ELEMENTS IN MACHINE DESIGN (J.T.) – MODULE 9 c.

Grain growth
d. Cold working
1. Vickers, Knoop and Brinell are all names of: 10. Which of the following ropes will be most flexible?
a. Nobel prize in winners in metallurgy a. 6 x 19
b. Thermodynamic constants b. 6 x 7
c. Hardness tests c. 8 x 19
d. Magnetic constants d. 6 x 37
2. Which of the following is not a method by which a single 11. Muntz-metal contains:
lap joint usually fails? a. Copper-nickel
a. The rivets shear b. Copper-zinc
b. The plate fails in bearing c. Copper-aluminum
c. The plate fails in tension d. None of these
d. The rivet fail in tension 12. Under very low deformation and at a high temperature,
3. Which type of the hardening will work to some extent in it is possible to have some plastic flow in a crystal at a
all metals? shear stress lower than the critical shear stress. What is
a. Austenizing the phenomenon called?
b. Annealing a. Slip
c. Work hardening b. Shear
d. Shot-peening c. Creep
4. What do impact tests determine? d. Bending
a. Toughness 13. Honing is used:
b. Yield strength a. To remove only small amount of metal
c. Hardness b. To correct axial run-out of a bore
d. Creep strength c. To correct out-of-roundness of a bore
5. The hardness of steel may be increased by heating to d. On surfaces brought to high degree to surface finish
approximately 1500o and quenching in oil or water if: 14. A special metal formed when two or more metals are
a. The carbon content is above 3.0% melted together.
b. The carbon content is from 0.2% to 2.0% a. Alloy
c. The carbon content is below 0.2% b. Compound
d. All carbon is removed and the steel contains only c. Titanium
chromium, nickel, manganese, or a combination of d. Brass
these 15. In a standard coarse thread bolt, the stress concentration
6. One of the main difference between cast iron and steel is is maximum at:
that: a. Root
a. Steel has a higher silicon content b. Top
b. Steel always contains alloying metals such as nickel, c. Pitch
chromium, manganese and vanadium d. Flank
c. Steel cannot be annealed whereas cast iron 16. Fatigue strength of a surface may be increased by:
d. Steel has a lower carbon content a. Cold working
7. The yield strength of common yellow brass (70% Cu, 30% b. Hot working
Zn) can be increased by: c. Polishing the surface
a. Annealing d. Quenching
b. Heat treatment 17. Belt slip may take place because of:
c. Cold working a. Loose load
d. Chill casting b. Driving pulley too small
8. Which of the following factors will affect the c. Heavy belt
hardenability of steel? d. All of the above
a. Composition only 18. The curve that is generally used as the profile of gear
b. Grain size only teeth:
c. Composition and grain size a. Hypoid
d. Cooling rate b. Epicycloids
9. The mechanical deformation of a material at a c. Involute
temperature above its recrystallization temperature is d. Cycloid
commonly known as: 19. In roller chain drive, the center-to-center distance
a. Hot working between the sprockets, as a general rule, should be
b. Strain aging between ___ times the pitch.

