Machine Designs

Problems/Elements
In the design of mechanical
members, the separation that takes
place along in the direction of the
highest shearing stress is

a. Ductile fracture
b. Fatigue stress
c. Residual stress
d. Torsional stress
It’s a square key with the bottom
two corners are beveled.

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c. Woodruff Key
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Change in metal structure by
which the surface structure
recovers from its unstable
condition

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c. Aging
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It’s the ability of the material to
absorb energy within its
proportional limit.

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b. Resilience
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d. Creep Strength
In kinematics, the occurrence of
linear and rotational motion
simultaneously is known as

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c. Corioli’s
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In kinematics, a single degree of
freedom which permits only
sliding motion is

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b. Screw pair
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d. Cylindrical pair
It’s the ability of the material to
absorb plastic deformation

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b. Stiffness
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d. Machinability
The radial distance between the
bottomland and the pitch circle
is

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b. Dedendum
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d. Working depth
A mechanical element
connected directly to the prime
mover is

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b. Spindle
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d. Transmission shaft
A spur gear with the infinite
radius is also known as

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b. Helical gear
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d. Bevel gear
An engineering material which
contains a mixture of pure iron and
1 to 3% slag is known as

[Link] steel
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c. Wrought iron
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In bolt design, the maximum
load a bolt can withstand is

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b. Resultant load
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d. Proof of load
A fixed shaft with a rotating pulley
is known as

[Link] beam
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c. Line shaft
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The commonly used joint in cast
iron pipe

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b. Compression joint
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d. None of these
Which of the following would most
likely require a steel containing 0.6%
carbon than has been spheroidized,
cold drawn, and slightly tempered?

a. A ball bearing
b. A bridged beam
c. A water pipe
d. A cutting tool
In compression, a prism of brittle
material will break:

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[Link] forming a bulge
c. By shearing along oblique plane
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load
Trimming is a process associated
with

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b. Electroplating
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d. Machine of metals
Select the one that has the
highest specific gravity

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b. High carbon steel
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d. Aluminum
Addition of lead and bismuth to
aluminum results in

a. Improvement of casting
characteristics
b. Improvement of corrosion resistance
c. One of the best known age and
precipitation hardening system
d. Improving machinability
Is used when loads are not to
great

a. Rope
b. Fiber
c. Silk
d. Rubber
Covers general specifications and
dimensions of flat, round hole washers,
intended for used in general purpose
applications.

a. Gasket
b. Groove washer
c. Lock nut
d. Plain washer
The axial distance between
specified reference on the internal
and external taper thread members.

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c. Standoff
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What operation of machining a
smaller diameter on the inside
surface of work piece for a specified
length?

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c. Recessing
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The __________ line describes the
temperature at which solidification
normally begins upon cooling of the
melted alloy.

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c. Eutectic
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A type of spring where thin flat strip
wound up on itself as a plane spiral,
usually anchored at the inside end.

a. Volute spring
b. Motor spring
c. Hair spring
d. Garter spring
The theory of mechanics of materials
shows that the results from the
octahedral shear stress theory and
those from the maximum distortion-
energy theory are

a. Relevant
b. Less than
c. The same
d. More than
A screw that requires positive torque to
lower the load, or to loosen the screw if
it has been turned tight against a
resistance.

a. Power screw
b. Self screw
c. Lock screw
d. Self locking screw
Used for permanent fits, are similar
to involute splines except that the
pressure angle is 14.5°

[Link] load
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c. Spline shaft
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Are used as couplings, or in addition to
another couplings where, in case of
overload, there is danger of injury to
machines or to material process.

a. Involute serrations
b. Shear pin
c. Flange coupling
d. King pin
A coupling that transmits power via the
frictional forces induced by pulling the
flanges toward each other over slotted
tapered sleeves.

a. Flange coupling
b. Ribbed compression spring
c. Rigid coupling
d. Flange compression spring
Tooth breakage on gear is
usually a _____________.

a. A tensile fatigue
b. A contact stress
c. A crack
d. None of these
Pitting is a function of the Hertzian
contact stresses between two cylinders
and is proportional to the square root
of the ______________.

a. Applied load
b. The contact stress
c. The stress
d. Impact
Is the angle through which the gear
turns from the time a given pair of
teeth are in contact at the pitch
point until they pass out the mesh.

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c. Position angle
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Is the angle through which the gear
turns from the time a particular pair of
teeth come into contact until they go
out the contact.

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B. Angle of action
C. Angle of approach
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A type of coupling that allows small
amount of torsion/angular flexibility
due to introduction with some elastic
material cylindrically wrapped around
the bolts in the flange.

a. Simple elastic bonded coupling

b. Elastic material bushed coupling
c. Elastic material bonded coupling
d. All of these
In uniformly loaded beam, the
maximum vertical shearing force
occurs

[Link] the center

[Link] the second section of
maximum moment
c. At the bottom fiber
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The shear at a point on a loaded beam is the

a. Algebraic sum of all the beam’s reaction loads

acting between the investigation point and one of
the ends
b. Sum of all vertical forces acting between the
investigation point and one of the ends
c. Sum of all vertical stresses acting between the
investigation point and one of the ends
d. Sum of the beam’s reaction moments
Which of the following is not a
method by which a single lap rivet
joint usually fails?

