Design of Mechanisms
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Design of Mechanisms Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Design of Mechanisms (subject code 3162001) as prescribed for Mechatronics · Semester 6 divides the course into 5 units, covering 43 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 (3162001)Unit 1 Design Considerations
- Preferred numbers
- Tolerances and Fits
- System design
- Manufacturing considerations
- Mechanical Properties of Materials
- Effect of Alloying elements and heat treatment on properties of steels
- Materials Selection in Machine Design 02*
Unit 2 Design Against Static Load
- Concepts of stresses and Strain
- Factor of safety
- Contact stresses
- Crushing and Bearing stress
- Combinations of Axial
- Torsional and Bending loads
- Theories of Failures: Distortion energy (von Mises)
- Maximum-Shear stress
- Maximum Principal stress
- Selection and Use of theories of failures
- Application Problems: Eccentric Loading
- Design of Socket & Spigot Cotter joint
- Knuckle Joint
- Design and analysis of levers: Cranked
- Bell crank
- Rocker arm
Unit 3 Design Against Fluctuating Loads
- Stress Concentration
- Endurance limit and Fatigue failure
- Factors affecting endurance limit
- Design for reversed stresses and cumulative damage
- Fluctuating stresses: Soderberg
- Goodman and Modified Goodman criteria
- Combined stresses
Unit 4 Beams and Columns
- Different types of supports / end conditions
- Revision of Stresses in beams: Effect of Section
- Orientation, and type of loading
- Deflection of beams for different loading conditions
- Compressive axial loading of columns and struts
- Slenderness ratio
- Compressive stress and Buckling of members
- Effect of end conditions
- Euler’s Formula
- validity and limitations
- Rankine’s Formula
- stresses in curved beam
Unit 5 Subject Code
- AY 2018-19 * Topic should be covered during practical class. ** Provide necessary equations/data/chart/Tables in exams
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