MDSP FEBRUARY 2020 SET A B.

S Monel
C. KR Monel
INSTRUCTION: Select the correct answer for each of D. K Monel *
the following questions. Mark only one answer for each
item by marking the box corresponding to the letter of 9. A flat belt 4 in and 3/16 in thick operates on pulleys
your choice on the answer sheet provided. of diameter 5 and 15 inches transmits 10 hp. The
STRICTLY NO ERASURES ALLOWED. Use pencil No.2 friction coefficient between the belt and the pulleys
only. is 0.30. The belts specific weight is 0.04 lb/cu. in.
The pulleys are rotating at 1500 rpm and they are 5
1. The train value of gear train is _______. feet apart. Calculate effective belt pull.
A. equal to the speed ratio A. 124 lb
B. double the speed ratio B. 178 lb
C. half of the speed ratio C. 156 lb
D. reciprocal of the speed ratio * D. 168 lb *

2. A hoist lifts a 3000-kg load a height of 8m in a time 10. A solid steel machine shaft with a safe shearing
of 20s. Compute the efficiency of the hoist if the stress of 7000 psi transmits a torque of 15,500 in-
power is supplied to the engine is 18 hp. lb. What is the length of the square key if it is 1.5
A. 78% times the diameter of the shaft?
B. 88% * A. 2.0 in.
C. 80% B. 2.5 in.
D. 86% C. 1.75 in.
D. 3 in. *
3. Neglecting spoke effect, calculate the energy stored
in the rim of a flywheel made of cast iron 24 in. in 11. A helical extension spring is wound from 0.07 in.-
diameter, having a rim 5 inches wide by 4 inches diameter wire with a mean diameter of helix of 0.75
deep when running at 1000 rpm. The internal radius inch. Find the approximate value of the load that the
of the rim is 8 inches. Note: density of a material is spring can sustain before noticeable deflection
450 lb/cu.ft. occur. Note: shearing stress us 21,000 psi.
A. 40, 122.28 ft-lb * A. 2.78 lb
B. 38, 614.21 ft-lb B. 4.37 lb
C. 58, 234.36 ft-lb C. 3.57 lb *
D. 50, 165.32 ft-lb D. 5.76 lb

4. A wet, steel-backed asbestos clutch with hardened 12. A flanged coupling is designed to use 6 bolts on a 4-
steel plates is being designed to transmit 33 N-m. in diameter bolt circle. The allowable stress in shear
The coefficient of friction is 0.12. Slip will occur at is 12,000 psi; the maximum torqued is 50 ft-lbf.
300% of the rated torque. The maximum and Find the diameter of the bolt required.
minimum friction surface diameters are 115 mm A. 0.032 in
and 65 mm respectively. The contact pressure is B. 0.064 in
700 kPa. How many plates are needed? C. 0.073 in *
A. 4 * D. 0.086 in
B. 6
C. 3 13. Projection welding belongs to what category of
D. 5 welding process?
A. Arc welding
5. Calculate the cutting speed in feet per minute if the B. Gas welding
spindle speed of a ¾ in drill is 400 rpm. C. Resistance welding *
A. 157 fpm D. Forge welding
B. 36 fpm
C. 15.24 fpm 14. A large hangar door is required to be stopped at the
D. 78.5 fpm * end of its travel by a constant force snubber. The
door weighs 10,000 lbs and its speed is 1 ft/s when
6. A 60-inch diameter steel pipe, 3/8 thick, carries it strikes the snubber. What constant force is
water under a pressure head of 550 ft. Determine required by the snubber to stop the door within a
the hoop stress in the steel? distance of 1 ft.?
