Books for GATE Preparation

List of books to be used for different subjects of mechanical engineering.

 1. Advanced Engineering mathematics by

•  a. Erwin kreyszig (John wiley & sons publication) (strongly recommended)

•  b. Dr.B.S.Grewal (Khanna publications) (strongly recommended) 

2. Engineering mechanic (statics and dynamics) by

•  a. Beer and Johnston (the Tata McGraw Hill publications) 

•  b. Prof. P.J.shah (few but various enough examples - good book)

 3. Strength of material by 

•  a. G.H.Ryder (English Language Book society) 

 4. Theory of machines by 

•  a. Amitabh Ghosh and Ashok kumar mallik ( Affiliated East –West press private Limited) 

• b. S.S. Rattan ( The Tata McGraw Hill publications) 

  5. Machine design by 

•  a. R.S.Khurami ( S.Chand & sons publication) 

6. Vibrations by 

•  a. V.P.singh 

 7. Fundamentals of thermodynamics by 

•  a. P.K.Nag (The Tata McGraw Hill publications) 

• b. Van Whylen (John wiley & sons publication) 

 8. Refrigeration and Air conditioning by 

•  a. R.K.Rajput (thermal science and engineering) (Laxmi publications) 

• b. http://nptel.iitm.ac.in/ This is the website developed by the IITs. 

9. Applied thermodynamics 

•  a. R.K.Rajput (thermal science and engineering) (Laxmi publications) 

10. Heat and Mass transfer by 

•  a. Yunus A.cengel (The McGraw-Hill companies)

11. Fluid mechanics and machines 

•  a. Dr.R.K.Bansal (Laxmi publications) (strongly recommended) 

• b. Yunus A.cengel (The McGraw-Hill companies) 

12. Manufacturing science by 

•  a. P.N.Rao (volume 2 and 3) (The Tata McGraw Hill publications) 

• b. Amitabh Ghosh and Ashok kumar mallik ( Affiliated East –West press Private limited) 

• c. P.C.Sharma d. S.Kalpakjian (Pearson Education) 

13. Management science and Operations management 

•  a. Hamdy A.Taha (operations research)( prentice hall of India privet limited) 

• b. William J. Stevenson ( introduction to management science)(IRWIN pub) 

• c. B.Mahadevan (Operations management) (Dorling Kindersley (India)Privet limited) 

• d. J.K.sharma (operations research) 

 Besides this previous 10 to 12 years solved GATE papers are needed.