Half of the battle is already won if you have the right books for the challenging GATE exam! Yes, you read it right.  

To fulfil a dream as big as cracking the GATE Mechanical Engineering (ME) exam, you should have the best study material at your hand. You could have a well-structured study plan and all the time at your hand, but if you don’t have the best books to refer to, you will indeed lag in your GATE exam preparation.

Mechanical Engineering is one of the most popular streams where students opt for this paper as the mechanical branch through GATE opens the gateway to some elite PSUs like Indian Oil, ONGC, NTPC, DRDO, HPCL, BPCL etc.  

To streamline your preparation process, we have compiled a list of the best books for GATE Mechanical Engineering. Refer to these books to get an edge in your exam preparation.

GATE Mechanical Engineering Best Books

Refer to the below-mentioned books to ace the GATE ME exam with flying colours.

Section	Topics	Important Books
Engineering Materials	Basic Crystallography Mechanical Properties Phase Diagrams Phase Transformations Heat Treatment of Steels	William Callister KM Gupta
Thermodynamics	Basic Thermodynamic Concepts Energy Transfer & Analysis Second Law of Thermodynamic Entropy Availability & Irreversibility Properties of Pure Substance Thermodynamic Property Relations	Yunus Cengel PK Nag Onkar Singh
Refrigeration & Air-Conditioning	RC & Reversed Carnot Cycle Refrigerants Vapour Compression System Psychrometry of AC Processes	CP Arora Bill Whitman RS Khurmi
Internal Combustion Engine	Air-Standard Cycle Combustion of Fuel & Knocking Engine Performance Parameter Fuels Emission & Emission Control	V Ganesan ML Mathur
Power Plant Engineering	Steam Generators Analysis of Steam Cycles Fuels and Combustion Gas Turbines & Compressors	PK Nag AK Raja RK Rajput S Ramachandran
Heat and Mass Transfer	Basic Heat Transfer Concepts Heat Transfer by Conduction Heat Transfer by Convection Heat Exchangers Heat Transfer by Radiation	Incropera  PK NAG Cengel RC Sachdeva JP Holman
Fluid Mechanics	Fundamental Concepts Fluid Statics Differential Analysis of FM Dynamics of Fluid Flow Internal Incompressible VF External Incompressible VF	Fox and Donald Frank M White Cengel K Subramanya Modi and Seth RK Bansal
Turbo Machinery	Hydraulic Turbine Centrifugal Pumps Reciprocating Pumps	Fox and Donald Frank M White Cengel K Subramanya Modi and Seth RK Bansal Jagdish Lal
Engineering Mechanics	Analysis of System of Forces Plane Trusses & Virtual WorkMotion	RC Hibbeler Timoshenko UC Jindal J.L MERIAM SS Bhavikatti
Strength of Material	Mechanical Properties of Material Simple Stresses & Strains Composite System & Thermal Stresses Complex and Principal Stresses BM & SF Slope & Deflection Torsion of Shafts Strain Energy & Springs Pressure Vessels	Beer Johnston James M.Gere Timoshenko BC Punmia S Ramamrutham
Theory of Machines	Mechanism and Machines Velocity & Acceleration Analysis Cams Gear GearTrains Balancing Gyroscope Governors and Flywheel Vibrations	SS Rattan Shigley VP singh
Design of Machine Elements	Static and Fluctuating Load Theories of Failure Shaft, Keys, Couplings & Spring Brakes Clutches Bearings Gear and Flywheel	Shigley VB Bhandari Robert Norton
Industrial Engineering	Inventory Control Aggregate Production Planning Material Requirement Planning Forecasting Line Balancing Sequencing and PERT-CPM Linear Programming Problem Computer Programming	OP Khanna Hira and Gupta Kanti Swaroop ND Vohra Ravi Shankar
Manufacturing Engineering	Metal Casting Metrology and Inspection Metal Welding Fundamentals of Machining Metal Forming Automation	Mikkel Groover Chattopadhyay Ghosh and Malik PN Rao PC Sharma

 Also read: GATE Preparation Tips For Mechanical Engineering

GATE 2022 Mechanical Engineering Exam Pattern

Particulars	Details
Exam Duration	3 hours
Number of Questions	65
Total Marks	100
Types of Questions	Multiple Choice Questions (MCQ) Multiple Select Questions (MSQ) Numerical Answer Type (NAT) Questions
Sections	General Aptitude (15 Marks) Engineering Mathematics (13 Marks) Technical (72 Marks)
Marking Scheme	For 1 mark MCQ, 1/3 mark will be deducted for every wrong answer. For 2 marks MCQ, 2/3 marks will be deducted for every incorrect response. There is no negative marking for NAT and MSQs

Also read: Tips To Prepare Engineering Mathematics For GATE 2022

It is imperative to solve previous year’s question papers and attempt Mock Tests on a regular basis to make the most of these books.

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