Indian Forest Service Mechanical Engineering Syllabus

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Mechanical Engineering

Paper I
1. Theory of Machines
Kinematic and dynamic analysis of planar mechanisms. Cams, Gears and gear trains,
Flywheels, Governors, Balancing of rigid rotors, Balancing of single and multicylinder
engines, Linear vibration analysis of mechnical systems (single degree and two degrees
of freedom), Critical speeds and whirling of shafts, Automatic Controls, Belts and
chain drives. Hydrodynamic bearings.

2. Mechanics of Solids :
Stress and strain in two dimensions. Principal stresses and strains, Mohr’s construction,
linear elastic materials, isotropy and an isotropy, Stress-strain relations, unlaxial
loading, thermal stresses. Beams : Banding moment and shear force diagrams, bending
stresses and deflection of beams, Shear stress distribution. Torsion of shafts, helical
springs. Combined stresses, Thick and thin walled pressure vessels. Struls and
columns, Strain energy concepts and theories of failure. Rotation discs. Shrink fits.
3. Enginerring Materials :
Basic concepts on structure of solids, Crystalline materials, Defects in crystalline
materials, Alloys and binary phase diagrams, structure and properties of common
engineering materials. Heat treatment of steels. Plastics, Ceramics and composite
Materials, common applications of various materials.

4. Manufacturing Science :
Marchant’s force analysis, Taylor’s tool life equation, machinability and machining
economics, Rigid, small and flexible automation, NC, CNC. Recent machining
methods- EDM, ECM and ultrasonics. Application of lasers and plasmas, analysis of
forming processes. High energy rate forming. Jigs, fixtures, tools and gauges,
Inspection of length, position, profile and surface finish.

5. Manufacturing management :
Production Planning and Control, Forecasting-Moving average, exponential
smoothing, Operations sheduling; assembly line balancing. Product development.
Breakeven analysis, Capacity planning. PERT and CPM.
Control Operations : Inventory control-ABC analysis. EOQ model. Materials
requirement planning. Job design, Job standards, work measurement, Quality
management-Quality control. Operations Research : Linear programming-Graphical
and Simplex methods. Transportation and assignment models. Single server queuing
model.
Value Engineering : Value analysis, for cost/value. Total quality management and
forecasting techniques. Project management.

6. ELEMENTS OF COMPUTATION :
Computer Organisation, Flow charting. Features of Common Computer Languages-
FORTRAN d Base III, Lotus 1-2-3 C and elementary programming.

PAPER-II
1. THERMODYNAMICS :
Basic concept. Open and closed systems, Applications of Thermodynamic Laws, Gas
equations, Clapeyron equation, Availability, Irreversibility and Tds relations.

2. I.C. Engines, Fuels and Combustion :
Spark lgnition and compression ignition engines, Four stroke engine and Two stroke
engines, mechanical, thermal and volumetric efficiency, Heat balance.
Combustion process in S.I. and C.I. engines, preignition detonation in S.I. engine
Diesel knock in C.I. engine. Choice of engine fuels, Octance and Cetane retings.
Alternate fuels Carburration and Fuel injection, Engine emissions and control. Solid,
liquid and gaseous fuels, stoichometric air requirements and excess air factor, fuel gas
analysis, higher and lower calorific values and their measurements.

3. HEAT TRANSFER, REFRIGERATION AND AIR CONDITIONING :
One and two dimensional heat conduction. Heat transfer from extended surfaces, heat
transfer by forced and free convection. Heat exchangers. Fundamentals for diffusive
and connective mass transfer, Radiation laws, heat exchange between black and non
balck surfaces, Network Analysis. Heat pump refrigeration cycles and systems,
Condensers, evaporators and expansion devices and controls. Properties and choice of
refrigerant, Refrigeration Systems and components, psychometrics, comfort indices,
cooling loading calculations, solar refrigeration.

4. TURBO-MACHINES AND POWER PLANTS :
Continuity, momentum and Energy Equations. Adiabatic and Isentropic flow, fanno
lines, Raylegh lines. Theory and design of axial flow turbines and compressors, Flow
through turbo-machine balde, cascades, centrifugal compressor. Dimensional analysis
and modelling. Selection of site for steam, hydro, nuclear and stand-by power plants,
selection base and peak load power plants Modern High pressure, High duty boilers,
Draft and dust removal equipment, Fuel and cooling water systems, heat balance,
station and palnt heat rates, operation and maintenance of various power plants,
preventive maintenance, economics of power generation.

Physics
Paper I
Section-A
1. Classical Mechanics
(a) Particle dynamics
Centre of mass and laboratory
coordinates, conservation of linear and angular momentum. The rocket equation.
Rutherford scattering, Galilean transformation, intertial and non-inertial frames,
rotating frames, centrifugal and Coriolis forces, Foucault pendulum.

(b) System of particles
Constraints, degrees of freedom, generalised coordinates and
momenta. Lagrange's equation and applications to linear harmonic oscillator, simple
pendulum and central force problems. Cyclic coordinates, Hamilitonian Lagrange's
equation from Hamilton's principle.

(c) Rigid body dynamics
Eulerian angles, inertia tensor, principal moments of inertia. Euler's equation of motion
of a rigid body, force-free motion of a rigid body. Gyroscope.
2. Special Relativity, Waves & Geometrical Optics

(a) Special Relativity
Michelson-Morley experiment and its implications. Lorentz
transformations-length contraction, time dilation, addition of velocities, aberration and
Doppler effect, mass-energy relation, simple applications to a decay process.
Minkowski diagram, four dimensional momentum vector. Covariance of equations of
physics.

(b) Waves
Simple harmonic motion, damped oscillation, forced
oscillation and resonance. Beats. Stationary waves in a string. Pulses and wave packets.
Phase and group velocities. Reflection and Refraction from Huygens' principle.

(c) Geometrical Optics
Laws of relfection and refraction from Fermat's principle.
Matrix method in paraxial optic-thin lens formula, nodal planes, system of two thin
lenses, chromatic and spherical aberrations.

3. Physical Optics
(a) Interference
Interference of light-Young's experiment,
Newton's rings, interference by thin films, Michelson interferometer. Multiple beam
interference and Fabry-Perot interferometer. Holography and simple applications.
(b) Diffraction
Fraunhofer diffraction-single slit, double slit, diffraction grating, resolving power.
Fresnel diffraction: - half-period zones and zones plates. Fresnel integrals. Application
of Cornu's spiral to the analysis of diffraction at a straight edge and by a long narrow
slit. Diffraction by a circular aperture and the Airy pattern.

(c) Polarisation and Modern Optics
Production and detection of linearly and circularly polarised light. Double refraction,
quarter wave plate. Optical activity. Principles of fibre optics attenuation; pulse
dispersion in step index and parabolic index fibres; material dispersion, single mode
fibres. Lasers-Einstein A and B coefficients. Ruby and He-Ne lasers. Characteristics of
laser light-spatial and temporal coherence. Focussing of laser beams.