ME308 Computer Aided Design and Analysis
ME308 Computer Aided Design and Analysis
ME308 Computer Aided Design and Analysis
Credits Introduction
Text Books:
1. M.P. Groover, E.M. Zimmers, Jr.CAD/CAM; Computer Aided Design and Manufacturing,
Prentice Hall of India, 1987
2. T. R. Chandrupatla and A. D. Belagundu, Introduction to Finite Elements in Engineering, Pearson
Education, 2001
References:
1. Chris Mcmahon and Jimmie Browne - CAD/CAM – Principle Practice and Manufacturing
Management, Addision Wesley England,1998
2. D. F. Rogers and J. A. Adams, Mathematical Elements in Computer Graphics, McGraw-
Hill,1990
3. Daryl Logan, A First course in Finite Element Method, Thomson Learning,2007
4. David V Hutton, Fundamentals of Finite Element Analysis, THM,2003
5. Donald Hearn, M. Pauline Baker and Warren Carithers, Computer Graphics with open GL,
Pearson Education,2001
6. Grigore Burdea, Philippe Coiffet, Virtual Reality Technology, John Wiley and sons,2003
7. Ibrahim Zeid, CAD/ CAM Theory and Practice, McGraw Hill,2007
8. P. Radhakrishnan and S. Subramanyan, CAD / CAM / CIM, New Age Int. Ltd.,2008
Course Plan
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Module Contents Hours Sem.
Exam
Marks
Introduction to CAD , Historical developments, Industrial look at CAD,
Comparison of CAD with traditional designing, Application of 2
computers in Design
I Basics of geometric and solid modeling, Packages for 15%
CAD/CAM/CAE/CAPP 1
Hardware in CAD components, user interaction devices, design
database, graphic Standards, data Exchange Formats, virtual Reality. 4
III 15%
Plane surface, ruled surface, surface of revolution, tabulated cylinder, bi-
cubic surface, bezier surface, B-spline surfaces and their modeling 3
techniques.
Solid models and representation scheme, boundary representation,
constructive solid geometry. 3
IV 15%
Sweep representation, cell decomposition, spatial occupancy
enumeration, coordinate systems for solid modeling. 4
SECOND INTERNAL EXAM
Introduction to finite element analysis - steps involved in FEM-
Preprocessing phase – discretisation - types of elements 2
Part A
There should be 2 questions each from module I and II
Each question carries 10 marks
Students will have to answer any three questions out of 4 (3X10 marks =30 marks)
Part B
There should be 2 questions each from module III and IV
Each question carries 10 marks
Students will have to answer any three questions out of 4 (3X10 marks =30 marks)
Part C
There should be 3 questions each from module V and VI
Each question carries 10 marks
Students will have to answer any four questions out of 6 (4X10 marks =40 marks)
Note: Each question can have a maximum of four sub questions, if needed.