About the Authors

Basant Agrawal

He is a Sr. Lecturer in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at SGSITS Indore and presently pursuing a Ph.D. from IIT Delhi. With over ten years of teaching experience, his areas of interests include thermodynamics and heat engines, heat transfer, refrigeration systems, I.C. engines, steam turbines, etc. He has published 30 research papers in various international / national journals and conferences. With a B.E. and M.Tech. from MANIT Bhopal, he is a gold medalist in M.Tech. from Rajiv Gandhi Technical University, Bhopal.

Dr. C. M. Agrawal

He is a Dean (Academic) and Professor in the Department of Mechanical Engineering at MANIT Bhopal. With over thirty-nine years of teaching experience for UG and PG levels and guiding research scholars, he has published and presented 47 research papers in various international / national journals and conferences. With a B.E. from BIT Sindri in 1968, M.Tech. and Ph.D. from IIT Kharagpur, he received “Best Application Oriented Paper Award” at AIMTDR Jadavpur University, in 1988.

Acknowledgements

Authors of the book are thankful to the editorial and production staff, Ms Vibha Mahajan, Ms Shalini Jha, Ms Tina Jajoriya, Ms Sohini Mukherjee and Ms Suneeta S Bohra, at Tata McGraw Hill Education for their assistance and cooperation.

About the Book

This book is designed to suit the core engineering course on engineering drawing. This book has been written for the first year students of all branches of BE Degree course with intention of developing basic concepts of engineering drawing in the minds of students. With the right blend of theory and the wide variety of problems, the book is a perfect offering on the subject. Three dimensional illustrations have been used to explain and clarify the subject matter. Numerous solved examples are presented to make understanding the content of the book easy. Objective type questions have been provided at the end of each chapter to help the students to quickly review the concepts.
Only one of its kind, a single book that covers the whole syllabus completely.

Salient Features:

• Latest BIS codes are used (SP 46:2003)
• Excellent 3D illustrations
• Use of the latest version of graphics software (AutoCAD 2008)
• Step-by-step explanation in a simplified manner
• Wide variety of solved problems from the question paper of various universities
• Answers to all multiple choice questions
• Excellent pedagogy and student-friendly format
• 700 Illustrations and line diagrams
• 540 Solved examples
• 190 Review questions
• 210 Multiple choice questions
• 630 Chapter-end-problems

Chapter Organisation

Chapter 1 provides the list of essential drawing equipment and instruments required in engineering graphics and their uses. Chapter 2 highlights the recommendations of The Bureau of Indian Standardsin its bulletin 'SP46:2003 Engineering Drawing Practices for Schools and Colleges'. Chapter 3 reviews the elementary geometrical constructions. Chapter 4 describes the different types of engineering scales and their typical applications. Chapter 5 and chapter 6 deal with the construction of curves used in engineering practice.

Chapter 7 begins with the fundamentals of irthographic projections. Chapter 8 through 12 present the orthographic projections of points, straight lines, planes, solids and section of solids. Chapter 13 describes the development of surfaces as applied to sheet metal work. Chapter 14 deals with the curves of intersection of interpenetrating solids. It is recommended that beginners read chapter 8 through 14 in the same chronological order as given in the book. Chapter 15 through chapter 17 describes the principal methods of construction of pictorial views.