[Link] rivets shear

[Link] plate fails in bearing
c. The plate fails in tension
[Link] rivets fails in tension
The bending moment at a section of a beam is
derived from the:

a. Sum of the moments of all external forces on

the side of the section
b. Difference between the moments on one side
of the section and the opposite side
c. Sum of the moments of all external forces on
both sides of the section
d. Sum of the moments of all external forces
between supports
Poisson’s ratio is principally used in

a. The determination of capability of material for

being shaped
b. The determination of capacity of material for
plastic deformation without fracture
c. Stress-strain relationships where stresses are
applied in more than one direction
d. The determination of the modulus of
toughness
When a metal is cold worked all of
the following generally occur
EXCEPT:

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decreases
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c. Grains become equi-axed
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The limiting force acting on two bodies is their
mutual interactions and if both bodies start from
rest, the distance traveled by each

a. Proportional to the masses of the bodies

b. Inversely proportional to the masses of the
bodies
c. Inversely proportional to the square of the
masses of the bodies
d. Directly proportional to the square of the
masses of the bodies
In majority of machine members,
the damping capacity of the
material should be:

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c. High
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Slenderness ration of the column is:

a. Shaft diameter / shaft length

b. Column height / column cross section
c. Column height / least dimension of
column cross section
d. Length of structure/ least radius of
gyration
The rated life of bearing
changes:

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b. Inversely as cube of load
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load
d. Inversely as square of load
In a standard coarse thread bolt,
the stress concentration is
maximum at:

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c. All over the surface
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A tolerance where the size of a part
may be larger only, or smaller only,
than the given dimension

a. Bilateral
b. Unilateral
c. Lateral
d. None of these
Is the relatively finely spaced
irregularities of the surfaces

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b. Lay
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d. Roughness
Is the irregularities or departures from
the nominal surface of a greater
spacing than roughness.

a. Smoothness
b. Lay
c. Waviness
d. Roughness
It has been said that 80% of the
failures of machine parts have
been due to

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c. Torsion
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In a part uniform temperature and
not acted upon by an external load,
any internal stresses that exist are
called

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c. Form stress
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Is a process of prestressing or
overstressing a hollow cylindrical
member beyond the elastic range by
hydraulic pressure

a. Presstage
b. Pitting
c. Autofrettage
d. Stress relieving
A method whereby a gear is run
with another gear that has abrasive
surface material

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c. Lapping
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The ability of a material to
absorb energy within its
proportional limit is known as

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b. Endurance
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d. Spring action
In pure torsion, the maximum
torsional stress is at the center of
the

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c. Medium sides
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When tested in compression, ductile
materials usually exhibit
_____________ characteristics up to
the yield strength as they do when
tested in tension.

a. The same
b. Less than
c. More than
d. Approximately the same
In a pressure vessel, the ratio of
minimum strength of joint to the
strength of solid joint is known as

a. Efficiency
b. Performance factor
c. Joint efficiency
d. Relative strength
A tolerance where the size of a part
is permitted to be either larger or
smaller than the given dimension

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c. Lateral
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When two touching surfaces have high
contact pressure and when these
surfaces have minute relative motion, a
phenomenon called

a. Pitting
b. Receding
c. Damping
d. Fretting
Is the process of cold works where a
limited amount of material, resulted to
a higher strength and it leaves a surface
under compressive stress.

a. Surface finishing
b. Smoothing
c. Surfacing
d. Surface rolling
When a hot part is cooled suddenly by
quenching, there is momentarily a high
temperature gradient that induces a stress
gradient. Some metal parts are under
certain conditions crack as a result of this
phenomenon which is called

a. Thermal-shock failure
b. Thermal fatigue
c. Honing
d. Quenching
Is a low cost spring material, suitable
where service is not a severe and
dimensional precision is not needed.

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c. Stainless steel
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Is a spring with good quality for
impact loads and moderately high
temperatures.

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[Link] spring wire
c. Chromium-silicon
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Is a type of coil where the helical
wrapped into a circle forming an
annular ring

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c. Hair spring
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A rolled steel flat designed as 50 ISF 8
means:

a. The flat is 50mm long and 8 mm thick

b. The flat is 50mm wide and 8 mm thick
c. The flat has cross section of 50 sq. mm.
and width 8 mm.
d. The flat has cross section of 50 sq. mm
and depth 8 mm.
The column splice is used for
increasing:

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b. Cross-sectional area of the
column
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d. All of the above
A shaft rotating in anti-clockwise direction
at low speed inside a bearing will be:

a. At bottom most bearing

b. Towards left side of the bearing metal to
metal contact
c. Towards left side of bearing and making
no metal to metal contact
d. Towards right side of bearing and making
no metal to metal contact
Point of arrest of iron corresponds to:

a. Stages at which allotropic forms change

b. Stages at which further heating does not
increase temperature for sometime
c. Stages at which properties do not change
with increase in temperature
d. There is nothing like points of arrest
A behavior of metals where in strength
of metal is increased and ductility is
decreased on heating at a relatively low
temperature after cold working, is
called:

a. Twinning
b. Solid solution hardening
c. Clustering
d. Strain aging
Machining properties of steel
can be improved by adding:

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b. Vanadium, Aluminum
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d. Chromium, Nickel
Intrinsic silicon becomes intrinsically
conductive, with electrons as majority
carriers, when doped with which of the
following?

a. Aluminum
b. Antimony
c. Boron
d. Germanium
All of the following group of plastic and
thermoplastic, EXCEPT:

a. Polyvinychloride (PVC) and polyvinyl

acetate
b. Acrylic(Lucite) and Polyamide (nylon)
c. Polyethelene, Polypropylene and
polysryrene
d. Phenolics, melanine and epoxy
All of the following statements about rusting of
iron are correct, EXCEPT:

a. Contact with water, and oxygen are necessary

for rusting to occur
b. Contact with a more electropositive metal
reduces rusting
c. Halides aggravate rusting, a process which
involves electromechanical oxidation-reduction
reactions
d. Pitting occurs in oxygen-rich anodic areas and
the rust is deposited nearby
At quite low temperature (say -75°C)
the notched bar impact value of
steel:

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c. Remains unchanged
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carried out
Materials with low values of
thermal expansion are desirable
for

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b. Thermometers
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d. Railroad rails
Individual Rigidity values

a. Have no significance
b. Are significant only for ductile
materials
c. Indicate how much stronger one
member is than another
d. Are significant only for bitter
materials
Alloy steel known for its resistance to
corrosion, abrasion and wear that is usually
ideal for mill grinding of ore in cement and
concentrator application. It is usually
combined with molybdenum to increase the
depth hardening

a. Manganese-chromium steel
b. Chromium-molybdenum steel
c. Chrome-nickel-moly steel
d. Manganese-moly steel
The buckling load of intermediate
columns(to tall to be piers, but to short to
be slender columns) can be determined by

a. The euler load with fixed-end conditions

b. Computing allowable stress from the
ultimate strength
c. Computing allowable stress from the
yield strength
d. The secant formula
Is a form of corrosion that develop
a highly localized areas on a metal
surface:

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c. Galvanic
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The deterioration of organic
coating characterized as
completely:

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c. Checking
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Is used to enable milling machine
to take climb milling cuts:

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b. Spindle
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d. Backlash eliminator
A corrosion occurs within the or
adjacent to a crevice formed by
contact with another piece of the
same or another material:

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c. Galvanic
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A type of roller bearing in which the
balls are assembled by the eccentric
displacement of the inner ring.

a. Shallow-groove ball bearing

b. Self-aligning ball bearing
c. Filling-slot ball bearing
d. Deep-groove ball bearing
The effectiveness of the brake may
greatly decrease shortly after it
begins to act continuously.

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c. Fade
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Occurs when the oil film fails, but in
this case, the load and the speed are so
high that the surface metal is melted
and the metal is smeared down the
profile.

a. Abrasion
b. Corrosion
c. Spalling
d. Scoring
Is a surface fatigue of a greater extent
than pitting, that is the flakes are much
larger. This type of failure occurs in the
surface hardened teeth.

a. Abrasion
b. Corrosion
c. Spalling
d. Scoring
The extra tooth in gear which is
used to distributes the wear more
evenly.

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c. Dummy tooth
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A gear that has an advantage of
smoother tooth engagement,
quietness of operation, greater
strength and higher permission speeds.

a. Zerol bevel gear

b. Straight bevel gear
c. Hypoid bevel gear
d. Spiral bevel gear
Acts not only as stress raisers but
also as stress complicators and
frequently induce a degree of stress
tri-axiality.

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c. Rough surfaces
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Is accomplished by distortion of the
crystalline lattice of the solvent metal by
the solute atoms, with its resulting effect
on the forces required to accomplish slip on
warped or dimpled planes.

a. Deformation hardening
b. Solid alloying
c. Solid solution hardening
d. Precipitation hardening
Casting used in the lost wax process, long
used in dentistry, is applicable to some
alloy for high-temperature use that could
not otherwise be made to the required
dimensional tolerances.

a. Centrifugal casting
b. Stating casing
c. Precision
d. Sand
What’s number 5 in a Mohr’s
scale?

