Fabrication Design
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Fabrication Design Syllabus — Unit-wise Content
The official GTU curriculum for Fabrication Design (subject code 4355501) as prescribed for FT · Semester 5 divides the course into 5 units, covering 95 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 (4355501)Unit 1 Machine design and stresses in machine parts
- 1.2. Classification of machine design
- 1.3. General considerations in machine design
- 1.4. General procedure in machine design
- 1.5. Fundamental units & its conversion
- 1.6. Load, Stress, Strain
- 1.7. Tensile, compressive, shear stress & strain
- 1.8. Young’s modulus
- 1.9. Shear modulus
- 1.10. Bearing stress
- 1.11. Stress strain diagram
- 1.12. Working stress
- 1.13. Factor of safety and its selection criteria
- 1.14. Thermal stress
- 1.15. Linear and lateral strain
- 1.16. Poisson’s ratio
- 1.17. Volumetric strain
- 1.18. Bulk modulus
- 1.19. Relation between bulk modulus and young’s modulus
- 1.20. Relation between young’s modulus and modulus of rigidity
- 1.21. Impact stress
- 1.23. Torsional shear stress
- 1.24. Bending stress
- 1.25. Principal stress and principal plane
- 1.26. Application of principal stress in designing machine members
- 1.27. Cyclic stresses
- 1.28. Fatigue and endurance limit
- 1.29. Effect of different factors on endurance limit Fabrication Design Course Code: 4355501
- 1.30. Stress concentration & methods of reducing stress concentration
- 1.31. Notch sensitivity
Unit 2 Design of Riveted Joints
- 2.1. Introduction & methods of Riveting
- 2.2. Material of rivet
- 2.3. Essential qualities of rivet
- 2.4. Types of rivets
- 2.5. Types of riveted joint
- 2.6. Important terms used in riveted joint
- 2.7. Failures of a riveted joint
- 2.8. Strength of riveted joint
- 2.9. Efficiency of riveted joint
- 2.10. Riveted joint for structural use – joint of uniform strength (Lozenge joint)
Unit 3 Design of Welded Joints
- 3.2. Advantages and disadvantages of welded joint over riveted joint
- 3.3. Types of welded joint
- 3.4. Strength of transverse fillet welded joint
- 3.5. Strength of parallel fillet welded joint
- 3.6. Special cases of fillet welded joint
- 3.7. Strength of butt welded joint
- 3.8. Stresses for welded joint
- 3.9. Stress concentration factor for welded joint
- 3.10. Axially loaded unsymmetrical welded sections
Unit 4 Basic Consideration in Process Equipment Design and drafting
- 4.1. Design codes
- 4.2. Factors affecting process equipment design
- 4.3. Maximum working pressure
- 4.4. Design pressure
- 4.5. Design temperature
- 4.6. Design stress & factor of safety
- 4.7. Corrosion allowance
- 4.8. Weld joint efficiency factor Fabrication Design Course Code: 4355501 as per ASME Sec VIII Div-1 4.9 Design loadings
- 4.10. Stress concentration
- 4.11. Thermal stress
- 4.12. Criteria of failure
- 4.13. Failures in pressure vessel
- 4.14. Cylindrical shell design
- 4.15. Design of heads & closures
- 4.16. Compensation for opening in process equipment
- 4.17. Types & design criteria of flange
- 4.18. Gasket & its selection
- 4.19. Design consideration & types of support for pressure vessel
- 4.20. AutoCAD 2D drafting
Unit 5 Design considerations of steel Structure
- 5.1. Factors governing structural layout
- 5.2. Structural design
- 5.3. Steps in design
- 5.4. Load analysis
- 5.5. Minimum thickness
- 5.6. Plans and drawings
- 5.7. Design considerations
- 5.8. Methods of structural design
- 5.9. Simple design
- 5.10. Semi-rigid design
- 5.11. Fully rigid design
- 5.12. Experimentally based design
- 5.13. Slenderness ratio
- 5.14. Corrosion protection
- 5.15. Increase of stresses
- 5.16. Fluctuation of stresses
- 5.17. Resistance to horizontal forces
- 5.18. Stability of the structure
- 5.19. Industrial building
- 5.20. Steel Bridges
- 5.21. Web stiffeners & its types
- 5.22. Roof trusses
- 5.23. Transmission line tower
- 5.24. Bending moment & shear force diagram
- 5.25. Cantilever beam with point load at end
- 5.26. Cantilever beam with uniformly distributed load Fabrication Design Course Code: 4355501
- 5.27. Simply supported beam with point load at mid point
- 5.28. Simply supported beam with uniformly distributed load