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Engineering Materials Practice Set-5

May 13, 2021

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1. The ability of a material to resist softening at high temperature is known as

Creep

Hot hardness

Fatigue

Hot tempering

2. A small percentage of boron is added to steel in order to

Increase endurance strength

Increase hardenability

Increase wear resistance

Reduce machinability

3. Brass is an alloy of

Copper, tin and zinc

Copper and zinc

Copper and tin

None of these

4. The steel widely used for motor car crankshafts is

Nickel steel

Chrome steel

Silicon steel

Nickel-chrome steel

5. Which of the following metal is used in making electrical resistance wire for electric furnaces and heating elements?

Phosphor bronze

Nichrome

Babbitt metal

Monel metal

6. The property of a material essential for spring materials is

Plasticity

Resilience

Ductility

Stiffness

7. Malleability of a material can be defined as

Ability to recover its original form

All of the above

Ability to undergo large permanent deformations in tension

Ability to undergo large permanent deformations in compression

8. Which of the following is not the correct method of increasing fatigue limit?

Cold working

Shot peening

Surface decarburisation

Nitriding of surface

9. In full annealing, the hypo eutectoid steel is heated from 30°C to 50°C above the upper critical temperature and then cooled

In still air

Suddenly in a suitable cooling medium

Slowly in the furnace

Any one of these

10. Recrystallization temperature is one

At which crystals grow bigger in size

At which crystals first start forming from molten metal when it is cooled

At which new spherical crystals first begin to form from the old deformed one when a strained metal is heated

At which change of allotropic form takes place

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11. Mild steel belongs to the following category

Low carbon steel

High carbon steel

Alloy steel

Medium carbon steel

12. Tin base white metals are used where the bearings are subjected to

Large surface wear

Light load and pressure

High pressure and load

Elevated temperatures

13. Which is false statement about case hardening? Case hardening is done by

Induction hardening

Electroplating

Cyaniding

Nitriding

14. The type of space lattice found in alpha-iron is

None of these

Face centered cubic space lattice

Close packed hexagonal space lattice

Body centered cubic space lattice

15. Delta iron occurs at temperature of

Room temperature

Between 910°C and 1400°C

Between 1400°C and 1539°C

Above melting point

16. The brown smoke during the operation of a Bessemer converter indicates that the

Silicon and manganese has burnt and carbon has started oxidizing

The brown smoke does not occur during the operation of a Bessemer converter

The converter must be titled to remove the contents of the converter

Air is burning out silicon and manganese

17. The percentage of carbon in low carbon steel is

0.5%

0.05%

0.15%

0.3%

18. When elements like nickel, chromium, copper and molybdenum are added to the molten cast iron, it produces

White cast iron

Malleable cast iron

Alloy cast iron

Nodular cast iron

19. The stiffness is the ability of a material to resist

Fracture due to high impact loads

Deformation under stress

None of the above

Externally applied forces with breakdown or yielding

20. Foundry crucible is made of

German silver

Mild steel

Lead

Graphite

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21. When low carbon steel is heated up to lower critical temperature

The grain size increases very rapidly

There is no change in grain size

The average grain size is a minimum

The grain size first increases and then decreases very rapidly

22. Iron-carbon alloys containing 1.7 to 4.3% carbon are known as

Eutectic cast irons

None of these

Hypereutectic cast irons

Hypoeutectic cast irons

23. Neutral solution is one which has pH value

Less than 7

Equal to 7

Greater than 7

pH value has nothing to do with neutral solution

24. Lead is poured into the joint between two pipes. These pipes may be made of

Cast iron

Concrete

Asbestos cement

Vitrified clay

25. Following elements have face-centered cubic structure

All of the above

A iron (below 910°C and between 1400 to 1539°C), W

Gamma iron (910° to 1400°C), Cu, Ag, Au, Al, Ni, Pb, Pt

Mg, Zn, Ti, Zr, Br, Cd

26. Closed packed hexagonal space lattice is found in

Gamma-iron, aluminium, copper, lead, silver and nickel

Alpha-iron, tungsten, chromium and molybdenum

Zinc, magnesium, cobalt, cadmium, antimony and bismuth

None of the above

27. The coordination number of a face centered cubic space lattice is

Twelve

Six

Eighteen

Twenty

28. Balls for ball bearings are made of

Carbon-chrome steel

Mild steel

Cast iron

Stainless steel

29. Materials after cold working are subjected to following process to relieve stresses

Annealing

Tempering

Hot working

Normalizing

30. The charge is fed into the blast furnace through the

Tyres

Throat

Bosh

Stack

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31. Which of the following display properties similar to that of steel?

(C) Both (A) and (B)

(D) None of these

(B) Whiteheart cast iron

(A) Blackheart cast iron

32. White cast iron has

Low tensile strength

All of these

Carbon in the form of carbide

High compressive strength

33. The molecules in a solid move

In a haphazard way

Back and forth like tiny pendulums

In a random manner

In circular motion

34. Which is false statement about properties of aluminium?

Fatigue strength is not high

Modulus of elasticity is fairly low

Creep strength limits its use to fairly low temperatures

Wear resistance is very good

35. The ultimate tensile strength of low carbon steel by working at a high strain rate will

Decrease

First increase and then decrease

Increase

Remain constant

36. Slow plastic deformation of metals under a constant stress is known as

Endurance

Plastic deformation

Fatigue

Creep

37. The elastic stress strain behavior of rubber is

Plastic

No fixed relationship

Linear

Nonlinear

38. Which of the following constituents of steels is softest and least strong?

Cementite

Ferrite

Austenite

Pearlite

39. Isotropic materials are those which have the same

Stresses induced in all directions

Elastic properties in all directions

Electric and magnetic properties in all directions

Thermal properties in all directions

40. A material is known as allotropic or polymorphic if it

Exists in several crystal forms at different temperatures

Has a fixed structure under all conditions

Responds to heat treatment

Has its atoms distributed in a random pattern

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