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1. Above 3000psi, the usage for aircraft hydraulic pipe is
a. Al alloy
b. Stainless steel
c. Pure Al
b
2. For an aircraft with a hydraulic system that operates above 3000 psi, the fluid
line is most likely to be:
A) Pure Aluminium tubing.
B) Stainless steel tubing.
C) Aluminium alloy tubing.
b.
3. Which steel most closely resemble Inconel?
a. High carbon steel
b. Stainless steel
c. Aluminium alloy
b.
4. The properties of Inconel most closely resemble which one of the following
steels?
A) High carbon steel.
B) Stainless steel.
C) Mild steel.
b.
5. Which test determine of a ferrous and stainless-steel metal? / Identify ferrous
metals
a. Sparking test
b. Caustic Soda
c. Ring & Tap test
a.
10. Which test is for testing of the hardness strength of a ferrous metal and area of
something?
a. Brinell
b. Rockwell
c. Izod
a.
6. Which of the following hardness test is using the load applied and divided by the
area of impregnation on
the material under testing?
a. Brinell
b. Rockwell
c. Scleroscope
a.
7. An apparatus with a pendulum that strikes on a notched material is to test
a. Hardness
b. Impact test
c. Tension
b.
8. An apparatus that uses a diameter cone or a hardened steel ball to penetrate a test
material is:
a. Hardness
b. Impact strength
b.
9. What type of test involves using a weighted pendulum to strike a material until
fracture?
a. Hardness Test.
b. Impact Resistance Test
c. Fatigue Testing
b.
10. When a piece of sheet metal is pulled at each end, the resultant force is:
a) shear
b) elasticity
c) tension
c.
11. Which alloy can be use on a turbine blade disc on a gas turbine
a) Aluminium alloy (9 chose this)
b) nickel alloy (9 chose this)
c) titanium alloy
b.
12. What is the material used for turbine blade discs in a gas turbine engine?
A: Nickel-based alloy
B: Titanium alloy
C: Stainless Steel
a.
13. The turbine disc in a gas turbine engine is most likely to be made from:
A) A titanium alloy.
B) Stainless steel.
C) A nickel-based alloy.
c.
14. In construction of engine turbine disc, the material used is?
a. Inconel
b. Stainless steel
c. Titanium
a.
15. Carburetor idle, Which strength associated with this?
a. tensile strength
b. shear strength
c. compressive strength
c.
16. To control the idling speed of a carburetor, what type of spring is used?
a. tension spring
b. compression spring
c. leaf spring / torsion spring
b.
17. What is carburetor spring?
a) Torsion
b) Tension
c) Compression
c.
18. What is the formula for tensile strength?
a. force divided by cross-sectional area till the material breaks
b. force multiply cross-sectional area
c. force divided by cross-sectional area by bending it to 45 degree
a.
19. Tensile strength of a material is determined by
a. Dividing the force to pull apart the material until it fractured by its cross-
sectional area
b. Multiply the force to pull apart the material until it fractured by its cross-
sectional area
c. Divided the force to pull the material by its cross-sectional area by bending it to
45 degree
a.
20. What is the carbon content of high carbon steel?
a) 1%
b) 4%
c) 10%
a.
21. The content of carbon in high carbon steel may be up to:
a) 4%
b) 1%
c)10%
b.
22. The hardness of a material is tested by its resistance to
a. Stretching
b. Fracture
c. Penetration
c.
23. Hardness test usually measured by,
a. penetration
b. spark test
c. fracture
a.
24. Almost all hardness test equipment base on
a. Resistance to penetration as a measure of hardness
b. Resistance to bending as a measure of hardness
c. Spark test to determine hardness
a.
25. 18-8 stainless steel contains:
A) 18 % carbon and 8 % chromium.
B) 18 % titanium and 8 % vanadium.
C) 18 % chromium and 8 % nickel.
c.
26. The corrosion resistant steel most commonly used in aircraft construction is 18-
8 stainless steel because it contains:
a. 18% iron & 8% carbon
b. 18% chromium & 8% nickel
c. 18% nickel & 8% chromium
b.
27. The annealing process is used to:
A) Reduce internal stresses in the metal.
B) Increase hardness of the material.
C) Remove carbon from the steel.
a.
