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AM - IIW Degree - Course Curriculam & Syllabi for Associate Membership (AMIIW) Examination
AMIIW EXAMINATION
(w.e.f. December 2007) REVISED CURRICULUM & SYLLABI PART A PREPARATORY COURSE AME-1: Elementary Mathematics AME-2: Physics AME-3: Chemistry AME-4: General English AME-5: Applied Mechanics AME-6: Industrial Sociology PART B INTERMEDIATE COURSE AME-7: Strength of Materials AME-8: Electrical Engineering and Electronics AME-9: Material Science AME-10: Production Engineering AME-11: Engineering Drawing AME-12: Engineering Mathematics AME-13: Welding Metallurgy-I AME-14: Heat & Mass Transfer AME-15: Welding & Allied Processes-I PART C FINAL EXAMINATION Part I: Welding Engineering Course AME-16: Engineering Economics AME-17: Computation Methods and Computer Programming AME-18: Weldment Design & Weld Procedure AME-19: Testing and Quality Assurance Part II: Welding Technology Course AME-20: Welding Metallurgy II AME-21: Welding Applications AME-22: Welding & Allied Processes II AME-23: Welding Equipment & Consumables AME-24: Advanced Welding Technology PART D ELECTIVE PROJECT & VIVA VOCE I. Elective Project on an approved topic II. Viva Voce: shall be comprehensive and include the Project Work. 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Marks Marks 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 100 Marks
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Vector Algebra:
Vectors and scalars, vector addition, resolution of vectors, scalar components, unit vectors, vector representation in three dimensions, scalar and vector product of two vectors.
Determinants:
Cramers rule.
Complex numbers:
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Complex Numbers, De Moivers theorem, exponential values of sines and cosines, hyperbolic functions.
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Differential Calculus:
one variable.
Differentiation and integration of hyperbolic functions. Rolles theorem, mean Value theorem, Taylors and Maclaurins series. Maxima and Minima of function of
Integral Calculus:
Properties of Definite Integrals. Fundamental theorem of integral calculus. Arc length and surface areas of plane curves. Volume and Surface Area of Solids of revolution. Centre of gravity.
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AME-2: PHYSICS
Geometrical Optics:
aberration, two lenses in contact, two lenses separated by a distance; Monochromatic aberration; spherical aberration, coma, oblique astigmatism, curvature and field of distortion.
Interference: Relation between phase and path difference; coherent sources; Youngs Double
slit, Fresnels Biprism, Lloyds single mirror; position of Bright and Dark fringes, fringe width. Displacement of fringes; Newtons rings.
Diffraction: Fresnel and Fraunhofer diffraction, single slit and double slit diffraction, diffraction
grating; introduction to reflection and transmission, resolution and Raleigh criterion, resolving power of grating.
Fibre Optics: Basic principle and application of optical fibres. Introduction to Lasers: Stimulated absorption, spontaneous
emission and stimulated emission. Characteristics of Laser light. Einsteins A and B coefficients. Population inversion Ruby laser, helium-neon laser, argon ion laser, CO2 laser, semi conductor lasers.
Acoustics: Simple harmonic motion, free and damped vibration, analogy with electric circuits,
forced vibration, Resonance; amplitude resonance and velocity resonance and energy intake, absorption of sound; Sabines formula (statement only), acoustic properties of buildings, production and application of ultrasonics.
Magnetism & Electricity: Biot-Savart law; magnetic fields due to a long straight conductor,
a narrow circular coil, on the axis of a solenoid. Magnetic circuits, magnetomotive force, reluctance. Alternative current; r.m.s. value, mean value of an a.c. current. Applications of a.c. to (i) a pure resistance, (ii) a pure inductance, (iii) a capacitor, (iv) an L-R circuit. Impedence triangle and power triangle. Application of a.c. to (i) a C-R circuit and (ii) an L-C-R circuit in series.
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AME-3: CHEMISTRY
Chemical Bonds:
bonding in metals; free electron theory, valence bond theory, molecular orbital theory. Hydrogen bonding; intermolecular and intramolecular hydrogen bonding. Solid state chemistry; laws of crystallography, laws of constancy of interfacial angle, law of rationality of indices, Weiss and Miller indices, law of symmetry; plane of symmetry, axis of symmetry, centre of symmetry. Crystal lattice and unit cell. Examples of cubic, tetragonal, orthorhombic, monoclinic, triclinic, hexagonal and rhombohedral crystals. Body centered and face centred lattices.
Polymer Chemistry:
Natural and synthetic polymers, Organic and inorganic polymers, thermoplastic and thermosetting polymers, plastics, elastones, fibres and liquid resins. Addition and condensation polymers. Structure of polymers.
Chemical Kinetics: Reaction rate and rate laws, rate constant, order of a chemical reaction;
zero, first and second order reaction.