A. 19, 000 psi * A. 310.56 lbs
B. 11, 200 psi B. 301.65 lbs
C. 38, 000 psi C. 155.28 lbs *
D. 12, 400 psi D. 128.55 lbs

7. A spring has a natural length of 10 inches when at 15. A heavy-duty sleeve bearing is used with good
rest. If force 10 lbs is required to stretch it 1 inch, ventilation. The bearing has a diameter of 2 in and
find the work required to stretch the spring from a a length of 4 in. The load on the bearing is 2200 lb.
total length of 13 inches to 15 inches? A shaft rotates 200 rpm in the bearing. Find the heat
A. 6.667 ft-lbf * radiating capacity. The coefficient of friction is 0.02.
B. 23.333 ft-lbf A. 0.7404 Btu/min-sq.in *
C. 3.33 ft-lbf B. 0.8765 Btu/min-sq.in
D. 0.6667 ft-lbf C. 0.7654 Btu/min-sq.in
D. 0.8043 Btu/min-sq.in
8. It is an age hardenable wrought alloy which has
mechanical properties comparable to those of heat- 16. If the machining time to drill a hole 20 mm diameter
treated alloy steel of the same order of hardness is 19.5 seconds in a workpiece 30 mm thick with a
and resistance to corrosion similar to that of monel. feed of 0.2 mm/rev., what is the cutting speed?
What is this alloy of nickel? A. 35 m/min *
A. R Monel B. 50 m/min
 C. 20 m/min 26. An inclined plane 5 m long has its upper end 1 meter
D. 45 m/min above the ground. A load of 100 N is pushed up the
plane against a force of friction of 5 N. What is the
17. Kevlar epoxy composite is widely used in _____. actual mechanical advantage?
A. interior decoration A. 1.25
B. navy B. 4 *
C. aerospace C. 5
D. automobiles * D. 0.8

18. Find the root area of a 1-inch bolt, which has 8 V 27. Springs A and B have spring constants of 2 kN/m
threads per inch. and 1 kN/m respectively. Spring A is hung from a
A. 0.345 sq. in rigid horizontal beam and its other end is attached
B. 0.785 sq. in to an end of spring B. The pair of springs is then
C. 0.482 sq. in * used to suspend a body mass of 50 kg from the
D. 0.314 sq. in lower end of spring B. What is the period of
harmonic oscillation of the system?
19. An interrupted quenching process resulting in an A. 1.09
austenite to martensite transition is ________. B. 1.72 *
A. Normalizing C. 1.45
B. Martempering * D. 2.01
C. Austenitizing
D. Austempering 28. Hand sheers can be used for cutting sheets up to
_____.
20. A pair of mating spur gears have 14 ½ deg. Full A. 0.2 mm
depth involute teeth of 2 ½ diametral pitch. The B. 0.8 mm *
pitch diameter of the smaller gear is 6.4 inches. If C. 0.4 mm
the transmission ratio is 3 to 2. Calculate the D. 1.6 mm
dedendum.
A. 0.0628 in. * 29. A disk brake has two pads of included angle of 45
B. 0.862 in. deg each. Outside radius 6 in. Inside radius 4 in.
C. 0.426 in. Coefficient of friction 0.4. Maximum lining pressure
D. 0.4 in. 100 psi. Find the torque capacity for both shoes.
A. 1256.6 in-lb
21. A mass, m, of 0.020 kg is hanging from a spring B. 2513.2 in-lb *
whose spring constant, k, is 0.44 N/m. If the mass C. 2143.5 in-lb
is pulled down and released, what is the period of D. 628.3 in-lb
oscillation?
A. 1.34 s * 30. Two sheets of aluminum on an aircraft wing are to
B. 0.50 s be held together by aluminum rivets of cross-
C. 1.5 s sectional area of 0.25 sq. in. The shearing stress on
D. 2.1 s each rivet must not exceed one-tenth of the elastic
limit for aluminum. How many rivets are needed if
22. A helical-coil spring has a mean diameter of 1 inch each rivet supports the same fraction of a total
and a wire diameter of 1/8 in. If the shearing stress shearing force of 25,000 kN? Assume that the
is 60,000 psi, how much load can it support? elastic limit stress is 131 Mpa.
A. 41.8 lb A. 10 rivets
B. 24.5 lb B. 20 rivets
C. 53.4 lb C. 35 rivets
D. 38.7 lb * D. 53 rivets *

23. A punch press is to have a capacity of 8000 lb 31. A copper column of annular cross section has an
through a – inch stroke. For the efficiency and cost outer diameter of 5m, and is subjected to an axial
a small motor, a flywheel was used. What flywheel loading of 200 kN. The allowable compressive stress
effect is required to maintain the flywheel within is 14.4 kPa. Compute the wall thickness.