28. Which one of the following steel alloys has the best high temperature
characteristics / resistant:
A) Inconel.
B) Stainless steel.
C) Carbon steel.
a.
29. When heat treating an alloy steel:
A) Tempering is normally carried after hardening.
B) Nitriding is normally carried out after tempering.
C) Normalising is carried out before hardening.
a.
30. Heat treatment process for ferrous metal:
a) Tempering after hardening
b) Normalizing before hardening
c) Nitriding before hardening
a.
31. Tension test.... Load/Area
32. What test is being done when the indentation mark by a steel ball or diamond
on a material is measured?
a. hardness test
b. impact test
c. tensile test
a.
33. Diamond core pressed on the material, with penetration
a. Tensile strength
b. Hardness
b.
34. Which instrument measures the diameter of the indentation upon the load
applied?
a. Brinell
b. Rockwell
c. Shore…
a.
35. Which instrument measures the area of the indentation upon the load applied?
a. Brinell
b. Rockwell
c. Shore Durometer / Izod (notch on specimen)
a.
36. The principal alloy of stainless steel is:
a. Chromium
b. Vanadium
c. Molybdenum
a.
37. Fatigue strength of a metal is determined by
a. Apply an alternating force to a material and determine the number of cycles
require to produce failure
b. Applying tension load
c. Compressing the material until it fails
a.
38. Fatigue strength is
A) Alternating force
B) Resistance to pull
C) Resistance to penetration
a.
39. Ability of a metal to conduct heat?
a) Thermal Conductivity
b) Heat Exchange
c) Temperature Potential Difference
a.
40. Define toughness
a) Ability to absorb the energy before it fractures
b) Ability to resist cutting and abrasion
c) Ability to resist deformation
a.
41. What is toughness?
a) The ability to resist impact.
42. toughness means
A. bend without rapture
B. return to its original shape
C. resist penetration/permanent distortion
c.
43. What happens to a sheet of metal when molybdenum is added?
a) Reduces its grain size and increases its impact strength
b) It becomes soft
c) It will catch fire easily
a.
44. _________ reduces the grain size of steel & increases its impact strength,
elevated temperature strength, creep & fatigue resistance and elastic limit.
a) Molybdenum
b) Chromium
a.
45. The process of heating a metal above its critical temperature and then allowed
to cool normally is known as;
a) Normalizing
b) Annealing
c) Tempering
a.
46. A _____ is a process that a material heated to its critical temperature and
cooled at still air.
a) annealing
b) normalizing
c) tempering
b.
47. In ______ process of heat treatment, metal heat to above critical temp and
cooled in still air.
A. Annealing
B. Normalizing
C. Tempering
b.
48. Change iron into alloy, ____ added in
a) Sulphur
b) Phosphorous
c) Carbon
c.
49. Difference in ductility and malleability is that ductility in ability of material to
form under tensile load whereas
A. Malleability is under compressive load (Hammering Action)
B. Malleability under shear load
C. Malleability is measurement of material the extent to which it will regain to its
shape
a.
50. To connect original steel to stainless steel, ______ added.
A. Nickel and chromium
B. Chromium only
C. Manganese
a.
51. Hardness is the ability of a metal to resist cutting, penetration, or abrasion.
52. Inconel is an alloy of Nickel and Chromium and is used in turbine engines
because of strength and corrosion resistance.
53. Fatigue testing: number of cycles.
54. Impact test uses pendulum.
55. SAE System refers to:
a) aluminium
b) steel
c) composite
b.
56. SAE System classifies
a) Ferrous metal
b) Composite
c) Aluminium
a.
57. Which of the following alloying elements which are added to iron to form
stainless steel?
a) nickel
b) chromium
c) nickel and chromium
c.
58. What is the difference number of contents between cast iron and steel?
a) Nickel
b) Carbon
c) Molybdenum
b.
59. Where is Inconel used on the aircraft?
a) Fuselage
b) Wings
c) Engine
c.
60. What is the purpose of a cyclic test being carried out on a material?
a) To check the strength of a material.
b) To check the hardness of a material.
c) To check the fatigue limit of a material.
c.
61. IN THE ______ PROCESS, THE METAL IS PRODUCE WITH A HARD,
WEAR RESISTANT SURFACE OVER A STRONG TOUGH CORE:
A) ANNEALING.