Corrosion:
from corrosion.
Water Treatment:
Types and degrees of hardness, softening of water; lime soda process, treatment of boiler feed water.
Fuel and Combustion: Calorific value, determination of calorific value, analysis of coal. Environmental protection: Types and sources of air pollutants, pollution control
techniques. Smog formation, acid rain, depletion of ozone layer.
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Statics:
concurrent forces, moment, Varignons theorem, couple, resultant of force systems. Reactions at supports of beams. Analysis of pinjointed plane frames; method of joints, method of section.
Friction:
Laws of friction; angle of friction, angle of repose and cone of friction, simple
Dynamics: Kinetics:
Kinematics; Linear motion with uniform velocity and uniform acceleration. Projectiles; inclined projections on level ground, projections on inclined plane, Relative velocity. DAlemberts principle, Impulse momentum, simple applications to motion of connected bodies.
Circular motion of rigid bodies: acceleration, motion on level ground, banking of roads
and super elevation of rails, designed speed, skidding and overturning on banked roads.
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field; Direct current emf, Current and Ohms law; resistivity; Kirchhoffs law. Wheatstone bridge, potentiometer; Elements of Network Analysis; delta-star transformation. Magnetomotive force, magnetic reluctance, Ampere turns; hysterisis; self and mutual inductance, eddy currents. Alternating current; instantaneous, average and r.m.s. values; Vector representation; simple circuit calculations; response of resistance, inductance and capacitance to D.C. and A.C. voltage sources. Series and parallel resonance of LRC Circuits. Power factor.
Electrical Machines:
Elements of construction, operation and characteristics of D.C. and A.C. Generators and motors; starters. Transformers, Introduction to variable speed drives.
Electronics: Semi Conductors: P and N type, P-N diodes, P-N-P and N-P-N transistors.
Diodes and transistor circuits; single phase, half wave and full wave rectifier, bridge rectifiers and filtering circuits. Transistor biasing and stabilisation. Transistor as an amplifier. Common emitter amplifier, the emitter follower. Feedback amplifier; positive and negative feedback. The operational amplifier (TC). Use of operators of amplifier as Invertor. Adder, integrator, differentiator. Push-Pull inverter circuits.
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Atomic structure and types of bonding between atoms: Bohrs atomic model
electronic configuration of atoms, periodic classification of elements. Binding energy; ionic bonds, covalent bonds, material properties having these bonds. Electro negativity. Metallic bond materials properties having this bond. Intermolecular forces.
rhombohedral, hexagonal, monoclinic and triclinic. Unit cell parameters to specify each crystal system. Crystal directions and planes, Miller indices.
Binding in solids:
structure. Crystalline imperfections. Point imperfections and line imperfections or dislocations, edge and screw dislocations, slip planes. Surface imperfections. Structure in silica and silicates; polymorphism in metals and ceramics; Amorphous materials glass and polymer.
Alloys:
binary phase diagrams of important alloy systems, dendrite structure, lever rule, solid
solutions, eutectic, peritectic, eutectoid and peritectoid reactions. Intermetallic compounds, sigma & other phases.
ductile and brittle fracture, Griffiths theory, fracture toughness, ductile-brittle transition, fatigue fracture. Mechanical testing of metals. the structure of silica and silicates, polymorphism, fracture in glass, electrical properties of ceramic phases, refractories. classification, degree of polymerization. Formability; addition polymerization, copolymerization, condensation polymerization. Molecular structure; linear, branched, cross linked
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Foundry Practice: Types of pattern and core boxes; metal flow in a mould; gating & risering;
Casting processes; green and dry sand, other sand casting processes, metal mould casting processes, precision casting processes. Melting furnaces. Casting defects, inspection and rectification.
Plastic flow of metals; open die, machine and drop forging; forging
machines, hammers & presses. Blanking and piercing; elements of die design. Deep drawing; Cold working
Metal Cutting:
Geometry of single point tools, chip formation, cutting force, tool life. Cutting fluids, speed feed, depth of cut and power requirements. Various machining operations; turning, milling, shaping, planing, screw thread and gear cutting, grinding. Machine tools.
measurement of screw threads and gears; limits & fits, limit gauging, elements of design of limit gauges.
Production planning, Gantt Chart, inventory control; inventory policies, economic batch quantities; Method and Work Study, time study, systems of rating, time standards. Introduction to linear programming; scheduling, PERT
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Introduction to IS Code of drawing. Conics and Curves used in engineering practice: ellipse, parabola, hyperbola,
cycloid, involute and helix.
Orthogonal projection:
First and third angle projection of points, lines, planes and solid objects cube, prism, pyramid, cylinder, cone and sphere.
Machine elements:
limits, fits and finish.