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 a. 30 to 50 a. The power to be transmitted is high
b. 45 to 65 b. The torque is high
c. 60 to 80 c. The speed is high
d. 75 to 95 d. Axial relative motion between shaft and hub is
20. A hydrostatic bearing is one in which: necessary
a. There is no lube oil 29. Instrument used to analyze the composition of metals:
b. Bearing is slightly loaded a. Spectrometer
c. Lube oil is not pressurized b. Radiometer
d. The lube oil is supplied under pressure c. Profilometer
21. A partial bearing is one in which: d. Ultimate analyzer
a. The bearing is supplied with less oil than full bearing 30. An impact test is used to test a metal for:
b. The bearing encloses less than 360 deg of the a. Toughness
journal b. Strength
c. The bearing is slightly loaded c. Ductility
d. The bearing is supplied with oil intermittently d. Hardness
22. For a completely corrosion-resistant stainless steel, what 31. Poisson’s ratio is the ratio of the:
minimum percentage of chromium in the alloy is a. Unit lateral deformation to the unit longitudinal
required? deformation
a. 3.2% b. Unit stress to unit strain
b. 7.3% c. Elastic limit to proportional limit
c. 11% d. Shear strain to compressive strain
d. 15% 32. Creep is the term used in referring to the:
23. Which of the following would most likely require a steel a. Elongation before yield point
containing 0.6% carbon that has been spheroidized, cold- b. Maximum stress of brittle materials
drawn, and slightly tempered? c. Fatigue limit of ductile materials
a. A ball bearing d. Continuous increase in the strain, or deformation,
b. A bridge beam of any material subjected to stress
c. A water pipe 33. Creep strength of a material is the:
d. A cutting tool a. Maximum stress before yield point
24. Modulus of elasticity of a steel member is: b. Constant stress to which a material is loaded, at a
a. A function of the length and width specified temperature and for a specified time, that
b. Defined as the unit shear stress divided by the unit will cause a further elongation
shear deformation c. Maximum stress before fatigue limit
c. Equal to the modulus of elasticity divided one plus d. Maximum stress before rupture of ductile materials
Poisson’s ratio 34. Which is not a heat treatment process?
d. Defined as the length divided by the moment of a. Sintering
inertia. b. Annealing
25. The property of matter which causes it to resist any c. Hardening
change in its motion or state of rest: d. Tempering
a. Momentum 35. When a steel is described as SAE 1320:
b. Inertia a. It is plain carbon steel
c. Impulse b. It is nickel-chromium steel
d. Friction c. It contains 18% to 23% carbon
26. Arc of the pitch circle through which a tooth travels from d. It contains 0.18% to 0.24% carbon
the point of contact with the mating tooth to the pitch 36. In roller chain drive, the chain should extend around at
point of a gear: least ___ degrees of the pinion circumference, and this
a. Arc of recess maximum amount of contact is obtained for all center
b. Arc of action distances provided the ratio is less than 3 ½ to 1:
c. Arc of approach a. 90
d. Arc of relief b. 105
27. Which of the following steel contains chromium? c. 120
a. SAE 2340 d. 135
b. SAE 4230 37. The circle form which an involute tooth of a gear is
c. SAE 5240 generated or developed:
d. SAE 1230 a. Root circle
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d. Mohr’s circle d. Monel
38. The product of the mass and the linear velocity of a 47. A kind of gear used for heavy duty work where a large
body: ratio of speed is required and are extensively used in
a. Angular impulse speed reducer.
b. Angular momentum a. Hypoid gear
c. Linear impulse b. Cycloid gear
d. Linear momentum c. Bevel gear
39. Steels containing large amounts of mild nickel and d. Worm gear
chromium: 48. A group of thin steel strip for measuring clearances:
a. Carbon steel a. Depth gage
b. Stainless steel b. Lien center gage
c. Alloy steel c. Feeler gage
d. Cast steel d. Lay-out gage
40. The stress in an elastic material is: 49. An imaginary circle passing thru the points at which the
a. Inversely proportional to the yield strength of the teeth of meshing gears contact each other:
material a. Pitch circle
b. Inversely proportional to the force acting b. Base circle
c. Proportional to the displacement of the material c. Addendum
acted upon by the force d. Dedendum
d. Proportional to the length of the material subject to 50. A device for accurately measuring diameter:
the force a. Feeler gage
41. The amount by which the width of a tooth space exceeds b. Laser
the thickness of the engaging tooth on the pitch circle of c. Micrometer
the gear: d. Diametometer
a. Clearance 51. A hand tool used to measure tension in bolts:
b. Tip relief a. Tensometer
c. Backlash b. Torque wrench
d. Chordal addendum c. Indexer
42. An impact test for which the specimen is supported at d. Torsiometer
one end as a cantilever 52. Distance from the center of one tooth of a gear to the
a. Izod test center of the next consecutive tooth measured on the
b. Charpy test pitch:
c. Brinell test a. Diametral pitch
d. Endurance test b. Pitch circle
43. Permissible variation of size of a dimension: c. Circular pitch
a. Clearance d. Module
b. Variation 53. The process of heating a piece of steel to a temperature
c. Tolerance within or above the critical range and cooling rapidly:
d. Deviation a. Annealing
44. Heating or cooling of steel that produces a rounded form b. Normalizing
of carbide: c. Hardening
a. Normalizing d. Quenching
b. Embrittleness 54. A machine tool in which metal is removed by means of a
c. Spheroidizing revolving cutter with many teeth, each tooth having a
d. Annealing cutting edge which removes its share of the stock.
