Basic Mechanical Engineering

Preface

Basic Mechanical Engineering is an essential subject taught to the 1st year engineering students. This book covers wide areas of mechanical engineering and is broadly divided into three parts— thermal engineering, mechanical design, and manufacturing engineering. In thermal engineering, we discuss about various forms of energy transfer, laws of thermodynamics, steam properties and steam generators, fluid mechanics, turbines, internal combustion engines, heat transfer, refrigeration and air conditioning, compressors, etc. In mechanical design, we discuss about the mechanism of working of machine elements such as centroid and moment of inertia, stress and strain, power transmission, brake, coupling, clutch, etc. In manufacturing engineering, ...