Manufacturing Technology
Units
Unit 1: Metal Casting Processes
Sand Casting Sand Mould Type of patterns Pattern Materials Pattern allowances
Moulding sand Properties and testing
Cores Types and applications
Moulding machines
Melting furnaces Blast and Cupola Furnaces
Principle of special casting processes Shell investment Ceramic mould Pressure die casting Centrifugal Casting CO2 process Stir casting
Defects in Sand casting
Unit 2: Joining Processes
Fusion welding processes Gas welding Types Flame characteristics
Manual metal arc welding Gas Tungsten arc welding Gas metal arc welding Submerged arc welding Electro slag welding
Resistance welding Plasma arc welding Thermit welding Electron beam welding Friction welding Friction Stir Welding
Brazing and soldering
Weld defects types causes and cure
Unit 4: Sheet Metal Processes
Sheet metal characteristics shearing bending and drawing operations
Stretch forming operations
Formability of sheet metal Test methods
special forming processes Hydro forming Rubber pad forming Metal spinning
Introduction of Explosive forming magnetic pulse forming peen forming Super plastic forming Micro forming