GATE Study Material for Mechanical engineering

Find below some of the good books for Mechanical engineering. There could be some more good books and the list can also vary from person to person. The intent is to give you an idea of the level of quality we were talking about.

Applied Mechanics and Design

Engineering Mechanics

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

Strength of Materials

Strength of Materials - Gere and Timoshenko, B C Unamia, Sadhu Singh, Ramamrutham
Strength of Materials - Beer Johnston and R K Bansal

Theory of Machines 

Theory of Machines - R S Khurmi, Malik and Ghosh
Theory of machines - Ratan

Vibrations

Mechanical Vibration - Grover

Design

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

Fluid Mechanics and Thermal Sciences

Fluid Mechanics

Fluid Mechanics - R K Bansal

Heat-Transfer

Heat and Mass Transfer - J P Hollman and R C Sachdeva
Heat Transfer - Cengel and Holman

Thermodynamics

Enginnering Thermodynamics - P K Nag and Rajput
Thermodyanmics - Cengel.

Applications

IC Engine - M L Mathur and R P Sharma
Refrigeration and Air Conditioning - C P Arora and Domkundwar

Manufacturing and Industrial Engineering

Engineering Materials

Materials Science - Callister and Narula
Material Science - WD Callister and I P Singh

Welding

Welding - Parmar

Computer Integrated Manufacturing

CAD/CAM - Zimmer and Grover, Ibrahim Zeid

Production, planning and Operation Research

Production Engineering - Kalpkjian Schmid, Amitabh Ghosh and A K Malik
Industrial Engineering - O P Khanna, Buffa and Sarin
Industrial Research - Mahajan
Manufacturing - Ghosh and Mallik, Kalpakjian
Operations Research - Kanti Swarup
Manufacturing - Hajra Choudary

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