Books for mechanical engineering students - List 2

Hi friends,

This is the continuation of books list for mechanical engineering. As I am pursuing mechanical engineering, I am referring different books and then I am suggesting them here. So it took some time for me. I thought that the reading material provided for various subjects in NPTEL is enough to know the basics and to fulfil the requirements of a B Tech degree, but if you want to explore more or if you are unable to access the NPTEL try to buy a good book.

Design of Machine Elements:

Also called machine design. Machine design is one of the streams of ME with proliferating future. Mechanics of solids and engineering mechanics are the prerequisites for this subject. In this subject we will discuss about different failure phenomenon and how to design various components of machinery for a safe and reliable operation without failure.

AUTHOR	BOOK NAME	REMARKS
RICHARD G. BUDYNAS & J.KEITH NISBETT	Shigley’s Mechanical engineering design 9ed	Internationally reputed book for ME design
R S Khurmi and J K Gupta	A textbook of Machine Design	Easy to read and understand
V B Bandari	Design of Machine Elements 3ed	Enough for B Tech level
V B Bandari	Objective type questions for Design of Machine elements (soft copy)	Bits useful for competitive exams
M. F. Spotts	Design of Machine Elements	Reference
A. H. Burr and J. B. Cheatham,.	Mechanical Analysis and Design	reference

Internal combustion engines:

“Internal combustion engines” is the heart of automobile engineering. The mechanical engineering students should know the fundamental operations of the IC engines so that they can design or invent in this field.

AUTHOR	BOOK NAME	REMARKS
V Ganesan	Internal combustion engines 4e	Study guide for ICE
M L Mathur and R P Sharma	Internal combustion engines
Willard W. Pulkrabek	Engineering fundamentals of Internal combustion engines	Study guide for ICE
John B Heywood	Internal combustion engine fundamentals	Somewhat higher view of ICE
R K Rajput	A text book of internal combustion engines

Refrigeration and air conditioning

Refrigeration and air conditioning, as all knows, is most involved in our lives today. There is lot of research going on to invent/discover environment friendly refrigerants for RAC and exergo economical systems for RAC. First of all, as mechanical engineers, we are supposed to learn these processes and developments. In this subject, we deal with different components of industrial and domestic RAC systems and design and development of those components for overall improvement in this field.

Material:

1.       Refrigeration and air conditioning by C P Arora.

2.       NPTEL  IIT Kharagpur reading material by Prof. M Ramgopal.

Friends, I have seen only this material. If you have any suggestions please let everyone know through your comment.

Metrology

Metrology is the science of measurement and standardisation.  This is not actually a subject of B.Tech. Here in B Tech we are supposed to learn some instruments which are used for basic measurements.  Tolerances, Limits and fits are also included in this subject.

AUTHOR	BOOK NAME	REMARKS
Alexius J Hebra	Physics of Metrology
K J Hume and G H Sharp	Practical metrology
Mahajan	Metrology

NPTEL IIT MADRAS: Prof. Shunmugam M. S and Prof. S.P. Venkateshan reading materials and videos.

Select a book as per your syllabus.

Industrial automation

With the advancement of control systems and advanced computer simulation software, the automation is playing a crucial role in Industries now. For large scale industries it reduces cost of production and improves precision in manufacturing. Industrial robots serve this purpose. Knowing the basics of automation is intended for mechanical engineering students of BE/BTech.

AUTHOR	BOOK NAME	REMARKS
Mikell P.Groover	Automation Production Systems and Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CAD/CAM

Nothing to introduce you about CAD/CAM. In this computer era, this electronic device is helping us (ME people) a lot to cope with the complex system design and development.  Computer Integrated Manufacturing is divided into CAD (Computer aided drafting), CAM (Computer aided manufacturing) and CAPP (Computer Aided Process Planning). We (ME people) are supposed to learn how drafting software works and how to use them for different applications.

AUTHOR	BOOK NAME	REMARKS
Donald D Hearn & M Paul Baker	Computer Graphics (C version) 2ed	Deals with  graphics algorithms

Friends,

For CAD/CAM, the video/reading material from NPTEL (Prof. P.V. Madhusudan Rao
Prof. Anoop Chawla IIT Delhi) is very much useful.

 If you have any book, that you think helpful, please make others know through comment.

Operational research

As a part of industrial management, we (ME students) should learn the OR models and techniques. OR now-a-days has become a part of almost all disciplines of study. Optimization techniques are dealt in this subject.

Material:

1.       NPTEL IIT MADRAS  Advanced OR by Prof. G Srinivasan

2.       Operations research techniques for management  by V K Kapur

3.       Operations research, An introduction 8/E by Taha

Finally, students from other branches can also interact through comments to suggest books for your respective branches of engineering/science.

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