About the Book
Written with the first year engineering students of undergraduate level in mind, the well-designed textbook, now in its Third Edition, explains the fundamentals of mechanical engineering in the area of thermodynamics, mechanics, theory of machines, strength of materials and fluid dynamics. As these subjects form a basic part of an engineer’s education, this text is admirably suited to meet the needs of the common course in mechanical engineering prescribed in the curricula of almost all branches of engineering. This revised edition includes a new chapter on ‘Fluid Dynamics’ to meet the course requirement.
Key Features
• Presents an introduction to basic mechanical engineering topics required by all engineering students in their studies.
• Includes a series of objective type question (True and False, Fill in the Blanks and Multiple Choice Questions) with explanatory answers to help students in preparing for competitive examinations.
• Provides a large number of solved problems culled from the latest university and competitive examination papers which help in understanding theory.
About the Author
G.S. SAWHNEY is Professor and Head, Department of Mechanical Engineering at Accurate Institute of Management and Technology, Greater Noida. Earlier, he was Professor and Head of the Department of Mechanical Engineering at GNIT, Greater Noida and LKIE, Ghaziabad. He obtained his B.Tech from IIT Madras (1967) and ME from Pune University. He has over 44 years of teaching and industrial experience. Professor Sawhney has authored more than twenty books including Fundamentals of Mechanical Engineering, Engineering Mechanics, Thermal and Hydraulic Mechanics and Non- Conventional Energy Resources published by PHI Learning, Delhi.
Table of Contents: Preface
1. Basic Concepts and Zeroth Law of Thermodynamics
2. First Law of Thermodynamics
3. Second Law of Thermodynamics
4. Properties of Steam and Thermodynamics
5. Vapour Cycles
6. Thermodynamic Cycles
7. Mechanism and Simple Machines
8. Force System and Analysis
9. Friction
10. Analysis of Beams
11. Trusses
12. Centroid and Moment of Inertia
13. Kinematics of Rigid Body
14. Kinetics of Rigid Body
15. Stress and Strain Analysis
16. Bending Stresses in Beams
17. Torsion
18. Fluid Dynamics
Bibliography
Index