20% of its no-load speed of 600 rpm? A. 1.15 m *
A. 1.5 in-lb-sec (squared) B. 2 m
B. 3.4 in-lb-sec (squared) C. 0.8 m
C. 2.8 in-lb-sec (squared) * D. 1 m
D. 3.2 in-lb-sec (squared)
32. The moment diagram for a cantilever beam
24. When crank rotates with uniform speed, it has ____ subjected to bending moment at the end of beam
acceleration only. will be _____.
A. tangential A. Rectangle *
B. radial * B. triangle
C. Coriolis C. elliptical
D. gyroscopic D. cubic parabola

25. Two extension springs are hooked in parallel and 33. A bridge’s steel midspan is to be installed at 35 deg.
support a load of 100 lb. One spring has a constant F during winter. Rivets holes at each end of the
of 50 lb/in and the other a constant of 100 lb/in. midspan must measure 54.7 ft from the center. The
What is the deflection of the load? I-beams for the midspan are prepared in a
A. 16.94 mm fabrication shop with a controlled temperature of 72
B. 76.3 mm * deg. F. Compute the change to the center distance
C. 0.667 mm that should be made when the rivet holes are drilled
D. 66.7 mm in the shop.
A. 4.0 mm *
 B. 0.12 mm 42. A spring has a natural length of 12 inches when at
C. – 0.12 mm rest. If force 10 lbs is required to stretch it 1 inch,
D. – 4.0 mm find the work required to stretch the spring from a
total length of 13 inches to 15 inches?
34. How many revolutions are needed to lift table of A. 6.667 ft-lbf
height 300 mm if a machine table is lifted by means B. 0.6667 ft-lbf
of a two-start screw thread which has a pitch of 6 C. 3.33 ft-lbf *
mm? D. 23.333 ft-lbf
A. 20
B. 50 * 43. Compute the shear strain if the shear stress of a
C. 30 material is given to be 5803 psi and its shear
D. 40 modulus of elasticity is 65 Gpa.
A. 2.4 x 10 (raised to -4) rad
35. A 2000-kg elevator rises from rest in the basement B. 2.14 x 10 (raised to -3) rad
to the fourth floor, a distance of 25 m. As its passes C. 6.15 x 10 (raised to -4) rad *
the fourth floor, its speed is 3 m/s. There is a D. 4.7 x 10 (raised to -4) rad
constant frictional force of 500 N. Calculate the work
exerted against friction. 44. Which of the following statement is INCORRECT?
A. 11.5 ft-lb A. Geneva mechanism is an intermittent motion
B. 12.5 ft-lb device
C. 9,218 ft-lb * B. Inversions of a mechanism are created by fixing
D. 12,405 ft-lb different links one at a time
C. Grubler’s criterion assumes mobility of a planar
36. Find the diametral pitch of a gear whose circular mechanism to be one.
pitch is 1.5 inch. D. Grashofs rule states that for a planar crank-
A. 1.0472 in rocker four bar mechanism, the sum of the
B. 4.71 in shortest and longest link lengths cannot be less
C. 2.094 in * than the sum of the remaining two link lengths.
D. 1 in *

37. A pair of mating spur gears have 14 ½ deg. Full 45. What is the diameter of the cylinder of a hydraulic
depth involute teeth of 2 ½ diametral pitch. The press with pressure of 1000 psi and cylinder wall
pitch diameter of the smaller gear is 6.4 inches, If thickness of 4 in? Allow a tensile stress of 2500 psi.
the transmission ratio is 3 to 2. Calculate the outside A. 14.29 in *
diameter of the pinion. B. 15 in
A. 7.2 in * C. 20 in
B. 6.5 in D. 20.46 in
C. 5.4 in
D. 3.2 in 46. A shaft B, turning 140 rpm, has pulley 4, 30 inches
in diameter keyed to it. Pulley 4 is belted to a pulley
38. A solid machine shaft with a safe shearing stress of 2, 20 inches in diameter keyed on a shaft A. Find
7000 psi transmits a torque of 10,500 in-lb. A the speed of pulley 2.
square key is used whose width is equal to the shaft A. 120 rpm
diameter and whose length is 1.5 times the shaft B. 360 rpm
diameter. What is the length of the key? C. 420 rpm
A. 7.5 cm * D. 210 rpm *
B. 2.9 cm
C. 4.9 cm 47. A gear set having a gear ratio of 3 is to be used at
D. 1.9 cm a center distance of 16 inches. If the gear has 80
teeth, what must be the circular pitch?
