Foundry and Forging Lab Syllabus for VTU BE/B.Tech Mechanical Engineering third sem complete syllabus covered here. This will help you understand complete curriculum along with details such as exam marks and duration. The details are as follows.
| Subject Code | 15MEL38A | IA Marks | 20 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Number of Lecture Hours/Week | 01 | Exam Marks | 80 |
| No of Practical Hours / Week | 02 | Exam Hours | 3 |
CREDITS – 02
COURSE OBJECTIVES
- To provide an insight into different sand preparation and foundry equipment’s.
- To provide an insight into different forging tools and equipment’s.
- To provide training to students to enhance their practical skills.
- To practically demonstrate precautions to be taken during casting and hot working.
- To develop team qualities and ethical principles.
COURSE OUTCOMES
Students will be able to
- Demonstrate various skills of sand preparation, molding.
- Demonstrate various skills of forging operations.
- Work as a team keeping up ethical principles.
PART A
1. Testing of Molding sand and Core sand
Preparation of sand specimens and conduction of the following tests:
PART B
2. Foundry Practice
- Use of foundry tools and other equipment’s.
- Preparation of molding sand mixture.
- Preparation of green sand molds using two molding boxes kept ready for pouring.
- Using patterns (Single piece pattern and Split pattern)
- Without patterns.
- Incorporating core in the mold. (Core boxes).
- Preparation of one casting (Aluminum or cast iron-Demonstration only)
PART C
3. Forging Operations : Use of forging tools and other equipment’s
• Calculation of length of the raw material required to prepare the model considering scale loss.
• Preparing minimum three forged models involving upsetting, drawing and bending operations.
- Demonstration of forging model using Power Hammer.
Question paper pattern: - One question is to be set from Part-A 15 Marks
- One question is to be set from either Part-B or Part-C 35 Marks
- Calculation of length of the raw material required for forging model is compulsory irrespective of the student
- preparing part-B or part-C model
- Calculation of length for Forging 10 Marks
- Viva – Voce 20 Marks
Total 20 Marks
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