  Rankine  reheat  and  regenerative  cycles,
Refrigeration cycles Bell Coleman, Vapour absorption and Vapour compression cycle analysis,
open and closed cycle gas turbine with inter cooling, reheating.

ENERGY  CONVERSION: 
   Flow  of  steam  through  nozzles,  critical  pressure  ratio,  shock
formation and its effect.  Steam generators, mountings and accessories.  Impulse and reaction
turbines elements and layout of thermal power plants.
Hydraulic turbines and pumps, specific speed, layout of hydraulic power plants.
Introduction to nuclear reactors and power plants, handling of nuclear waste.

REFRIGERATION  AND  AIR CONDITIONING:    Refrigeration  equipment  and  operation  and
maintenance,  refrigerants,  principles  of  air  conditioning,  psychrometric  chart,  comfort  zones,
humidification and dehumidification.

FLUID  MECHANICS:    Hydrostatics,  continuity  equation,  Bernoulli’s  theorem,  flow  through
pipes, discharge measurement, laminar and turbulent flow, boundary layer concept.







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