11.
Heat treatment experiments such as annealing, normalizing, quenching and comparison of
hardness before and after heat treatment.
12. To perform nondestructive testing methods such as ultrasonic flaw detector
Text & Reference books:
1. Materials Science and Engineering: An Introduction by William D. Callister Jr., David G.
Rethwisch (Wiley India Pvt. Ltd.)
2. Materials Science and Engineering: A First Course by Raghavan V. (Prentice Hall of India)
3. Mechanical Metallurgy by George E. Dieter (McGraw Hill Education)
4. Elements of Material Science and Engineering by Lawrence H. Van Vlack (Pearson)
5. Material Science and Engineering – Smith, Hashemi and Moreno (McGraw Hill)
BME-208 Theory of Machines
Course category : PC
Pre-requisite Subject : NIL
Contact hours/week : Lecture: 3, Tutorial: 0, Practical: 2
Number of Credits : 4
Course Assessment : Continuous assessment through attendance, home assignments, quizzes,
methods practical work, record, viva voce and Minor test and One Major Theory &
Practical Examination
Course Objectives : To develop skills for analyzing linkages, cams, gears and other
mechanisms and to provide with fundamental knowledge of dynamics of
machines so that students can appreciate problems of dynamic force
balance.
Course Outcomes : Upon completion of this course, the student will demonstrate the ability
to:
1. Apply the graphical methods and analytical Computations involved in
the mechanisms to analyze the position, velocity and acceleration of a
mechanism.
2. Draw velocity and acceleration diagrams for cams and followers
executing various kinds of motions for various configuration of
followers.
3. Analyse the gyroscopic effects on disks, airplanes, stability of ships.
4. Select gear and gear trains for a particular application in automobile
and various industries employing gears as power transmission tools.
5. Mathematically model and analyze the effects of the static and
dynamic forces that mechanisms/machines may experience
commonly and work upon the control of fluctuations of energy
6. Solve the problems associated with the unbalance present in rotating
and reciprocating masses.
Topics Covered
UNIT-I: Velocity and Acceleration in Mechanism 9
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Introduction to Kinematic Links and Pairs, Inversion of Mechanism, Velocity of a Link, Relative
Velocity Method, Instantaneous Center Method, Kennedy’s Theorem for Three Centers, Acceleration
Diagram, Coriolis Component of Acceleration.
UNIT-II Cams and Gyroscope 9
Classification of Cams and Followers, Nomenclature, Types of Follower Motion, Generation of Cam
Profile with Uniform Velocity, SHM, Uniform Acceleration and Retardation, Cycloidal Motion of
The Follower.
Gyroscopic Motion Principles, Gyroscopic torque, Effect of gyroscopic couple on the stability of
aero planes & automobiles
UNIT-III Gear and Gear Trains 9
Types. Terminology, Fundamental Law of Gearing, Gear Profiles, Undercutting, Gear Trains:
Simple, Compound, Reverted and Epicyclic Gear Trains.
UNIT-IV Force Analysis and Balancing 9
Static and Dynamic Force Analysis-Static Force Analysis of Planar Mechanisms, Dynamic Force
Analysis Including Inertia and Frictional Forces of Planar Mechanisms, Turning Moment Diagram
for Engines and Speed Fluctuation, Flywheel. Balancing of Rotating and Reciprocating Masses-
Static Balance, Dynamic Balance, Balancing of Rotating Masses
List of Practical:
1. Study of simple linkage models/mechanisms
2. Study of inversions of four bar linkage
3. Study of inversions of single/double slider crank mechanisms
4. Experiments on friction
5. Experiment on gyroscope
6. Experiment on Gear trains
7. Experiment on Gears tooth profile, interference etc.
8. Experiment on static/dynamic balancing
Textbooks and References:
1. Kinematics & Dynamics of Machinery by R. L. Norton, McGraw Hill
2. Kinematics, Dynamics and Design of Machinery by K.J. Waldron & G. L. Kinzel, Wiley
3. Theory of Machines and Mechanisms by John J. Uicker, Jr. Gordon R. Pennock& Joseph E.
Shigley, Oxford University Press.
4. Theory of Machines by S.S. Ratan, Tata McGraw-Hill.
5. Theory of Machines by Thomas Bevan, CBS Publishers & Distributors.
6. Kinematics and Dynamics of Machines by George H. Martin, Overseas Press Pvt. Ltd., India
7. Theory of Mechanisms and Machines by Amitabha Ghosh &Asok Kumar Mallik, Affiliated
EastWest Press
BME-256 Software Applications for Mechanical Engineering
Course category : EF
Pre-requisite Subject : NIL
Contact hours/week : Lecture: 2, Tutorial: 0, Practical: 4
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