B) CASE HARDENING.
C)COLD WORKING.
b.
62. 18-8 STEEL CONTAINED:
A)18% CARBON AND 8% STEEL.
B)18% IRON AND 8% STEEL.
C)18% CHROMIUM AND 8% NICKEL.
c.
63. THE ANNEALING PROCESS IS USED:
A) TO REDUCE INTERNAL STRESS OF THE MATERIAL.
B) TO INCREASE HARDNESS OF THE MATERIAL.
C)TO REMOVE CARBON FROM THE STEEL.
a.
64. Cold working result
a) Hardness only
b) Increase of hardness & tensile strength
c) Decease of ductility & flexibility
a.
65. As more carbon is added, what happens to the metal?
a) Brittleness decrease
b) Ductility decrease
b.
66. What is relationship between tempering and hardening?
a) tempering reduces effects of hardening and is carried out at a higher temperature
b)
c) tempering reduces effects of hardening and is carried out at a lower temperature.
c.
67. Relationship between tempering and hardening:
a) Heat to lower temperature
b) Heat to higher temperature
c) Does not have any effect
a.
68. SAE 41xxx, 41 stands for
A: Amount of carbon content
B: Type of steel
C: Cabin crew
b.
69. What is shear strength?
A: Ability to resist opposing forces
B: Ability to resist sliding forces
C: Ability to resist cyclic loads
b.
70. When nickel is added to an alloy
A: Its ductility and tensile strength increases
B: Its hardness and tensile strength increases
C: Its toughness and hardness increases
b.
71. When nickel is added to steel to improve?
a. Tensile strength & hardness
b. Tensile strength & ductility
c. …. & corrosion resistance
a.
72. Vickers, Brinell etc. are for testing
a) tensile strength
b) hardness
c) toughness
b.
73. What is the heat treatment of steel
a. Steel is tempered after it has been hardened
74. What is the purpose metal to be heated and cooling
a. For desired characteristics
b. To prevent corrosion
a.
75. After the first heat treatment, how to
a. Annealing
b. Tempering
c. Normalising
b.
76. When heat-treating steel:
a) Tempering to reduce brittleness
b) Annealing to increase grain coarseness
c) Normalizing to increase hardness
a.
77. Hard steel are generally
a) Harder to magnetized and harder to demagnetized than soft steel
b) Harder to magnetized and easier to demagnetized than soft steel
c) Easier to magnetized and easier to demagnetized than soft steel
a.
78. When opposing force acted but not align in same axis?
a) Tension
b) Compression
c) Shear
c.
79. To improve tensile strength add
a. Nickel
b. Chromium
c. Silicon
a.
80. Which of the following is a ferrous metal?
a. Magnesium
b. Titanium
c. Carbon steel
c.
81. Inconel...
a. Nimonic alloy
b. Nickel chromium alloy
c. Steel alloy
b.
82. To increase the hardness of an already heat-treated hardened metal, what
process must be done?
a. Tempering
b. Annealing
c. Normalising
a.
83. Stainless steel contains: -
a. 18 % carbon and 8 % chromium
b. 18 % titanium and 8 % vanadium
c. 18 % chromium and 8 % nickel
c.
84. Which of the following process is used to increase toughness of material?
a. Annealing
b. Tempering
c. Normalizing
b.
85. which one of the following processes is to relieve internal stress
a. Annealing
b. Casting
c. Normalizing
a.
86. What type of a test involves stretching material until it breaks?
a. Fatigue Testing.
b. Hardness Testing.
c. Tensile Testing.
c.
87. Heat treatment of a metal is for?
a. To acquire the required characteristic
b. To make metal softer
c. To prevent corrosion
a.
88. carbon content in medium carbon steel
A. iron and carbon
B. iron and chromium
C. iron and heat treatment
a.
89. process of heat treatment
A. heating, soaking, quenching
B. soaking, heating, quenching
C. heating, quenching, soaking
a.
90. a piece of metal is tested by Vicker hardness test as indicated by
A. triangle or circular indention
B. square base pyramid indention
C. small or big concave indention
b.
91. In hardening process of steel if too rapid cooling is applied to steel part. It will
result
A. quench cracking
B. rapid internal corrosion
C. reduce hardness of steel
a.
