Mechanics of Machines detailed syllabus for Industrial Engineering & Management (IEM) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna University official website and presented for the IEM students. For course code, course name, number of credits for a course and other scheme related information, do visit full semester subjects post given below.
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Course Objectives:
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Unit I
KINEMATIC ANALYSIS IN SIMPLE MECHANISMS AND CAMS 9 Mechanisms – Terminology and definitions – kinematics inversions and analysis of 4 bar and slide crank chain – velocity and acceleration polygons – cams – classifications – displacement diagrams – layout of plate cam profiles.
Unit II
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Unit III
FRICTION ASPECTS IN MACHINE COMPONENTS 9 Surface contacts – Sliding and Rolling friction – Friction drives – Friction in screw threads – Friction clutches – Belt drives – Friction aspects in brakes.
Unit IV
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Unit V
BALANCING OF ROTATING MASSES AND VIBRATION 9 Static and Dynamic balancing – Balancing of revolving masses – Balancing machines – Free vibrations – natural Frequency – Damped Vibration – bending critical speed of simple shaft – Forced vibration – harmonic Forcing – Vibration isolation.
Course Outcomes:
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Text Books:
- Uicker, J.J., Pennock G.R and Shigley, J.E., Theory of Machines and Mechanisms, Oxford University Press, 2017.
Reference Books:
- Cleghorn. W. L., Nikolai Dechev, Mechanisms of Machines, Oxford University Press, 2015.
- Rao.J.S. and Dukkipati.R.V. Mechanism and Machine Theory, New Age International Pvt. Ltd., 2006.
- Rattan, S.S, Theory of Machines, McGraw-Hill Education Pvt. Ltd., 2014.
- Robert L. Norton, Kinematics and Dynamics of Machinery, Tata McGraw-Hill, 2009.
- Thomas Bevan, The Theory of Machines, Pearson Education Ltd., 2010
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