Tribology and Terotechnology
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The official GTU curriculum for Tribology and Terotechnology (subject code 3161918) as prescribed for Mechanical Engineering · Semester 6 divides the course into 4 units, covering 60 listed topics. The unit-wise breakdown below is read from the GTU syllabus document for this subject code, so you can check what the course actually covers before deciding which papers to attempt.
Download the official syllabus PDF (3161918)Unit 1 Introduction
- Defining Tribology
- Need of tribology
- History of Tribology
- Tribology in Design
- Mechanical design of seal and gasket
- Tribological design of seals and gasket
- Tribology in Industry (Maintenance)
- Machine components like seal, cam, journal bearings
- magnetic bearing
- roller bearing
- Defining Lubrication
- Applications of lubricant
- Basic Modes of Lubrication
- Thick and thin lubrications
- Lubrication mechanisms
- Properties of Lubricants
- Types of Lubricants
- Solid lubricants
- Semi-solid lubricant
- Liquid lubricants
- Gaseous lubricants
- Lubricant Additives
- Need of Additives
- Types of additives
- Interference between additives
- Lubrication Selection
Unit 2 Friction, Wear and Boundary Lubrication
- Classification of friction
- Laws of friction
- Causes of dry friction
- Theories of Dry Friction
- Friction Measurement
- Stick–Slip Motion and Friction Instabilities
- Classification of wear
- Factors affecting wear
- Theories of Wear
- Approaches to Friction Control and Wear Prevention
- Boundary Lubrication
- Application of coatings and different surface treatments in wear and friction control
Unit 3 Lubrication of Bearings
- Mechanics of Fluid Flow
- Theory of hydrodynamic lubrication
- Lubricant Viscosity
- Mechanism of pressure development in lubricant film
- Reynolds’ Equation and its Limitations
- Idealized Bearings
- Infinitely long plane fixed sliders
- Infinitely long plane pivoted sliders
- Infinitely long journal bearings
- Infinitely short journal bearings
- Journal Bearings
- Locating journal position
- Lubricant supply in bearing
- Design of journal bearings
- Hydrodynamic thrust bearings
- Fixed pad thrust bearing
- Pressure Distribution
- Tilting pad thrust bearing
Unit 4 Hydrostatic and Squeeze Film Lubrication
- Hydrostatic Lubrication
- Basic concept
- Advantages and limitations
- Viscous 06 12% Subject Code: 3161918
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