Annexure-III

Syllabus for interviews for admission in various PG programs of Mechanical

Engineering Department.
The research at Mechanical Engineering Department, IIT Delhi is classified into following four
broad areas:
Design Engineering
Thermal Engineering
Production Engineering
Industrial Engineering

Detailed syllabus for Design, Thermal, Production and Industrial engineering components

Design Engineering:
Engineering Mechanics: Free-body diagrams and equilibrium; trusses and frames; virtual
work; kinematics and dynamics of particles and of rigid bodies in plane motion; impulse and
momentum (linear and angular) and energy formulations, collisions.
Mechanics of Materials: Stress and strain, elastic constants, Poisson's ratio; circle for
planestress and plane strain; thin cylinders; shear force and bending moment diagrams; bending
and shear
energy methods;thermal stresses; strain gauges and rosettes; testing of materials with universal
testing machine; testing of hardness and impact strength.
Theory of Machines: Displacement, velocity and acceleration analysis of plane mechanisms;
dynamic analysis of linkages; cams; gears and gear trains; flywheels and governors; balancing
of reciprocating and rotating masses; gyroscope.
Vibrations: Free and forced vibration of single degree of freedom systems, effect of damping;
vibration isolation; resonance; critical speeds of shafts.
Machine Design: Design for static and dynamic loading; failure theories; fatigue strength and
the S-N diagram; principles of the design of machine elements such as bolted, riveted and welded
joints;shafts, gears, rolling and sliding contact bearings, brakes and clutches, springs.
Fundamentals of Finite Element Analysis
Fundamentals of Tribology and Lubrication

Thermal Engineering:
Fluid Mechanics: Fluid properties; fluid statics, manometry, buoyancy, forces on submerged
bodies, stability of floating bodies; control-volume analysis of mass, momentum and energy;
fluid
dimensional analysis; viscous flow of incompressible fluids, boundary layer, elementary
turbulent flow, flow through pipes, head losses in
pipes, bends and fittings.
Heat-Transfer: Modes of heat transfer; one dimensional heat conduction, resistance concept
and electrical analogy, heat transfer through fins; unsteady heat conduction, lumped parameter
system, Heisler's charts; thermal boundary layer, dimensionless parameters in free and forced
convective heat transfer, heat transfer correlations for flow over flat plates and through pipes,
effect of turbulence; heat exchanger performance, LMTD and NTU methods; radiative heat
transfer, Stefan-Boltzmann law, Wien's
displacement law, black and grey surfaces, view factors, radiation network analysis.
Thermodynamics: Thermodynamic systems and processes; properties of pure substances,
behaviour of ideal and real gases; zeroth and first laws of thermodynamics, calculation of work
andheat in various processes; second law of thermodynamics; thermodynamic property charts and
tables,availability and irreversibility; thermodynamic 14
relations.
Applications: Power Engineering: Air and gas compressors; vapour and gas power cycles,
concepts of regeneration and reheat. I.C. Engines: Air-standard Otto, Diesel and dual cycles.
Refrigeration and air-conditioning: Vapour and gas refrigeration and heat pump cycles;properties
of moist air, psychrometric chart, basic psychrometric processes. Turbomachinery: Impulse and
reaction principles, velocity diagrams, Pelton-wheel, Francis and Kaplan turbines.

Production Engineering:
Casting: types of casting processes and applications; patterns types and materials; allowances;
moulds and cores materials, making, and testing; casting techniques of cast iron, steels and
nonferrous metals and alloys; analysis of solidification and microstructure
development; design of gating and riser; origin of defects.
Metal Forming: Stress-strain relations in elastic and plastic deformation; concept of flow stress;
hot and cold working forging, rolling, extrusion and wire drawing; sheet metal working
processes blanking, bending and deep drawing; ideal work and slab analysis.
origin of metal working defects.
Joining of materials: Principles of fusion welding processes (manual metal arc, MIG, TIG,
plasmaarc, submerged arc welding processes) different heat sources (flame, arc, resistive, laser,
electron beam), and heat transfer and associated losses, flux application, feeding of filler rod;
Principles of solid-state welding processes (friction, explosive welding, ultrasonic welding
processes); Principles of adhesive, brazing and soldering
processes; Origins of welding defects.
Powder processing: Production of metal/ceramic powders, compaction and sintering of metals
andceramic powders.
Polymers and Composites: Plastic processing injection, compression and blow molding,
extrusion, calendaring and thermoforming; molding of composites.
Machine Tools and Machining: Basic machine tools like centre lathe, milling machine, and
drilling machine construction and kinematics; machining processes - turning, taper turning,
thread cutting, drilling, boring, milling, gear cutting, thread production, grinding; geometry of
single point cutting tools, chip formation, cutting forces, specific cutting energy and power
analysis; basis of selection of machining parameters; tool materials,
tool wear and tool life, economics of machining, thermal aspects of machining, cutting fluids,
machinability; Jigs and fixtures principles,
applications, and design
Non-traditional Manufacturing: Principles, applications, effect of process parameters on MRR
and product quality of non-traditional machining processes USM, AJM, WJM, AWJM, EDM
and Wirecut EDM, LBM, EBM, PAM, CHM, ECM.
Computer Integrated Manufacturing: Basic concepts of CAD geometric modeling,
CAM
CNC and robotics configurations, drives and controls, Group Technology
andits applications CAPP, cellular manufacturing and FMS.
Metrology and Inspection: Limits, fits, and tolerances, gauge design, interchangeability,
selective assembly; linear, angular, and form measurements (straightness, squareness, flatness,
roundness, andcylindricity) by mechanical and optical methods; inspection of screw threads and
gears; surface finish measurement by contact and non-contact methods;
tolerance analysis in manufacturing and assembly.
Quality management: Quality concept and costs; quality assurance; statistical quality control,
acceptance sampling, zero defects, six sigma; total quality management; ISO 9000.
Reliability and Maintenance: Reliability, availability and maintainability; distribution of
failure and repair times; determination of MTBF and MTTR, reliability models; determination
of system reliability; preventive maintenance and replacement

Industrial Engineering:
Probability & Statistics: Definition and basic rules of Probability, Random Variables & their
distributions (pdf, cdf, expectation etc), Key R1a5ndom Variables such as Gaussian, Exponential,
Poisson, Measures of central tendency such as Mean-Median-Mode.
Operations research: Basic linear algebra; linear programming problem formulation,
simplex method, duality and sensitivity analysis; transportation and assignment models;
network flow models; basic concepts and methods of nonlinear optimization; dynamic
programming; simulation manufacturing applications.
Production control: Forecasting techniques causal and time series models, moving average,
exponential smoothing, trend and seasonality; aggregate production planning; master
production scheduling; MRP and MRP-II; routing, scheduling and priority dispatching; Push
and pull production systems, concept of JIT manufacturing system; Logistics, distribution, and
supply chain management; Inventory functions, costs, classifications, deterministic inventory
models, quantity discount; perpetual and periodic inventory control systems.