39. A triple threaded worm has a pitch diameter of 4 A. 26.6 mm
inches and an axial pitch of 0.75 in. Determine the B. 24.6 mm
lead angle. C. 25.6 mm
A. 11.45 deg D. 23.6 mm *
B. 10.15 deg *
C. 14.50 deg 48. What power is required to lift a load of 22.24 kN by
D. 12.54 deg means of a cable wrapped around the drum of a
hoist, the drum being 20 in. in diameter and is
40. What is the diameter of the rivet if the length of the making 24 rpm?
snap head rivet is 100 mm and the thickness is 50 A. 14.2 kW *
mm? B. 10.7 Hp
A. 53.64 mm C. 19 kW
B. 40.26 mm D. 38 Hp
C. 52.76 mm
D. 41.67 mm * 49. A mechanism starts from rest and accelerates at 50
rad/sec (squared). After 10 seconds, a bolt flies off.
41. A coil spring 2-in. in outside diameter made of 0.25- The bolt circle has a diameter of 12 inches. Calculate
in. wire is to support a mass of 100 lb, find the the speed of the bolt when it leaves the mechanism.
number of coils if it deflects 1.5 in. under the given A. 85 mph
load condition. Modulus of rigidity for steel is 11.5 x B. 1100 mph
10 (raised to 6) psi. C. 54 mph
A. 18 D. 170 mph *
B. 25
C. 16 * 50. A 6-in long ½ in diameter 304 stainless steel rod is
D. 21 being reduced in diameter to 0.480 in by turning on
a lathe. The spindle rotates at N = 400 rpm, and the
 tool is traveling at an axial speed of 8 in/min. and the cutting speed as given in the table is 85 fpm
Calculate the feed in inch per rev. and the selected feed rate is 0.008 inch per tooth.
A. 0.005 in/rev What is the approximate feed rate of milling a piece
B. 0.02 in/rev * of AISI 1040 steel having a hardness of 180 BHN?
C. 0.03 in/rev A. 5 inch/min
D. 0.01 in/rev B. 7 inch/min *
C. 10 inch/min
51. The energy of recoil of a rocket launcher of mass D. 9 inch/min
4536 kg is absorbed in a recoil spring. At the end of
the recoil, a damping dashpot engages so that the 59. Sevolute functions are used in calculating the form
launcher returns to the firing position without any diameter of involute splines. What is the sevolute of
oscillation (critical damping). The launcher recoils 3 20 degrees?
m with an initial speed of 12 m/s. Compute the recoil A. 2.77
spring constant. B. 1.049274 *
A. 40.5 kN/m C. 0.636
B. 25.3 kN/m D. 0.0149
C. 30.5 kN/m
D. 72.5 kN/m * 60. A pulley 2, 24 inches in diameter and keyed to a
shaft A turning 360 rpm, has belt connected to a
52. A helical coil spring has a mean coil diameter of 1 pulley 4, 36 inches in diameter, on another shaft B.
in. and a wire diameter of 1/10 inch. Determine the Find the speed of the pulley 4.
curve correction factor of the spring. A. 240 rpm *
A. 1.1414 B. 180 rpm
B. 1.1144 C. 360 rpm
C. 1.0903 * D. 120 rpm
D. 1.3090
61. A 1/8-in fillet weld 1 inch long carries a steady load
53. An 18-tooth straight spur gear transmits a torque of P lying along the weld. If the working stress in shear
1200 N-mm. the pitch circle diameter is 19 mm, and is taken as 11,300 psi. Calculate the load it can
the pressure angle is 14.5 ½. What is the radial carry.