Welding Symbols: Standard welding symbols used on drawings. Recommended Text Books:
Engineering Drawing, Bhatt N.D., Panchal V.M., 1998, Charbotar Publishing House. Machine Drawing, Bhatt N.D., Panchal V.M., Charbotar Publishing House.
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Matrices:
Addition and multiplication of matrices. Adjoint and inverse matrix. Matrix method of
Functions of several variables: Limit and continuity, partial derivatives, total differential,
Jacobean and problems of two variables. Tangent planes and normals. Maxima, minima and saddle points; Lagrange multipliers, problems related to three variables.
Integral Calculus: Double and triple Integrals; simple applications. Differential Equations: Review of Ordinary Differential Equations. Linear
and non-linear
first order equations. Second and higher order equations with constant coefficients. Method of variation of parameters. Euler-Cauchy equation. Fourier series. Partial differential equations. Solution of one dimensional wave and diffusion equations. Two dimensional LaPlace equation.
Infinite Series:
Convergence and divergence; Comparison test, DAlemberts ratio test, Cauchys root test and integral test. Alternating series; tests for convergence and divergence.
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demand; demand schedule, demand curve and demand function; Laws of demand, elasticity of demand price elasticity, income elasticity, cross elasticity; demand forecasting, methods of
Production functions:
economies of scale.
product, types of production function; laws of increasing, constant and diminishing returns,
Cost analysis:
opportunity cost, past and future cost, avoidable and unavoidable cost,
replacement cost, historical cost, incremental and sunk cost, controllable cost, production and short run cost, relationship between various costs.
Break even analysis: limitations, formulae for break even analysis. Markets: classification on the basis of competition, perfect competition,
price fixation, pricing strategy.
monopoly, bilateral
monopoly, forms of price discrimination, imperfect competition, monopolistic competition, oligopoly, duopoly; determination of equilibrium price, price control, price support and minimum
Sources of finance: financial accounts and management of finance; cost of capital, working
capital management, capital market and money market.
Managerial Economics and Financial Analysis, Siddiqui S. A., and Siddiqui A.S., 2005, new Age International (P) Ltd.
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Representation of numbers:
floating point numbers.
Languages:
Assembly language, high level language, compiler and assembler. Operating The C character set, identifiers and keywords, data types and sizes,
The C Language:
variable names, declaration, statements. Arithmetic, relational and logical operators, increment and decrement operators, assignment operators and expressions, bitwise operators. Precedence and order of evaluation. Input and output. Conditionals and branching. Iteration. Functions, recursion. One dimensional arrays, introduction to pointers, Multi dimensional arrays.
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Structures, Unions and files.
Writing Simple Programmes: Writing programmes to solve simple problems using C. Recommended Text Books:
Programming in C, Balaguruswamy. The C Programming Language, Kernighan B.W., and Ritchie D.M.
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AME-18: WELDMENT DESIGN AND WELD PROCEDURE Welding Design: Structural elements, cables, bars, beams, plates, slabs, shells, columns.
Stresses and strains, normal stress, shear stress, hot spot stress, notch stress; axial strain, shear strain. Stress strain relationship; elastic and plastic deformation; Youngs modulus, shear modulus, transversal contraction coefficient. Welded joint design, types of joints, classification of groove shapes; welding symbols on drawings, symbols for groove shapes. Standard representation of welded, brazed and soldered joints. Behaviour of welded structures under different types of loading static strength, elevated temperature strength, low temperature strength, creep resistance, impact behaviour. Design for torsional loading. Design of welded joints for column base, plate girders, cylindrical shells and pressure vessels, pipelines. Design for flanged connections. Joint design for minimising fatigue failures. Control of distortion and shrinkage, residual stresses in welding.
Welding Procedure:
Specification, qualification. Welding
Welding Procedure; definition, significance, Welding Procedure Qualification. Welder qualification, Welding Operator
Procedure
Weldign procedures for manual, semi-automatic and automatic welding by MMAW, TIG, MIG, SAW processes for materials such as carbon steel, cast iron, low alloy steels, stainless steel, aluminium. Introduction to ASME Section IX. Procedures for cutting by gas and plasma. Procedure for preheating and post weld heat treatment of weldments.
Welding Technology and Design V. M. Radhakrishnan, Revised Second Ed., New Age International Publishers. A Guide to Designing Welds J. G. Hicks, Woodhead Publishing Ltd. (Website: www.woodheadpublishing.com)
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www.woodheadpublishing.com) Metals and their Weldability, Welding Handbook, Part-4, American Welding Society.
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Repair Welding:
in-service situations. Welding repair procedure specification. Welding repair plan. Welding repair procedure qualification. NDT of weld repair. Operator qualification to be applied to repair welds.
morphology and position on structural integrity. Typical methods of conducting an engineering critical assessment of a welded structure.
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