UPPSC AE Mechanical Engineering Syllabus 2020

UPPSC AE Mechanical Syllabus 2020


Paper 1: Syllabus

  1.  Engineering Mechanics
    • Analysis of force systems, friction, centroid, and center of gravity, trusses, and beams,
      principle of virtual work, kinematics, and kinetics of particle, kinematics, and kinetics of rigid bodies.
  2. Mechanism and Machines
    • Velocity and acceleration of links, cams and followers gears and gear trains clutches, belt
      drives, brakes, and dynamometers, Flywheel, and governors, balancing of rotating and
      reciprocating masses, balancing of multi-cylinder engines, Free and forced vibration,
      damped vibration, whirling of shafts.
  3. Mechanics of Solids
    • Stresses and strains, compound stresses strains, Torsion of circular shafts, stresses and
      deflections in beams unsymmetrical bending, curved beams, Thin and thick cylinders and
      spheres, Buckling of columns, Energy methods, helical, and leaf springs.
  4. Design of Machine Elements
    • Design for Static and dynamic loading, Theories of failure, fatigue principles of design of
      riveted, welded and bolted joints, shafts, springs, bearings, brakes, clutches, and flywheels.
  5. Engineering Materials
    • Crystal systems and crystallography, crystal imperfections, Alloys, and phase diagrams,
      Heat treatment, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and alloys, mechanical properties, and testing.
  6. Manufacturing
    • Metal casting, metal forming, metal joining, Mechanics of metal cutting, machining and
      machine tool operations, unconventional machining methods limits, fits and tolerances,
      inspection: Surface roughness, comparators, computer integrated manufacturing,
      Flexible manufacturing systems, jigs, and fixtures.
  7. Industrial Engineering
    • Production, planning and control, inventory control and operation, research, CPM and
      PERT.
  8. Mechatronics and Robotic
    • Microprocessors and microcontrollers, Architecture, Programming, Computer interfacing
      Programmable logic controller, sensors and actuators, Piezoelectric accelerometers, Hall
      effect sensors, optical encoder, resolver, Inductosyn, Pneumatic, and Hydraulic Actuators,
      stepper motor, control system, mathematical modeling, control signals, controllability and
      observability, Robotics: Robot classification, robot specification. Notation: Direct and
      inverse kinematics homogeneous co-ordinates and arm equation of four-axis SCARA Robot.

Paper 2: Syllabus

  1. Thermodynamics
    • Thermodynamic systems and processes, properties of pure substances, concepts and
      applications of the zeroth, first and the second law of thermodynamics, entropy, availability and irreversibility, detailed analysis of thermodynamic cycles, ideal and real gases, fuels and combustion.
  2. Fluid Mechanics
    • Basic concepts and properties of fluids, manometry, fluid statics, buoyancy, equations of motion, Bernoulli's equation and applications, Viscous flow of incompressible fluids, laminar and turbulent flows, Flow through pipes and head losses in pipes, dimensional analysis, Forces on immersed bodies and boundary layer over a flat plate, isentropic and adiabatic flows, normal shock waves.
  3. Heat Transfer
    • Modes of heat transfer, steady and unsteady heat conduction, thermocouple time constant, critical thickness of insulation, heat transfer from fins, momentum, and energy equations for boundary layer flow on a flat plate. Free and forced convection, radiation heat transfer, Stefan-Boltzmann law, shape factor, black and grey body radiation heat exchange, boiling and condensation, heat exchanger analysis, LMTD, and NTU – effectiveness methods.
  4. Energy conversion
    • SI and CI engines, performance characteristics and testing of IC engines, combustion phenomena in SI and CI engines, carburetion and fuel injection systems, emissions, and emission control. Reciprocating and rotary pumps, Pelton wheel, Francis and Kaplan turbines, velocity diagrams impulse and reaction principles steam and gas turbines; Rankine and Brayton cycles with regeneration and reheat, high-pressure boilers, draft, condensers. Unconventional power systems, including nuclear, MHD, biomass, wind and tidal systems, utilization of solar energy; Reciprocating and rotary compressors; theory and applications, Theory of propulsions, pulsejet and ramjet engines.
  5. Environmental control
    • Vapor compression, vapor absorption, steam jet, and air refrigeration systems, properties of refrigerant and their nomenclature, psychometrics properties and processes, psychrometric relations, use of a psychrometric chart, load estimation, supply air conditions, sensible heat factors, air conditioning system layout, comfort chart, comfort and industrial air conditioning.

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