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b. Apatite
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d. Gypsum
Ordinary steels at high temperature,
have only one constituent, which is iron
holding carbon in solid solution.

a. Austenite
b. Ferrite
c. Pearlite
d. Cementite
On slow cooling, the iron carbide
associates itself with a definite amount
of ferrite to form an aggregate called
_______________.

a. Cementite
b. Austenite
c. Ferrite
d. Pearlite
The effect of alloying zinc to copper
is:

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properties
c. To hardness and strength
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Unlike materials or materials of
different thickness can be butt welded
by:

a. Control of pressure and current

b. Adjusting time duration of current
c. Adjust initial gap
d. All of the above
The purpose of inoculation is:

a. To clean the casting

b. To change the chemical composition
of a cast metal
c. To decrease melting temperature of
a cast metal
d. To modify structure and properties
of a cast metal
Spiral bevel and hypoid gears
should, in general, be mounted on
anti-friction bearings in an / a
___________ case.

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c. Soluble tight
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In maximum theories of failure, the
elastic limit of a ductile ferrous material
in shear is practically ___________ its
elastic limit in tension.

a. One-half
b. Three-halves
c. Three-fourths
d. Four-thirds
Is largely used for low strength
applications such as elevator ropes not
used for hoisting and for stationary guy
ropes.

a. Steel rope
b. Cast steel rope
c. Nylon rope
d. Iron wire rope
A 220-mm power screw has a single square
threads with a pitch of 4 mm and is used in
power-operated press. Each screw is subjected
to a load of 5 KN. The coefficient of friction are
0.075 for the threads and 0.095 for the collar
friction. The frictional diameter of the collar is 30
mm. Find the torque to lower the load.

a. 19.1127 kJ
b. 19.1056 kJ
c. 14.0914 kJ
d. 20.5410 kJ
A compression spring has 18 active coils, a
free length of 1 ¼ in., and an outside
diameter of 9/32 in. It is made of No. 15
gauge (0.035-in.) music wire and has a plain
ends. Find the critical frequency.

a. 346.821 cycles/sec
b. 346.321 cycles/sec
c. 144.040 cycles/sec
d. 142.361 cycles/sec
An industrial blower is being driven by a 120 cm cast iron
pulley which is fastened to a 120.6 mm shaft by means
of 30.16 mm square key 177 mm long. What force acting
at a pulley rim will crush the cast iron pulley keyway, if
the strength of cast iron is 1691.3 kg/cm2 tension and
6765.4 kg/cm2 in compression while the shaft and key
are of the same material with permissible crushing
strength of 1887.76 kg/cm2?

a. 18,148 kg
b. 18,143 kg
c. 5,064 kg
d. 5.066 kg
A thin walled cylindrical pressurized ammonia tank
is subjected to an internal pressure which varies
from 815 kPa to 3.55 MPa continuously. The
diameter of a shell is 152.4 cm. Find the required
thickness of the cylinder wall based on yield point
of 480 MPa, net endurance limit of 205 MPa and a
factor of safety of 2.5.

a. 9.78 mm
b. 10.58 mm
c. 9.88 mm
d. 10.68 mm
A band brake is installed on a drum rotating at 250 rpm,
and a diameter of 900 mm. The angle of contact is 1.5 pi
radians and one end to the brake arm 150 mm from the
fixed pin. The coefficient of friction is 0.25 and the
straight break arm is 1000 mm long and is placed
perpendicular to the diameter bisecting the angle of
contact. Determine the minimum force in Newtons
applied at the brake necessary to stop the drum if 50 kW
is being absorbed.

a. 200.00 N
b. 210.00 N
c. 220.00 N
d. 2000.00 N
A pinion gear of hydrated lime roller
crushes runs at 1750 rpm and transmits to
2.5 kW gear. The teeth are cut on the 20°
full depth system and have a module m =
2.5 mm. Determine the radial load to the
gear.

a. 0.106 kN
b. 0.199 kN
c. 0.491 kN
d. 0.546 kN
A treatment of the surface of iron-
based alloys, usually in the form of
sheet strip is

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c. Sanding
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An element assembled into a
tapped hole is

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c. Screw
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After hot working, a stress
caused by reduced hydrogen
solubility is

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b. Galling
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d. Flaking
The procedure of heating t and holding a
metal at a designated temperature for a
period of time and then cooling it at a
controlled rate is

a. Annealing
b. Quenching
c. Tempering
d. Normalizing
The ability of the material to
withstand shock load is known
as:

a) Rupture
b) Stiffness
c)Creep
d) Toughness
In design of the pressure vessel at
atmospheric outside condition, the
occurrence of the maximum hoop stress
is at the

a) Center
b)Outside surface
c) Inside surface
d)Traverse side
The alloy of copper, tin, and
phosphorus is known as

a) Babbit
b) Bronze
c)Brass
d) Lead
The function of trip dogs in
milling machine is for

a) Adjusting movement
b) Centering
c)Clamping
d) Reversing movement
In machinery works, specially in
planning the word platen is
known

a) Flat surface
b) Surface bed
c)Flat bed
d) Worktable
In tool and die manufacturing
usually the cause of burr formation
in blanking process is due to

a)Insufficient tolerance
b) Excessive clearance
c)Dull tool
d) Low speed
The amount of which the width of
a tooth space exceeds the
thickness of engaging tooth is
known as

a)Tooth space
b) Circular pitch
c)Backlash
d) Flank
Which one is the correct statement about true
stress-strain method?