force on the gear? A. 1345 lbf
A. 126.32 N * B. 896 lbf
B. 66.7 N C. 1000 lbf *
C. 133.3 N D. 1400 lbf
D. 63.15 N
62. A double thread worm has a pitch diameter of 3
54. When a coil spring with a spring scale of 100 lb/in is inches. The wheel has 22 teeth and a pitch diameter
compressed 1 ¼ inches, the coils are closed. The of 5. Find the gear helix angle.
allowable shearing stress is 50,000 psi and the A. 9.46 deg
spring index is 8, the ends are squared and ground, B. 4.69 deg
and G = 12 x 10 (raised to 6) psi. Calculate the coil C. 8.61 deg *
diameter. D. 6.18 deg
A. 1.96 in *
B. 1.54 in 63. A solid transmission shaft is 3.5 inches in diameter.
C. 0.872 in It is desired to replace it with a hollow shaft of the
D. 0.246 in same material and the same torsional strength, but
its weight should only be half as much of the solid
55. A pair of mating spur gears have 14 ½ deg. Full shaft. Find the difference of the outside and inside
depth involute teeth of 2 ½ diametral pitch. The diameter of the hollow shaft in mm.
pitch diameter of the smaller gear is 6.4 inches. If A. 20.34 mm *
the transmission ratio is 3 to 2. Calculate the root B. 10.99 mm
diameter of the pinion. C. 16.15 mm
A. 5.476 in * D. 34.02 mm
B. 3.132 in
C. 4.456 in 64. What is the length of a piece of stock with taper per
D. 4.146 in inch of 3/16 if it has a diameter of 3 inches at one
end and 1.5 inches at the other end?
56. If a 65-cm diameter, steel flywheel of constant A. 4 in
thickness is used, how thick should it be? The B. 10 in
specific gravity of steel is 7.85. The inertia of C. 8 in *
flywheel is 18.31 kg-m (squared). D. 6 in
A. 11.24 cm
B. 24.52 cm 65. A steel pipe is to be used to support a weight of 130
C. 12.54 cm kN. The pipe has the following specifications OD =
D. 13.33 cm * 100 mm, ID = 90 mm, A = 1500 sq. mm, I = 1.7 x
10 (raised to 6) (mm to the 4th). Take E = 210 Gpa
57. In double helical gears the helix angle may be made and yield stress = 250 Mpa. Find the critical load.
up to ____. Note: this is a cantilever column with k = 2.
A. 75 deg A. 2.60 m *
B. 60 deg B. 1.45 m
C. 30 deg C. 0.45 m
D. 45 deg * D. 3.20 m

58. A cutter is a 3-inch diameter high-speed steel plain 66. A 150 hp motor turns a shaft at 2400 rpm. the shaft
or slab milling cutter with 8 teeth. The width of the steps down in diameter from 3.0 to 2.5 inches.
cut is 2 inches, the depth of the cut is 0.062 inch,
 Calculate the maximum torsional shear stress if the C. 2460 in/s *
stress concentration factor is given to be 1.3. D. 62.5 in/s
A. 1800 psi
B. 1670 psi * 75. The mass of pole piece on an alternator is 10 kg and
C. 1720 psi its center of gravity is at 300 mm from the shaft
D. 1140 psi center. It is secured by 4 bolts and alternator runs
at 1000 rpm. What is the diameter of the bolts if the
67. A multiple-disc clutch consists of 10 steel discs and stress in them is not to exceed 40 MPa?
9 bronze discs. The effective outside and inside A. 12.16 mm
diameters are 8 inches and 6 inches respectively. If B. 14.24 mm
an axial force 120 lb is applied and the shaft turns C. 16.12 mm *
at 1000 rpm, find the horsepower capacity. Assume D. 12.44 mm
the coefficient of friction of 0.35 and uniform wear.