45. Heating and slow cooling of metal: a. Milling machine
a. Normalizing b. Lathe
b. Annealing c. Drill
c. Surface hardening d. Grinder
d. Cold rolling 55. Welding operation in which a non-ferrous filler metal
46. Steel that has been deoxidized with a strong deoxidizing melts at a temperature below that of the metal joined
agent such as silicon or aluminium in order to eliminate but heated above 450 C.
oxygen and carbon reaction during solidification: a. Filler weld
a. Rimmed steel b. Soldering
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56. The process of checking or producing checkers on the cutting tool having several cutting edges:
surface of a piece by rolling checkered depression into a. Planning
the surface: b. Reaming
a. Indexing c. Boring
b. Knurling d. Drilling
c. Quenching 66. Kind of chuck which has five reversible jaws which could
d. Soldering be adjusted properly:
57. Steels can be strengthened all of the following EXCEPT: a. Universal chuck
a. Annealing b. Live chuck
b. Quenching and tempering c. Chuck Connors
c. Work hardening d. Independent chuck
d. Age precipitation 67. The maximum bending moment of a beam simply
58. Modulus of resilience is: supported on both ends and subject to total load W
a. The same as the modulus of elasticity uniformly distributed over its length L is expressed by the
b. A measure of the materials ability to store strain formula:
energy a. WL/8
2
c. Reciprocal of modulus of elasticity b. WL /8
d. Measure of the deflection of a member c. WL/2
59. The linear portion of the stress-strain diagram of steel is d. WL/4
known as: 68. When machining nickel alloys the best type of cutting
a. Modulus of elasticity fluid is:
b. Plastic range a. Sulfurized oil
c. Elastic range b. Straight mineral
d. None of the above c. Soluble oil
60. The area of the shear diagram of a beam between any d. All of these
two points on the beam is equal to the: 69. Hardening the surface of iron based alloys by heating
a. Change in shear between two points them below the melting point in contact with the
b. Average moment between the two points carbonaceous substance.
c. Change on moment between the two points a. Nitriding
d. Change in the deflection between the two points b. Cyaniding
61. The three moment equation may be used to analyze: c. Carburizing
a. Continuous beam d. Quenching
b. Beam loaded at the third points 70. The ratio of the stress acting on an elastic substance to
c. Three moment composite beam the decrease in volume per unit volume:
d. Axially-loaded beam a. Bulk modulus
62. Poisson’s ratio is the ratio of the: b. Poisson’s ratio
a. Unit lateral deformation to the unit longitudinal c. Volumetric ratio
deformation d. Strain
b. Unit stress to the unit strain 71. The maximum stress induced in a material subjected to
c. Elastic limit to proportional limit alternating or repeated loading without causing failure:
d. Elastic limit to ultimate strength a. Elasticity
63. A structure has five unknown reactions acting on the b. Endurance stress
structure. Three equations of static equilibrium have c. Yield stress
been written. To complete the analysis, which of the d. Ultimate stress
following equations would be needed? 72. A material that can wear away a substance softer than
a. Two dynamic equations itself:
b. Three member deformation equations a. Tungsten
c. Three more static equilibrium equations b. Abrasive
d. Two member deformation equations c. Corrosive
64. For most metals Poisson’s ratio lies in the range: d. Carbon
a. 0.25 – 0.35 73. In a long column (slenderness ratio < 160), which of the
b. 0.30 – 0.40 following has the greatest influence on its tendency to
c. 0.35 – 0.45 buckle under a compressive load?