a) There is no such phenomenon like true stress

or true strain
b) True stresses is load per unit area (actual) and
similarly true strain determined under actual
conditions
c) This method can be used for compression test
as well
d) It is more sensitive to change in mechanical
conditions
Coaxing increase the:

a)Strength by reversible cycling

b) Hardness by surface treatment
c)Corrosion resistance by spraying
d) Fatigue resistance by over-
stressing the metal successively
In laminated spring the strips are
provided in different lengths for:

a)Economy
b) Reduction in weight
c)Improved appearance
d) Equal distribution of stress
Select the one for which
diamond riveted joint can be
adopted:

a) Butt joint
b) Lap joint
c)Double riveted lap joints
d) All types of joint
The radial pressure and hoop tension for a thick
cylinder is:

a) Maximum at inner surface and decreases

towards outer surface
b) Maximum at inner surface and increases
towards outer surface
c) Minimum at inner and outer surfaces and
maximum in middle
d) Maximum at inner and outer surfaces and
minimum in middle
In actual machines:

a) Mechanical advantages is unity

b)Mechanical advantages is less than
unity
c) Mechanical advantage is less than
velocity ratio
d)Mechanical advantage is equal to
velocity ratio
Which of the following is used to
clean the gauge blocks before and
after use?

a)Brush
b) Chamois leather or lenen cloth
c)Cotton waste
d) None of the above
One of the causes of grinding
wheel glazing

a) Grain size is to fine

b) Wheel speed is too fast
c)Wheel is hard
d) A and B both
The grade of grinding wheel
depends upon

a) Grain size
b) Kind of abrasive
c) Structure
d) Hardness of bond
Which kind of bond is commonly
used?

a) Vitrified
b) Shellac
c)Rubber
d) None of the above
A grinding wheel which has got
the marking “C” is made with
the abrasive

a) Aluminum oxide
b) Silicon oxide
c)Combination of ‘a ‘ and ‘b ‘
d) Corundum
As per Indian standard, the grain
size of 46 comes under the
group

a) Course grain
b) Fine grain
c)Medium grain
d) Very fine grain
For general work the cutting
angle of a cold flat chisel is
ground at an angle of

a) 80 deg
b) 60 deg
c)70 deg
d) 35 deg
A new hacksaw blade should not
be used in old cut because

a)The blade is very costly

b) The blade have very sharp
teeth
c)The space is not sufficient to play
the new blade in the old cut
d) None of the above
Which of the file is not
hardened?

a) Tang
b) Body
c)Heel
d) Point
In case of a flat scraper, the depth
of cut is verified by

a)Changing the convexity of the

cutting edge
b) Changing its inclination
c)Changing its weight
d) None of the above
Generally spiral fluted
reamer has spirals of

a) Left hand
b) Straight
c) Right hand
d) None of the above
In which screw thread the side =
width of flat = width of space =
0.5p

a)Knuckle
b) Square
c)Buttress
d) Acne
Which gauge is used to check the
internal threads?

a) Plug gauge
b) Thread plug gauge
c)Ring gauge
d) Thread ring gauge
In case of a limit plug gauge
which size will not enter into the
hole

a) ‘go’ size
b) ‘not go’ size
c)‘a’ and ‘b’ both
d) None of the above
Limit gauge is made to the
_______ sizes of the work to be
measured

a) Actual and nominal

b) Nominal and lower limit
c)Nominal and upper limit
d) Minimum and maximum
c
‘GO’ limit is

a) Upper limit of a shaft

b) Lower limit of a hole
c) ‘A’ and ‘B’ both
c

d) Neither ‘A’ nor ‘B’

Lapping is done

a)To finish the job to a fine degree

of a accuracy
b) To get high quality of surface
finish
c)To control the size
d) All the above
In which method a bore is
finished to a very closed
tolerance

a) Lapping
b) Grinding
c)Honing
d) Turning
Jig Bushings are generally
made of

a) Mild steel
b) Tool steel
c) Cast iron
d) Brass
An advance motion along the
longitudinal axis of a twist of drill is
called

a)Speed
b) Cutting speed
c)Feed
d) None of the above
In internal cylindrical grinding
wheel and the work rotate in

a) Same direction
b) Opposite direction
c) Neither ‘a’ nor ‘b’
d) ‘A’ and ‘B’ both
For grinding materials having low
tensile strength which is abrasive is
used

a)Silicon carbide
b) Emery
c)Aluminum oxide
d) Corundum
The size of grinding wheel is
taken from

a) Diameter of a wheel
b) Width of face
c)Bore size
d) All of the above
Which centre is used for supporting
open end of pipe shells etc. while
turning or thread cutting in a lathe?