92. Steel containing more than 0.85% carbon is called
A. eutectoid steel
B. hypo eutectoid steel
C. hyper eutectoid steel
c.
93. In a brinell hardness testing, hard material will have
A. small impressions and small brinell numbers
B. small impressions and large brinell numbers
C. large impressions and large brinell numbers
b.
94. Tempering of a steel is to
A) refine the grain boundaries and reduce brittleness
B) reduce the brittleness and increase the softness
C) soften the steel
a.
95. Effective method of increasing the hardness of non-heat treatable alloy?
A) Artificial aging
B) Cold working
C) Heat treatment
b.
96. Annealing is a heat treatment process to soften a metal at certain temperature
and
A) hold it at the temperature at certain time
B) quench it quickly
C) ???
a.
97. Normalizing is carried out to
A) Relieve internal stresses cause by forming
B) Acquire maximum tensile strength, minimum ductility and extreme hardness
C) Heat metal to upper critical range, soaked for a time and cooled in the furnace
a.
98. Hard steel is known to be
A) Harder to magnetize and demagnetize than soft steel
B) Harder to magnetize and easier to demagnetize than soft steel
C) Easier to magnetize and demagnetize than soft steel
a.
99. What is the purpose of Normalising?
A) To relieve stress
B) To harden the steel
C) To make the steel have a higher tensile strength
a.
100. What are the factors that will affect heat treatment?
a. Rate of heating and cooling
b. Maximum heating temperature and rate of cooling
c. Maximum heating temperature and rate of heating
b.
101. Vickers, Brinell etc are for testing
a) tensile strength
b) hardness
c) toughness
b.
102. Common heat treatment
a. Temper reduce brittleness
a. Anneal increase grain coarseness
c. Normalize increase hardness
a.
103. In general, for ferrous alloy, as the percentage of carbon increases,
a. Strength, hardness, weldability increases
b. Strength and hardness increase, weldability decreases
c. Strength, hardness and weldability decreases
b.
104. Which heat-treating process allow metal to produce a hard ware-resistant
surface over a soft core?
a. Annealing
b. Tempering
c. Case hardening
c.
105. Why is steel tempered after being hardened?
a. To increase its hardness and ductility
b. To increase its hardness and decrease its internal length
c. To relieve its internal stresses and reduced its brittleness
c.
106. Normalizing is a process of heat treating for
a. Aluminum alloy only
b. Iron base alloy only
c. Both Aluminum and iron-based alloy
b.
107. After heat treatment for steel
a. Annealing to increase grain coarseness
b. Normalising to increase hardness
c. Tempering to reduce brittleness
c.
108. Resist stretching:
a. Tensile strength
b. Ductile strength
c. Compressive strength
a.
109. Hard steels:
a. Easier to magnetise and demagnetise than soft steels
b. More difficult to magnetise and easier to demagnetise than softer steels
c. More difficult to magnetise and demagnetise than softer steels
c.
110. SAE 1030 - what is the percentage of carbon content:
a. 0.3%
b. 3%
c. 30%
a.
111. Inconel is a:
a. steel alloy
b. nickel chromium alloy
c. anomic alloy
a.
112. Heat treatment helps
a. improves corrosion resistance
b. achieves desired properties
c. removes impurities
b.
113. annealing
a. soften
b. harden
c. improve corrosion resistant
a.
114. increase toughness
a. tempering
b. Annealing
c. Normalizing
a.
115. Primary alloy of stainless-steel
a. Chromium
b. Vanadium
a.
116. Inconel shares the same characteristics as- Stainless Steel
117. What to consider for heat treatment
a. Max Temp, rate of cooling
b. Rate of heating and rate of cooling
c. Max Temp and rate of heating
a.
118. An apparatus with a pendulum that strikes on a notched material is to test
A: Hardness
B: Impact test
C: Tension
b.
119. The hardness of a material is tested by its resistance to
A: Stretching
B: Fracture
C: Penetration
c.
120. The annealing process is used to: -
A: Reduce internal stresses in the metal.
B: Increase hardness of the material.
C: Remove carbon from the steel.
a.
121. When heat treating an alloy steel: -
A: Tempering is normally carried after hardening.
B: Nitriding is normally carried out after tempering.
C: Normalising is carried out before hardening.
a.

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