HPSC AE Syllabus

Syllabus - AE Civil Engineering

(i) Building Materials and Construction- Stones, Timber, Bricks, Cement, Mortar, Concrete, Masonry, Steel.
(ii) Solid Mechanics- Stresses, Strains, Failures, Theories of Solid Material, Simple Bending and Torsion Theories, Shear Centre.
(iii) Graphic Static- Force Polygon, Stress diagram.
(iv) Structural Analysis - Analysis of trusses and frames, Introduction to plastic Analysis.
(v) Design of Metal Structure - Working stress and ultimate strength design of simple structures.
(vi) Design of Concrete and Masonry Structures- Design of masonry walls, working stress design of plain, reinforced, and prestressed concrete, ultimate strength design of reinforced and prestressed concrete.
(vii) Fluid Mechanics, Water Resources Engineering –Open channel, and pipe flow. Hydrology Design of canals and hydraulics structures.
(viii) Soil Mechanics and Foundation Engineering and their general principles. Strength parameters, Earth pressures Theories, Design of Shallow and Deep Foundations.
(ix) Transportation Engineering including Railway Engineering and Surveying, Roads Super-elevation, Ruling gradient pavements, Traffic controls, Design Considerations.
(x) Environmental Engineering – Water purifications, Sewerage treatment and disposal.
(xi) Construction Planning and Management – Elements of construction practice. Bar charts, CPM, PERT.

Syllabus - AE Mechanical Engineering

(i) Thermodynamics: Laws, Properties of ideal gases and vapors, Power Cycles, Gas Power Cycles, Gas Turbine Cycles, Fuels, and Combustion.
(ii) IC Engines: CI and SI engines Detonation, Fuel injection, and carburation. Performance and Testing. Turbojet and Turbo-prop Engines, Rocket Engines, Elementary Knowledge of Nuclear Power Plants, and Nuclear Fuels.
(iii) Steam Boiler, Engines, Nozzles and Steam Turbines Modern boilers, Steam Turbines types Flow of Steam through nozzles. Velocity diagrams for impulse and Reaction Turbines. Efficiencies and Governing.
(iv) Compressors, Gas Dynamics and Gas Turbines Reciprocating Centrifugal and axial flow compressor. Velocity diagrams, Efficiency, and Performance, Effect of Mechanical number on flow, isentropic flow. Normal Shocks and Flow through nozzles Gas Turbine Cycle with multistage compression. Reheating and Regeneration.
(v) Heat Transfer, Refrigeration and Air-conditioning, Conduction, Convection and Radiation, Heat exchangers, types, combined Heat Transfer, Overall Heat Transfer coefficient, Refrigeration and heat pump cycles. Refrigeration systems. Coefficient of performance. Psychometrics and psychometric chart, Comfort indices, Cooling, and dehumidification methods. Industrial-Air-conditioning Process. Cooling and heating loads calculations.
(vi) Prosperities and classification of fluid. Fluid statics, kinematics, and dynamics; principles and applications. Manometry and Buoyancy. The flow of ideal fluids. Laminar and turbulent flows, Boundary layer theory. Flow over immersed bodies. Flow-through pipes and open channels. Dimensional analysis and similitude technique. Non-dimensional specific speed and classification of fluid mechanics in general. Energy transfer relation performance and operation of pumps and of impulse and reaction water turbines. Hydrodynamic power transmission.
(vii) Theory of Machines: Velocity and acceleration (i) of moving bodies (ii) in machines. Klien’s construction, Inertia forces in machines. Cams, Gears, and Gearing. Flywheels and Governors, Balancing of Rotating and Re-ciprocating masses. Free and forced vibrations of systems. Critical speeds and whirling of shafts.
(viii) Machine Design: Design of Joints- Treaded fasteners and Power Screws-Keys, Kotters Coupling-Welded Joints. Transmission system-Belt and chain driveswireropes-shafts. Gears-*Siding and Rolling bearings.
(ix) Strength of Materials: Stress and strain in two dimensions; Mohr’s circles: relations between Elastic Constants. Beams-Bending moments, shearing forces, and reflection. Shafts-combined bending, direct and torsional stresses. Thick Walled cylinder and spheres under Pressure, Springs Struts, and columns, Theories of failure.
(x) Engineering Materials; Alloys and Alloying Materials, heat treatment; Composition, properties and uses, Plastics and other newer engineering materials.
(xi) Production Engineering: Metal Machinery: Cutting Tools: Tool Materials, Wear and Machinability, measurement of cutting forces. Process: Machining Grinding, Boring, Geer, Manufacturing, Metal forming, Metal Casting and jointing, Basic, Special Purpose, Programme and numerically controlled machine tools, Jigs and fixtures (locating elements). (xii) Industrial Engineering: Work-study and work measurement Wage incentive, Design of Production System and Product Cost, Principles of Plant layout.
(xiii) Production Planning and Control Material handling, Operations Research, Linear Programming queuing Theory, Value Engineering, Network Analysis CPM, and PERT. Use of computers