d. 0.40 – 0.50 a. Modulus of elasticity
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d. None of the above b. SAE 1030
74. Materials, usually ceramics, employed where resistance c. AISI C1035
to a very high temperature is required, as for furnace d. SAE 6150
linings and metal melting pots. 84. Fluid film desire between two surfaces having relative
a. Bricks sliding motion:
b. Refractories a. Grease
c. Insulators b. Lubrication
d. Conductors c. Margin
75. Which process do not belong to the group? d. Clearance
a. Malleable iron 85. Which of the following is not a strength property of a
b. Gray iron material?
c. White iron a. Endurance strength
d. Head iron b. Tensile strength
76. Total deformation measured along in the direction of the c. Torsional strength
line of stress: d. Elastic resilience
a. Stress 86. The method of cold working by compression
b. Strain a. Reaming
c. Elongation b. Piercing
d. Yield line c. Tuning
77. An alloy of copper and zinc: d. Boring
a. Brass 87. An alloying element used principally to produce stainless
b. Zinc steel.
c. Bronze a. Zinc
d. Tin b. Tantalum
78. Which of the following metals is easy to chisel? c. Titanium
a. Cast iron d. Chromium
b. Alloy steel 88. A hydrostatic bearing is one which:
c. Cast steel a. The lube oil is supplied under pressure
d. Manganese steel b. There is marginal lubrication
79. The commonly used joint in cast iron pipe: c. The lube oil is not pressurized
a. Bell and spigot joint d. The bearing is lightly loaded
b. Compression joint 89. The process of working metals by the application of
c. Expansion joint sudden blows on by a steady pressure.
d. None of the above a. Casting
80. A machine tool used principally to machine flat or plane b. Forging
surfaces with a single pointed cutting tool. c. Tempering
a. Shaper d. Peening
b. Planer 90. Herringbone gears are gears which:
c. Hacksaw a. Do not operate on parallel shafts
d. Drill b. Have a line contact between the teeth
81. The maximum stress to which a material can be c. Consist of two left handed helical gears
subjected to without a trace of any permanent set d. Tend to produce and trust on the shafts
remaining upon a complete withdrawal of the stress. 91. Subjecting a substance to a high temperature below the
a. Yield stress fusion point, usually to make it friable.
b. Elastic limit a. Calcinations
c. Fracture b. Fusion
d. Ultimate strength c. Boiling
82. Usually copper-tin alloy: d. Forging
a. Brass 92. A machining operation whereby the tool reciprocates
b. Bronze and the feed is stationary is called:
c. Monel a. Planing
d. Inconel b. Shaping
83. A hollow shaft made of plain carbon steel contains 0.35% c. Turning
carbon is mounted on beatings 20 ft apart. The material d. Reaming
of the shaft will composed of: 93. The clearance between tooth profiles of gear tooth

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b. Dedendum
c. Addendum
d. Backlash
94. The internal stresses existing in a welded connection are:
a. Not relieved by heat treatment
b. Not relieved when the weld is peened
c. Maybe relieved when the weld is peened
d. Relieved by x-rays analysis
95. Which of the following is not a kind of mandrel?
a. Expansion mandrel
b. Gang mandrel
c. Contraction mandrel
d. Taper mandrel
96. A non-ferrous all consist of nickel and copper:
a. Monel
b. Bronze
c. Tubing bronze
d. Brass
97. One of the following is not a tap used for cutting threads
in holes.
a. Tapping tap
b. Plug tap
c. Taper tap
d. Bottoming tap
98. A material is to be drawn into a wire. It must therefore
possess the property of:
a. Toughness
b. Ductility
c. Malleability
d. Hardness
99. When cast steel is used for the body of machine it is used
because:
a. It has non-magnetic properties
b. It has good-self lubricating properties
c. It is cheap
d. It is strong in tension
100. One of the following is unsuitable for bearings.
a. White metal
b. Mild metal
c. Cast iron
d. Nylon
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