Dr.R.Panneerselvam, Professor (Retired), Pondicherry university with his forty years of teaching and research experience at Pondicherry university and earlier at Anna university, Chennai, and Dr.P.Sivasankaran, Associate Professor, Mechanical Engineering Department, Christ College of Engineering and Technology, Puducherry with his fourteen years of teaching and research experience, developed this text on 'Manufacturing Process: A Complete Text', which provides a comprehensive treatments of all the elements of manufacturing process.
The text begins with introducing factory system, need of products made by industries, importance of manufacturing process, types of manufacturing processes and machine tools.
Chapter 2 on sand casting presents history of casting, types of casting process, elements of sand casting, pattern making, types of sands, properties of sand-casting mould, steps of sand casting, core, and gate and its types. Chapter 3 presents moulding machines and melting furnaces. Chapter 4 presents special casting processes, which include shell casting, investment casting, ceramic mould casting, pressure diecasting, and casting techniques for single crystal components. It is followed by a presentation of different casting defects.
Chapter 5 includes key terminologies of welding, gas welding techniques. Next, the chapter 6 includes gas shield tungstan arc welding, metal arc welding, submerged arc welding, gas shield metal arc welding, flux cored arc welding, electro slag welding, electro gas welding, stud welding. carbon arc welding and atomic hydrogen welding. It is followed by Chapter 7 presents resistance spot welding, resistance seam welding, upset welding, projection welding, percussion welding, and flash welding. Chapter 8 presents plasma arc welding, electron beam welding, laser beam, and welding.
Chapter 9 gives a comprehensive treatment of advanced welding methods. Next chapter 10 presents stress-strain curve of metal forming process, hot working and cold working of metals, forging processes. Further, the characteristics of forging process, and the types of forging operations are also presented. Chapter 11 presents types of rolling, and defects in rolled parts. Chapter 12 is on the principles of drawing and extrusion under bulk deformation processes, which covers types of drawing, extrusion,
Chapter 13 presents initial topics of sheet metal processes. These includes sheet metal characteristics, sheet metal operations, viz. shearing, bending, and drawing. Next, Chapter 14 gives a comprehensive presentation of further topics of sheet metal processes. These includes types of stretch forming operation, viz. simple stretch forming, tangential stretch forming, Cyril-Bath Process for stretch forming and multi axial stretch forming, formability of sheet metal, and test methodologies. Chapter 15 presents hydro forming, warm/ hot forming, solid granular medium forming, metal pinning, explosive forming, magnetic pulse forming, peen forming, super plastic forming, micro forming, and incremental forming. Chapter 16 on the types and characteristics of plastic presents origin of plastic, plastic and its constituents, distinction between thermoplastic and thermosetting plastic, characteristics of plastic, and types of thermoplastics, and types of thermosetting plastic. At the end, a chapter on the types of thermoplastic moulding, thermoforming, and bonding of thermoplastics. This text is written in easy to read style.
R.Panneerselvam, B.E., M.E., Ph.D.
P.Sivasankaran, B.E., M.E., Ph.D.