A. 42 hp * 76. A V-belt is 225 cm long and operates on sheaves of
B. 25 hp pitch diameters of 32 cm and 40 cm. Compute the
C. 55 hp center distance.
D. 20 hp A. 43 in
B. 30 in
68. The motion of a shaft in a circular hole is an example C. 56 in
of ____ motion. D. 22 in *
A. successful constraint
B. completely constraint 77. A fixture experiences a static stress of 3500 psi and
C. free dynamic stress of 4000 psi. The yield strength is
D. incompletely constraint * 43,000 psi, and the endurance strength is 8,820 psi.
The fatigue stress concentration factor is 1.2. What
69. Which type of key is used for mounting shifting is the approximate alternating stress?
gears in gear boxes? A. 21.5 ksi
A. Splines * B. 20 ksi
B. Saddle C. 2 Mpa
C. Square D. 13.8 Mpa *
D. Flat
78. A simple disc clutch has elements with outside and
70. A 60-kg motor sits on four cylindrical rubber blocks. inside radii of 250 mm and 100 mm respectively.
Each cylinder has a height of 3 cm and a cross- The axial force is 1200 N. If the coefficient of friction
sectional area of 15 sq. cm. The shear modulus for is 0.5, find the torque capacity based on uniform
this rubber is 2 Mpa. If a sideway force of 300 N is wear.
applied to the motor, how far will it move sideways? A. 105 N-m *
A. 0.025 cm B. 115 N-m
B. 0.25 cm C. 102 N-m
C. 0.075 cm * D. 150 N-m
D. 0.3 cm
79. What is most nearly the elongation of the aluminum
71. A 15 hp motor, whose speed is 1200 rpm is belt bar of length 2.5 ft (cross section of 3 cm x 3 cm)
connected to the drive shaft of a machine. The when loaded to its yield point? E = 69 Gpa, and
pulley A, on the armature shaft of a motor is 12 Syield = 255 Mpa. Neglect the weight of the bar.
inches in diameter while that of drive shaft, B, is 30 A. 12 mm
inches in diameter. What is the torque in the B. 15 mm
armature shaft? C. 2.8 mm *
A. 234 in-lb D. 9.3 mm
B. 788 in-lb *
C. 750 in-lb 80. A 350 m cable is suspended vertically. At any point
D. 135 in-lb along the cable, the strain is proportional to the
length of the cable below that point. If strain at the
72. The angle between the line of stroke (line of motion top of the cable is 0.0015, determine the total
of the follower) and the normal to the pitch curve at elongation of the cable.
any point is referred to as _____ angle. A. 0.2625 m *
A. prime B. 0.050 m
B. cam C. 0.10 m
C. pressure * D. 0.1532 m
D. profile
81. Which of the following Thermit welding procedures,
73. A 2-ft inside diameter spherical vessel has a wall produced high temperature?
thickness of 3 inches. Compute for the tensile at its A. The combustion of oxygen and acetylene
inner surface as caused by an internal pressure of B. An exothermal chemical reaction *
1500 psi and an external pressure of 300 psi. C. An electric arc
A. 3123.87 psi D. An electrical reaction
B. 4113.38 psi
C. 1833.33 psi * 82. Compute the length of a nut such that the shearing
D. 1244.25 psi failure of the threads shall equal to the tensile failure
load of the bolt when the shearing strength is 72%
74. Determine the maximum permissible velocity V in a of the tensile strength. Assume pitch diameter of the
cast iron thin rim of a flywheel if the maximum threads to be the same as the bolt diameter.
allowable tensile stress in cast iron is 4000 psi. The A. 0.4d
cast iron weighs 0.255 lb/cu. in. B. 0.2d
A. 24.60 in/s C. 0.9d
B. 1250 in/s D. 0.7d *
83. A 2 ft diameter solid disc flywheel weighs 200 lbs 92. An aluminum [shear modulus = 2.8 x 10 (raised to
and is designed to handle 1600 ft-lb kinetic energy 10) Pa] rod is 25 mm in diameter and 50 cm long.
