Syllabus Manufacturing Technology - (BE05000311) Total Credits Assessment Pattern and Marks Total Marks Theory Tutorial / Practical 3 ESE (E) PA / CA (M) PA / CA (I) PBL (I) ESE (V) 70 30 20 30 50 200 Sr. No. Content 1. Foundry Technology : Pattern Practices : Types of patterns, pattern allowances, and materials used for patterns. Moulding materials and moulding sands, properties of moulding sand, and sand testing methods such as grain fineness, moisture content, clay content, and permeability. Core materials and core making, core prints, core boxes, and chaplets. Moulding practices including green sand, dry sand, and loam sand moulding; pit and floor moulding; shell moulding; permanent moulding; and carbon dioxide (CO₂) moulding. Casting Practices : Fundamentals of metal casting; sand casting; shell mould casting; plaster and ceramic mould casting; investment casting; vacuum casting; permanent mould casting; and slush casting. Pressure casting and die casting; centrifugal casting; continuous casting; and squeeze casting. Casting alloys, casting defects, and design of castings including gating system and riser design. Melting furnaces such as rotary, pit electric, tilting, and cupola furnaces. (Chapter - 1) 2. Metal Joining Processes : Principles of welding, soldering, brazing, and adhesive bonding. Classification of welding and allied processes. Gas welding and gas cutting, including oxy-acetylene welding equipment. Arc welding, power sources, and consumables. Resistance welding processes such as spot, projection, and seam welding. Advanced welding processes including atomic hydrogen, ultrasonic, plasma arc, laser beam, and electron beam welding. Special welding processes such as TIG, MIG, friction, and explosive welding. Welding of cast iron (C.I.) and aluminium (Al). Welding defects, electrodes and electrode coatings, and welding positions. (Chapter - 2) 3. Forming and Shaping Processes : Metal working; elastic and plastic deformation; hot and cold working; concept of strain hardening. Cold working processes such as shearing, drawing, squeezing, blanking, piercing, deep drawing, coining, and embossing. Rolling : principle and operations, and roll pass sequence. Extrusion, and wire and tube drawing processes. Forging : methods of forging, forging hammers and presses, and principles of forging tool design. Metal working defects, cold heading, riveting, thread rolling, bending, and forming operations. (Chapters - 3, 4) 4. Microsystems Fabrication Technology : Microsystem Technology (MEMS/NEMS) : Definition and classification of microsystems. Microfabrication techniques including photolithography (process steps and masks), etching processes such as wet etching and dry etching (plasma, reactive ion etching - RIE), and deposition techniques including Physical Vapour Deposition (PVD) and Chemical Vapour Deposition (CVD). Doping and ion implantation. Micromachining processes : bulk micromachining, surface micromachining, LIGA process, and laser micromachining. Recent trends and applications including basics of nanofabrication, 3D micro/nano printing, lab-on-chip systems, and industrial and biomedical applications. (Chapter - 5) 5. Plastic Technology : Introduction; classification of plastics; ingredients of moulding compounds; general properties of plastics; plastic part manufacturing processes such as compression moulding, transfer moulding, injection moulding, extrusion moulding, blow moulding, calendaring, thermoforming, slush moulding, and laminating. (Chapter - 6)
