IMPORTANT INFO ON GATE AND BOOKS NAME FOR GATE PREPARATION FROM MECHANICAL ENGINEERS

INFORMATION ON GATE FOR BEGINNERS AND ASPIRANT

GATE 2015- Mechanical Engineering happens to be one of the more popular papers in GATE with 1,85,578 aspirants in GATE 2014 for Mechanical Engineering. This shows that GATE 2015 paper for Mechanical Engineering will see a similar or even a higher number of aspirants raising the bar of the exam. In such a scenario, it is imperative that the GATE 2015 Preparation for Mechanical engineering be equally intense.

First take a look at the Syllabus for Mechanical Engineering in GATE 2015

Experts and toppers alike have emphasized that there is not short cut to success in GATE and that each topic is important. Hence it is advisable for students to divide their GATE syllabus into parts so that each can be tackled in detail and to satisfaction. It has to be mentioned here that the complete syllabus is important and successful preparation means covering it all.

Some of the Important Topics that candidates need to be well versed in are:

Mathematics
Manufacturing science/ Production technology
Industrial engineering
Thermodynamics
Fluid Mechanics
Heat Transfer
SOM
TOM
Design
RAC
Powerplant
IC engines
Engineering Materials and Engineering Mechanics

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Reference Books for GATE 2015 Preparation for Mechanical Engineering:

Here it may be said that students need to be good with their concepts and that comes with building the conceptual base in a gradual manner. A look at the study methodologies of most of the toppers shows that they have all concentrated in getting their subject concepts right.

Some books that can be referred to are:

Strength of Materials by Gere and Timoshenko, B C Unamia, Sadhu Singh, Ramamrutham
Material Science: WD Callister, IP Singh
Theory of machines by SS Ratan
Theory of Machines: RS Khurmi, Malik & Ghosh
Mechanical Vibration by Grover

Design

Machine Design by Shigley and V B Bhandari
Machine Design by Khurmi, Bhandari

Heat-Transfer

Heat and Mass Transfer by J P Hollman and R C Sachdeva
Heat and Mass Transfer: JP Hollman, RC Sachdeva, Cengel

Thermodynamics:

Engineering Thermodynamics by P K Nag and RajputThermodynamics :by Cengel.
IC Engine by M L Mathur and R P Sharma

Fluid

Fluid Machinery: Jagdish Lal, RK Bansal
Fluid Mechanics by R K Bansal

Fluid Mechanics: Modi & Seth, RK Bansal, Cengel
Compressible Flow: SM Yahya
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning by C P Arora and Domkundwar
Gas Turbine and Propulsive Systems: PR Khajuria & SP Dubey

Industrial Engineering

Production Engineering by Kalpkjian Schmid, Amitabh Ghosh and A K Malik
Industrial Engineering by O P Khanna, Buffa and Sarin

Operations Research: Kanti Swarup

Engineering Mathematics 

Higher Engineering Mathematics by B.S.Grewal

Intermediate Mathematics, S.chand publications by B.V.Sastry , K.Venkateswarlu ( if i remember ) both the volumes.
Probability , statistics and queuing theory by S.C.Gupta & V.K.Kapoor
Numerical Methods by S.S.Sastry

Applied Mechanics and Design

Engineering Mechanics
Engineering Mechanics by Bhavikatti
Engineering Mechanics by Beer and Johnston,
Engineering Mechanics by R K Rajput