TNPSC Combined Technical Services Exam - Degree Level (Non Interview Posts) - 2024
No of Vacancies: 605
Notification Date: 26.07.2024
Tentative Exam Date: 14.10.2024
No of exam days: 10
What Posts are in this Exam?
Age Limit:
No Age Limit for BC / BCM / MBC / SC / ST
Others: Will be updated.
Exam Pattern:
Syllabus:
PAPER –I MECHANICAL / PRODUCTION / MANUFACTURING
ENGINEERING
(Degree Standard)
CODE NO: 399
UNIT – I : MECHANICS, KINETICS AND DYNAMICS Statics of
Particles, Equilibrium of Rigid bodies, Properties of Surfaces and Solids,
Dynamics of Particles, Friction and Elements of Rigid Body Dynamics, Basics of
Mechanisms, Kinematics of mechanisms, gyroscope, Gears and Gear Trains,
Friction in Machine Elements, Force Analysis, Balancing, Single Degree Free
Vibration, Forced Vibration, mechanisms for Control and Vibration.
UNIT – II : STRENGTH OF MATERIALS AND DESIGN Stress, Strain
and Deformation of Solids, Transverse Loading on Beams and Stresses in Beams,
Torsion, Deflection of Beams, Energy Principles, Thin Cylinders and Thick
Cylinders, Spherical Shells, Fundamentals of Design for Strength and Stiffness
of Machine Members, Design of Shafts and Couplings, Design of Fasteners and
Welded Joints, Design of Springs, Design of Bearings, Design of Flywheels,
Design of Transmission Systems for Flexible Elements, Spur Gears and Parallel
Axis Helical Gears, Bevel Gears, Worm Gears and Crossed Helical Gears, Design of
single and two stage speed reducers, Design of cam, Clutches and Brakes.
UNIT – III : FLUID MECHANICS AND TURBO MACHINERY Fluid
properties, fluid statics, manometry, buoyancy, control volume analysis of
mass, momentum and energy, fluid acceleration, differential equations of
continuity and momentum, Bernoulli‟s equation, viscous flow of incompressible
fluids, boundary layer,elementary turbulent flow, flow through pipes, head
losses in pipes, bends etc. Turbomachinery: Pelton wheel, Francis and Kaplan turbines
- impulse and reaction principles – velocity diagrams.
UNIT – IV : THERMODYNAMICS Basic concepts, Zeroth, First and
Second laws of thermodynamics, thermodynamic system and processes, Carnot
cycle. irreversibility and availability, behaviour of ideal and real gases,
thermodynamic relations, properties of pure substances, calculation of work and
heat in ideal processes, analysis of thermodynamic cycles related to energy
conversion, Fuel and combustion.
UNIT – V : HEAT AND MASS TRANSFER Modes of heat transfer one
dimensional heat conduction, resistance concept, electrical analogy, unsteady
heat conduction, fins dimensionless parameters in free and forced convective
heat transfer, various correlations for heat transfer in flow over flat plates
and through pipes thermal boundary layer effect of turbulence radiative heat
transfer, black and grey surfaces, shape factors, network analysis; heat
exchanger performance, LMTD and NTU methods. Basic Concepts of Mass transfer,
Diffusion Mass Transfer, Fick‟s Law of Diffusion Steady state Molecular
diffusion, Convective Mass Transfer, Momentum, Heat and Mass Transfer Analogy,
Convective Mass Transfer Correlations. 37 Applications: Power Engineering:
Steam Tables, Rankine, Brayton cycles with regeneration and reheat. I.C.
Engines: air-standard Otto, Diesel cycles. Refrigeration and air-conditioning:
Vapour refrigeration cycle, heat pumps, gas refrigeration, Reverse Brayton
cycle; moist air: psychometric chart, basic psychometric processes.
UNIT – VI : MATERIALS SCIENCE AND METALLURGY
Constitution of alloys and phase diagrams, steels, cast iron, TTT diagram, heat
treatment of ferrous and non-ferrous metal, surface modification techniques,
non- metallic materials, mechanical properties and testing, crystal defects and
strengthening mechanisms, conducting and semi conducting materials, magnetic
and dielectric materials, Engineering ceramics, Engineering and commodity
polymers, composites.
UNIT – VII : PRODUCTION TECHNOLOGY Foundry Technology- types
of pattern, moulding and casting methods, design of castings, defects, Hot and
Cold working, metal forming processes- types and defects, metal joining
processes, types and design of weldment, welding metallurgy, welding defects,
Metal cutting, machine tools - center lathe, drilling, milling, grinding, gear
cutting and broaching, unconventional machining processes, CNC machine tools,
Part programming.
UNIT – VIII : METROLOGY AND QUALITY CONTROL Linear and
angular measurements, Interferometry, laser interferometers , Types, Computer
Aided Inspection, Basic concept of CMM- Types of CMM, Machine vision, Form
measurement-Straightness - Flatness, Roundness, Surface finish measurement,
contact and non contact method, Measurement of power, flow and temperature.
Statistical quality control, control charts,
acceptance sampling, reliability, TQM, 5S, ISO standards. UNIT – IX : CAD / CAM
/ CIM / FEA Fundamentals of Computer Graphics, Geometric Modeling, Visual
Realism, Assembly of Parts, CAD Standards, Fundamentals of CIM, Production
Planning and Control and Computerized Process Planning, Cellular Manufacturing,
Flexible Manufacturing System and Automated Guided Vehicle System, Industrial
Robotics, Additive manufacturing, Just in Time(JIT), lean manufacturing, One
Dimensional Problems in FEA, Two Dimensional Scalar Variable Problems, Two
dimensional vector variable Problems, Isometric Parametric Formulation.
UNIT – X : INDUSTRIAL ENGINEERING AND MANAGEMENT Work study
- techniques, Method study - objectives - basic procedure, work measurement -
objectives - basic procedure, machine loading and scheduling, product
sequencing, inventory control - E O Q - quantity discounts, ABC Analysis
material handling systems, operations research, simplex method, Transportation
model, Assignment model CPM and PERT. Management theory and practice, planning
- nature and purpose of Planning, Decision making, Organising, staffing,
Motivation, Leadership, controlling, control techniques.
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