Plumbing and carpentry. Arc and gas welding, sheet metal work and machining operations. Smithy, foundry, machine assembly and fitting operations. Methods of household and industrial wiring, use of measuring instruments, identification of electronic components and devices, and the study of their characteristics through experimentation, soldering of electronic components, etc. The book is intended for the first-year undergraduate engineering students of all disciplines. Key Feature Includes a large number of figures and examples for easy understanding of operations of tools and equipment. Offers viva questions with answers for practical examination. About The Author S. Suyambazhahan, Ph.D., is Principal, S.A. Engineering College, Chennai. He received his doctorate from the Indian Institute of Technology Madras. He has 22 years of teaching and research experience in mechanical engineering subjects such as Fluid Mechanics, Engineering Thermodynamics, Heat Transfer, Computational Fluid Dynamics, and Thermal Engineering. He is a life member of several professional bodies. Dr. Suyambazhahan has published several research papers in international journals.

Apart from offering a new insight into a hitherto unexplored domain, it shows us how small our world has truly become.

Beginners in the subject find it difficult to keep up with the ever expanding technical literacy base taken for granted by experienced practitioners. This book presents fundamental knowledge in mass transfer in easily understandable form by explaining, in worked examples, basic mass transfer definitions and calculation procedures which form the building blocks of many sophisticated computer algorithms.

It is intended for the students pursuing courses in civil engineering at both undergraduate and postgraduate levels. It is also considered useful for practising civil engineers and designers who need a ready reckoner on important design aspects of bridges. The second edition has three main objectives. First, it provides general updates of the bridge designs as per the revised IRC codes. Second, it incorporates all round improvement to the presentation of the material. Third, and more importantly, the second edition makes the book complete by incorporating topics like prestressed concrete bridge decks and applications of artificial intelligence in bridge engineering. The most distinguishing features of the book comprise: Detailed design drawings of bridges Coverage of both hydraulic and structural design of bridges Numerous solved examples to illustrate both analysis and design calculations Computer programs to initiate students into the field of computer-aided projects in bridge design.

He is expected to be highly versatile in his compatibility, whether it be in the field of financial engineering or in the making of Jurassic Park. With this thought this book was made which we don't claim as a solution to something but an approach to make engineering easy to the students, so as to provide them with enough time and scope to broaden their horizons.

The book is divided into seven modules. A topic is introduced in each chapter of a module with brief explanations and necessary pictorial views. Then it is discussed in detail through a number of worked-out examples, which are explained using step-by-step procedure and illustrating drawings. Module A covers the fundamentals of manual drafting, lettering, freehand sketching and dimensioning of views. Module B describes two-dimensional drawings like geometrical constructions, conies, miscellaneous curves and scales. Three-dimensional drawings, such as projections of points, lines, plane lamina, geometrical solids and sections of them are well explained in Module C. Module D deals with intersection of surfaces and their developments. Drawing of pictorial views is illustrated in Module E, which includes isometric projection, oblique projection and perspective projections. Module F covers the fundamentals of machine drawing. Finally, in Module G the book introduces computer-aided drafting (CAD) to make the readers familiar with the state-of-the-art techniques of drafting.

This title includes module A that covers the fundamentals of manual drafting, lettering, freehand sketching and dimensioning of views. Module B describes two-dimensional drawings like geometrical constructions, conics, miscellaneous curves and scales. Three-dimensional drawings, such as projections of points, lines, plane lamina, geometrical solids and their different sections are well-explained in Module C. Module D deals with intersection of surfaces and their developments. Drawing of pictorial views is illustrated in Module E, which includes isometric projection, oblique projection and perspective projections. The fundamentals of machine drawing are covered in Module F. Finally, in Module G, this book introduces computer-aided drafting (CAD) to make the readers familiar with the state-of-the-art techniques of drafting.

This book provides a first course in Refrigeration and Air Conditioning. The subject matter has been developed in a logical and coherent manner with neat illustrations and a fairly large number of solved examples and unsolved problems. The text, developed from the author s teaching experience of many years, is suitable for the senior-level undergraduate and first-year postgraduate students of mechanical engineering, automobile engineering as well as chemical engineering. The text commences with an introduction to the fundamentals of thermodynamics and a brief treatment of the various methods of refrigeration. Then follows the detailed discussion and analysis of air refrigeration systems, vapour compression and vapour absorption refrigeration systems with special emphasis on developing sound physical concepts and gaining problem solving skills. Refrigerants are exhaustively dealt with in a separate chapter.