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1. Introductory Topics:
Layout of an automobile. Functions of main components and assemblies. Development. Types of
automobile vehicle. General and technical information regarding cars, passengers, trucks, three
wheelers, two wheelers and tractors.
2. Performance of Vehicles:
Resistance to motion – air, rolling and grade resistance. Power requirement. Traction and tractive
effort. Road performance curves. Equivalent weight, gear ratio for maximum acceleration etc. and
their calculations.
3. Power Unit:
Characteristics and comparison of SI and CI engines. Testing and performance of I.C. engines,
power, fuel consumption, efficiencies and heat balance sheet. Friction power and its
measurement. Performance parameters. Performance curves for variable load and variable
speed operation of SI and CI engines. Supercharging and use of supercharged engines in
automobile. Gas turbine plant for automobile.
1. Transmission System:
Its purposes and components, Clutch – its function, principle working, types of clutch, single plate,
multi-plate and semi-centrifugal, centrifugal and diaphragm clutch, Calculation of power
transmitted and dimensions of clutch components, Fluid coupling, characteristics and advantages
of fluid fly wheel.
Gear and Gearbox, sliding mesh, constant mesh and synchromesh gearboxes. Epicyclic gearbox,
Calculation of gear ratios, sizes and teeth of gears.
Propeller shaft and universal joints, Differential and rear axle, Torque converter, Automatic
transmission.
4. Suspension System:
Necessity, Conventional and independent suspension systems, Advantages of independent
suspension, spring, Shock absorbers, sprung and unsprung weight, bouncing, pitching and rolling
of a motor vehicle.
6. Miscellaneous Topics:
Automobile air conditioning requirements, Car and bus air conditioning – components, layout and
working, Laboratory testing and road testing of motor vehicles, R.T.O. rules, Air pollution.