Automotive Materials, Components, Design and Testing detailed syllabus for Mechanical Engineering (Mech) for 2021 regulation curriculum has been taken from the Anna Universities official website and presented for the Mech 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.
For Mechanical Engineering 5th Sem scheme and its subjects, do visit Mech 5th Sem 2021 regulation scheme. For Professional Elective-I scheme and its subjects refer to Mech Professional Elective-I syllabus scheme. The detailed syllabus of automotive materials, components, design and testing is as follows.
Course Objectives:
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Unit I
FUNCTIONAL REQUIREMENTS OF ENGINE COMPONENTS AND SUITABLE MATERIALS 6 Functional requirements of engine components – Piston, piston pin, cylinder liner, connecting rod, crank shaft, valves, spring, engine block, cylinder head, and flywheel. Suitable materials for engine components.
Unit II
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Unit III
DESIGN OF CONNECTING ROD AND CRANK SHAFT 6 Design of connecting rod – Shank design – small end design – big end design – bolts design. Design of overhang crank shaft under bending and twisting – Crank pin design – Crank web design – Shaft design.
Unit IV
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Unit V
ENGINE TESTING 6 Engine test cycles – WLTC – WHSC – WHVC – NRTC – ISO 8178. Dynamometer – Chassis dynamometer -transient dynamometer. Emission measurement technologies and instruments – NOX – Smoke – Particulate matter – CO – CO2 – HC.-Particle counter
Experiments
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Course Outcomes:
At the end of the course the students would be able to
- Discuss the requirements of engine components and select suitable materials.
- Apply the concept of design to cylinder and piston components and solve problems.
- Apply the concept of design to Connecting rod and crank shaft and solve problems.
- Apply the concept of design to flywheel and valve train and solve problems.
- Discuss engine teste cycles, dynamometer and emission measurement technologies and instruments
Text Books:
- Khurmi. R.S. & Gupta. J.K., “A text book of Machine Design”, Eurasia Publishing House (Pvt) Ltd, 2001.
- The Automotive Chassis: Volume 1: Components Design (Mechanical Engineering Series) by Giancarlo Genta and Lorenzo Morello | 24 December 2019
Reference Books:
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For detailed syllabus of all the other subjects of Mechanical Engineering 5th Sem, visit Mech 5th Sem subject syllabuses for 2021 regulation.
For all Mechanical Engineering results, visit Anna University Mech all semester results direct link.