change. Its upper speed is 40 fps. Find the One end is rigidly fixed to a support. Compute the
coefficient of regulation. torque that must be applied at the free end to twist
A. 0.491 the rod 5.2 ½ about its longitudinal axis?
B. 0.194 * A. 107 N-m
C. 0.419 B. 260 N-m
D. 0.149 C. 804 N-m
D. 195 N-m *
84. Two shafts are connected by spur gears. The pitch
radii of gears A and B are 4 inches and 20 inches 93. Find the maximum tensile stress caused by an axial
respectively. If shaft A makes 800 rpm and is load of 500 lb and a torque of 600 in-lb acting on a
subject to twisting moment of 1000 inch-pound. 1 – inch – diameter solid shaft. Note: SSmax = 307
What is the tooth pressure of gear B? A. 3943 psi
A. 250 lb * B. 3394 psi *
B. 150 lb C. 637 psi
C. 320 lb D. 3075 psi
D. 100 lb
94. When a coil spring with spring scale of 100 lb/in is
85. A 1 ¾ in. diameter shaft is supported by two sleeve compressed 1 ¼ inches, the coils are closed. The
bearings. The total load on the two bearings is 2800 allowable shearing stress if 50,000 psi and the
lb. What is the frictional force per bearing if the spring index is 8, the ends are squared and ground,
coefficient of friction between shaft and bearing is and G = 12 x 10 (raised to 6) psi. Calculate the
0.10 and the shaft rotates 200 rpm? required wire diameter.
A. 240 lb A. 0.453
B. 120 lb B. 0.246 in *
C. 140 lb * C. 0.342 in
D. 280 lb D. 0.342

86. The axial force required is 150 N when the capacity 95. A body hangs from an ideal spring. What is the
of the clutch is 8 kW at 500 rpm. What is the mean frequency of oscillation of the body if its mass, m, is
diameter of the active conical sections when the 0.015 kg, and k is 0.50 N/m?
cone clutch has an angle of 10 degrees and A. 0.66 Hz
coefficient of friction of 0.5? B. 0.92 Hz *
A. 508 mm C. 0.78 Hz
B. 808 mm D. 0.351 Hz
C. 608 mm
D. 708 mm * 96. A 8-ft-diameter spherical pressure vessel is made
by bolting two hemispherical flanged sections
87. What horsepower would be transmitted by a short together. How many 1-in diameter bolts are
shaft, 2 inches in diameter carrying two pulleys required to secure two halves if the pressure within
close to the bearings, if the shaft makes 360 rpm? the vessel is 25 psi? Use working stress of 15,000
A. 50 hp psi and a cross-sectional area of 0.551 sq. in for the
B. 76 hp * bolts.
C. 48 hp A. 24
D. 89 hp B. 22 *
C. 20
88. In sulfuric acid, which of the following is suitable for D. 28
handling acid in concentrations up to 50% and at a
temperature including the boiling point? 97. When more than one spring or resisting member
A. Hastelloy B shares the load, the relative stiffness is the ____.
B. Inconel X A. normal stress
C. Inconel B. rigidity *
D. Hastelloy A * C. stiffness
D. modulus of elasticity
89. A 100-lb body is being hoisted by a winch, the
tension in the hoisting cable being kept constant at 98. A coil spring 4 cm in outside diameter made of 5mm
120 lb. Calculate its acceleration. wire to support a mass of 45 kg, calculate the spring
A. 6.44 ft/sq. s * stress concentration factor.
B. 3.54 ft/sq. s A. 1.213
C. 5.48 ft/sq. s B. 1.718
D. 3.22 ft/sq. s C. 1.143
D. 1.071 *
90. What is the circular pitch of a spur gear with
clearance of 0.05 in? 99. A double threaded right-handed worm gear
A. 2 transmits 15 Hp at 1150 rpm. The pitch of the worm
B. 4 is ¾ inches and pitch diameter of 3 inches. The
C. 3 pressure angle is 14 degrees and the coefficient of
D. 1 * friction is 0.12. Compute for the tangential force on
the worm, express the answer in pounds.
91. What accounts for the backlash of spur gears? A. 840
A. Both module and pitch line velocity * B. 950
B. Pitch line velocity C. 498
C. Module D. 548 *
D. Tooth profile
100. Find the force required to punch a 25-mm hole in a
20-gage (0.9525 mm) steel plate if the shearing
strength of the material is 400 MN/m (squared).
A. 29.9 kN *
B. 22.4 kN
C. 32.4 kN
D. 24.5 kN

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