a)Ball centre
b) Pipe centre
c)Half centre
d) Female centre
When outside diameter of a job is
turned in relation to the internal
hole, the job should be held

a)In three jaw chuck

b) On face plate
c)On lathe mandrel
d) Between centers
The included angle of a dead
centre is

a) 30 deg
b) 60 deg
c) 45 deg
d) 90 deg
Amount of automatic feed in shaper is
increase by taking the crank pin

a) At the centre of crank disc

b)Towards the centre of crank disc
c) Away from the centre of a crank
disc
d)None of the above
In a shaper the feed (metric)
is usually express in

a) Mm/ stroke
b) Meter/minute
c) Mm/ revolution
d) None of the above
For cutting gear teeth in a
shaper, the………. Tool is used

a) Gooseneck
b) Round nose
c)‘V’ shaped
d) Form
Shaper tool bit should not
extend in tool holder beyond

a) 5mm
b) 25 mm
c)15 mm
d) 50 mm
The standard ratio of cutting to
return stroke in shaper is

a) 3:1
b) 2:3
c)1:3
d) 3:2
A tipped tool is more useful than a
H.S.S. tool because

a)It can resist more heat

b) Cutting speed can be increased
c)It can keep the cutting point
sharp
d) All of the above
The feed in a shaper takes place at

a)The beginning of a return stroke

b) The middle of return stroke
c)The beginning of cutting stroke
d) The end of return stroke
If a clearance of cutting edge is 15
deg. The lip (wedge) angle in 75
deg. The rake angle will be

a)80 deg
b) 10 deg
c)70 deg
d) None of the above
The cross feed rod is 5mm pitch and the
graduated collar has 250 graduations. If 15
divisions depth of cut is given, the reduction
in diameter will be

a) 0.2 mm
b) 0.6 mm
c) 0.3 mm
d) 0.4 mm
The approximate hardness of HSS
end mill cutter is

a) 45 HRC
b) 62 HRC
c)52 HRC
d) 72 HRC
The over arm of a milling
machine is used to support

a) Spindle
b) Column
c)Arbor
d) Table
When the feed motion takes
place in a slotting machine

a) During the cutting motion

b) At the end of return stroke
c)After each forward stroke
d) After each double stroke
Which of the following conditions
may cause error during knurling?

a)To much longitudinal feed

b) Surface speed too low
c)Clamped length of tool too short
d) Unnecessary support with tail
stock center
Mark the milling method during which the
formation of the chatter marks is very likely

a) During down cut milling with a straight

tooth cutter
b) During up cut milling with a straight tooth
cutter
c) During face milling with a straight tooth
cutter
d) While using spiral tooth cutter
In a planer the feed is provided

A. At forward stroke
B. In between forward stroke
C. At return stroke
D. In between return stroke
In a planer the cutting speed
depends upon

A. Material of job, material of tool

and feed rate
[Link] of bull gear
[Link] of cut
D. None of the above
If length of planer stroke is 450mm,
number of stroke per minute are
10, then cutting speed will be

A. 3 meter/min
B.7.5 meter/min
C.5 meter/min
D. 10 meter/min
The planer tool differs from lathe
tool because it has

A. Less front and side clearance

[Link] front and side clearance
[Link] rake angle
D. More rake angle
The cutting action in on both
stokes in

A. Open side planer

B. Pit planer
C. Double housing planer
D. Universal planer
The straddle milling is done by
means of two

A. Side milling cutters

[Link] milling cutters
[Link] milling cutters
D. Form cutters
The formula to find out the number
of turn of the crank simple indexing
is

A. T=20/N
B.T=40/N
C.T=N/20
D. T=N/40
One of the great advantages to using
the conjugate beam method to compute
beam deflections is that the method can
handle beams

[Link] varying cross section

B. With varying cross section and
different materials
C. With different materials
[Link] two built ends
The easiest, most straight-forward
method for determining beam
deflection is the

A. Double integration method

[Link] area method
[Link] energy method
D. Table look-up method
The conjugate beam method of
calculating beam deflection allows
deflection to be found by drawing

A. Shear diagrams
[Link] stress diagram
[Link] diagrams
D. Shear and moment diagrams
When an axial stress is applied
eccentrically to a beam, the combined
stress die to compression (tension)
and bending may be found by

[Link] addition
B. Combined stress theory
C. Mohr’s circle
[Link] element analysis
The disadvantage of using a Goodman design
criterion instead of Soderberg design criterion is
that it

A. Applies only for brittle materials

B. Is acceptable for metals only below their
critical temperature
C. Is the more conservative of fluctuating stress
theories
D. Requires the material’s ultimate strength to be
known
The presence of sulphur in pig iron
makes:

A. It is easily machinable
[Link] hard
[Link] the fluidity
D. The casting unsound
Aluminium alloys for pressure die
casting:

[Link] possess considerable fluidity

B. Must have iron as one of the
constituents
C. Must not be free from hot shortness
[Link] be light
The hardness of steel increases if it
contains:

A. Austenite
[Link]
[Link]
D. All of the above
Surface hardening to produce a hard
outer surface with a ductile interior is
desirable for metal (steel) product
subjected to:

[Link] tensile loads

B. Shock
C. Fatigue
[Link] compressive loads
In calculation using standard structural
shapes of I-beams, it is assumed that
the shear stress is carried by the

[Link] cross-sectional area

B. Web only
C. Top flange only when in compression
[Link] only
All of the following are the feasible
methods for calculating truss deflection
of statistically indeterminate trusses
except the

[Link] energy method

B. Virtual work method
C. Unit load method
[Link] look-up method
In a standard dividing head the ratio
between the worm wheel and the
worm is

A. 10:1
B.30:1
C.20:1
D. 40:1
In a standard dividing heads 3
holes in 27 holes circle will index

A. 6 deg
B. 2 deg
C. 4 deg
D. 1 deg
There are two different
movements of the crank in

A. Simple indexing
[Link] indexing
[Link] indexing
D. Angular indexing
In a vertical milling machine the
spindle is situated...............to the
work table

A. Horizontal
[Link]
[Link]
D. None of the above
Planer type built machine is
built up for work of

A. Light duty
B. Medium duty
C. Heavy duty
D. None of the above
In a straddle milling operation
how many cutters are used to
mill the work?

A. One
B. Three or more
C. Two
D. Any of the above
For gear cutting which
cutter is used?

A. End mill cutter

B. Form relieve cutter
C. Plain milling cutter
D. All of the above
In a slotter, the table gets _
different feeds

A. One
B. Three
C. Two
D. None of the above
Mark the cutter which works
simultaneously with up cut and
down cut process

A. Side milling cutter

[Link]-circular milling cutter
[Link] end mill
D. Plain milling cutter
A polygon with 9 flats is to be milled using the
indexing head. The indexing head transmission
ratio is 40:1. Determine the number of crank
rotation and mark the correct answer

A. 9 full rotation
B. 5 full rotation, 2 holes on the 36 hole circle
C. 4 full rotation, 12 holes on the 27 hole circle
D. 2 full rotation, 16 hole on the 47 hole circle
A milling cutter running at 62 rpm has
10 teeth and feed per tooth of 0.09
mm. What is the table feed mm/min.?

A.132 mm/min
B. 0.738 mm/min
C. 48.1 mm/min
D.73.8 mm/min
Where the relieved cutters are
reground?

A. On the circumstances
[Link] the flank
[Link] cutters are not reground
D. On the side faces
What happen if the job is loosely
fitted between centres in cylindrical
grindings?

[Link] job will be out of round

B. The job will be oversize
C. The job will be thrown out
[Link] job will not rotate
Internal and external taper on
cylindrical jobs are ground in,

A. Plain cylindrical grinding

machine
[Link] cylindrical grinding
machine
[Link] grinding machine
D. Centre less grinding machine
Which of the following quick return
mechanism is most widely used in
most of the slotters?

A. Whitworth mechanism
[Link] mechanism
[Link] disc mechanism
D. Slotter link and gear mechanism
In slotter the cutting speed
depends upon

A. Material to be cut
B. Finish required
C. Material of the slotter tool
D. All of the above
If the clearance angle is more than
required on a slotter tool, then
support on the cutting edge will be

A. More
[Link]
[Link]
D. None of the above
Convex shaped slotter tools
are used for machining

A. Flat surface
B. Convex surface
C. Conical surface
D. Concave surface
The clamping block to be used
in a slotter to support the end of
the strap is made of

A. HSS
B. Lead
C. High carbon steel
D. Wood
The table of slotter has feeding
movement

A. Longitudinal
B. Rotary
C. Cross
D. All of the above
Divided table planer has

A. One table
B. Two tables
C. One housing
D. Two housing
A tapered square key is known:`

a) Gib head
b) Woodruff
c)Kennedy
d) Barth
The process of welding two
dissimilar metals is known as:

a) Friction welding
b) Flash welding
c)Oxyacetylene welding
d) Cold welding
The outbreak of fire can
be avoided by preventing

a) Fuel
b) Oxygen
c) Heat
d) Any of the above
The square head f a combination
set is used for making or checking
the angles

a) 90` deg. Only

b) 90 & 45 deg.
c)45 deg. Only
d) Any angle between 0 – 180
deg.
Angle plate is made of

a) Closed grain cast iron

b) Tool steel
c) Cast steel
d) High `speed steel
The eye hole of a hammer head is
made in oval shape and taper towards
center bec.
a) It easy for production
b)It is specially designed by experts
c) It accommodates the handle and a
wedge for preventing it from flying off
d)None of the above
The jaws of a leg vice are
opened

a) Parallel to each other

b) In “V” form
c)In A and B both
d) Neither A nor B
Which one is the correct statement about true
stress – strain method?

