DETAILED SYLLABUS

Course Credit Hours Contact Total Periods

Code (Th-Pr) Hrs/Week Allocated
Manufacturing Processes I
(Th-Pr) (Th-Pr)
ME 340 (3-0) (3-0) (60-0)

Prerequisites: ME 321 or concurrently.

Recommended Text Books:

S. No. Title Authors Assigned

Code
1 Manufacturing process for Engineering S.Kalpakjian KAL
Materials
2 Manufacturing Technology (part I & II) R.L.Timings TIM
3 Materials and processes in Manufacturing P.Degarmo DEG
4 Manufacturing Processes Amstead & Begeman AMS

Topics Covered:

No. Topics Text

Book
1 Introduction to manufacturing processes: Design concepts, DEG
selection of material & processes, assembly, product quality, KAL
types of manufacturing, automation concepts. Classification of
materials. Nature and properties of material.
2 Jigs and Fixtures: Design principle, elements of jigs, locating DEG
and clamping devices
3 Joining Processes & Equipment: Temporary and permanent AMS,
fastening methods, soldering and brazing, plastic and fusion DEG
welding, gas welding, processes of resistance welding, electric
arc welding processes, advance welding techniques.
4 Heat Treatment: Equilibrium diagrams, iron-iron carbide and AMS,
TTT diagram, process of heat treatment like annealing, DEG
normalizing, tempering, hardening etc.
5 Classification of Forming & Shaping Processes and AMS,
Equipment: Bulk deformation process, recrystallization, grain KAL,
formation, types of rolling, forging and its types, extrusion, DEG
pipe and tube manufacturing, drawing, hot spinning.
6 Sheet Metal Forming: Sheet metal forming, Drawing of AMS,
wires, rod & tubes, seamless tubing, stretch forming, squeezing, KAL,
bending, shearing, hobbing, shot peening, metal spinning, cold DEG
extrusion, impact extrusion and press work. HERF.
7 Metal Casting Processes & Equipment: Foundry techniques, DEG,
types of sand casting, molding procedures, types of patterns and AMS
their allowances, sand testing, cores and core making, pouring
and cleaning castings, special casting processes, die casting,
permanent mold casting, centrifugal casting, investment
casting, shell molding process.
8 Forming & Shaping of Plastics & Composite Materials: AMS,
Polymerization, plastic materials and their properties, types of KAL
plastics, additives of plastics, compounding and performing,
compression molding, transfer molding, injection molding, jet
molding, extruding, rotational molding, blow molding, potting
and embedding thermoforming, reinforced plastics, fiber glass.