a) There is no such phenomenon like true stress

or true strain
b) True stresses is load per unit area (actual) and
similarly true strain determined under actual
conditions`
c) This method can be used for compression test
as well
d) It is more sensitive to change in mechanical
conditions
Coaxing increases the:

a)Strength by reversible cycling

b) Hardness by surface treatment
c)Corrosion resistance by spraying
d) Fatigue resistance by over –
stressing the metal successively
In laminated spring the strips are
provided in different lengths for:

a)Economy
b) Reduction in weight
c)Improved appearance
d) Equal distribution of stress
Select the one for which diamond
riveted joint can be adopted:

a)Butt joint
b) Lap joint
c)Double riveted lap joints
d) All types of joint
The radial pressure and hoop tension for a
thick cylinder is:

a) Maximum at inner surface and decreases

towards outer surface.
b) Maximum at inner surface and increases
towards outer surface.
c) Minimum at inner and outer surfaces and
maximum in middle
d) Maximum at inner and outer surfaces and
minimum in middle
In actual machines:

a) Mechanical advantage is unity

b)Mechanical advantages is less than
unity
c) Mechanical advantage is less than
velocity ratio
d)Mechanical advantage is equal to
velocity ratio
Which of the following is used to
clean the gauge blocks before and
after use?

a)Brush
b) Chamois leather or lenen cloth
c)Cotton waste
d) None of the above
One of the causes of grinding
wheel glazing

a) Grain size is too fine

b) Wheel speed is too fast
c)Wheel is hard
d) A and B both
The grade of grinding wheel depends
upon

a)Grain size
b) Kind of abrasive
c)Structure
d) Hardness of bond
Which kind of bond is commonly
used?

a) Vitrified
`

b) Shellac
c)Rubber
d) None
A grinding wheel which has got
the marking ‘C’ is made with the
abrasive

a)Aluminum oxide
b) Silicon Carbide
c)Combination of A and B
d) Corundum
As per Indian standard, the grain
size 46 comes under the group

a) Coarse grain
b) Fine grain
c)Medium grain
d) Very fine grain
For general work the cutting angle
of a cold flat chisel is ground at an
angle of

a)80 deg
b) 60 deg
c)70 deg
d) 35 deg
A new hacksaw blade should not be
used in old cut because

a) The blade is very costly

b)The blade have very sharp teeth
c) The space is not sufficient to play the
new blade in the old cut
d)None of the above
Which of the file is not
hardened?

a) Tang
b) Body
c)Heel
d) Point
In case of a flat scraper, the depth of
cut is verified by

a) Changing the convexity of the cutting

edge
b)Changing its inclination
c) Changing its weight
d)None of the above
Generally spiral fluted reamer
has spirals of

a) Left hand
b) Straight
c)Right hand
d) None of the above
In which screw thread the side =
width of flat = width of space =
0.5p

a) Knuckle
b) Square
c)Buttress
d) Acme
Which gauge is used to check the
internal threads?

a)Plug gauge
b) Thread plug gauge
c)Ring gauge
d) Thread ring gauge
In case of a limit plug gauge
which size will not enter into
the hole

a) Go size
b) Not go size
c)A and B both
d) None of the above
Limit gauge is made to the _____
sizes of the work to be measured

a)Actual and nominal

b) Nominal and lower limit
c)Nominal and upper limit
d) Minimum and maximum
Go limit is

a)upper limit of a shaft

b) lower limit of ta hole
c)A and B both
d) Neither A and B
The value of one micron is

A. 1.00 mm.
B. 0.01 mm.
C. 0.10 mm.
D. 0.001 mm.
For the accurate measurement of
bores, the best instrument is

A. Vernier caliper
B. Plug gauge
C. Dial test indicator
D. Inside micrometer
Under sine principle the length
of the sine bar takes the place of

A. Opposite side
B. Hypotenuse
C. Adjacent side
D. Height
In a hydraulic driven shaper the
metal is removed at

A. Higher speed
B. Average speed
C. Lower speed
D. None of the above
In a shape the cutting speed
(metric) is

A. meter per minute

B. meter per hour
C. meter per second
D. none of the above
Fixture clamps are generally
made of

A. High carbon steel

B. High speed steel
C. Case hardened mild steel
D. Alloy steel
Successful designing of jigs and
fixtures depend upon

A. Clamping arrangement
B. Manufacturing conditions
C. Tool guiding elements
D. All of the above
When an external gear is meshed
with an internal gear, the gears will
rotate in

A. Same direction
B. Will not rotate
C. Opposite direction
D. None of these
While soldering the flux is used because

A. It assists for quick melting and

increasing the fluidity of solder
B. It saves the part from the oxidation
C. It takes the molten metal on all
surfaces
D. All of the above
A usual ratio of soluble oil and
water used in coolant is

A. 1:10
B. 1:20
C. 10:1
D.20:1
If r.p.m. =200, feed per revolution
= 0.05 mm, then the feed per
minute will be

A. 100 mm
B. 4 mm
C. 10 mm
D. 1 mm
For a given [Link]., If the diameter of a
twist drill increases then the cutting
speed will

A. increase
B. the same
C. decrease
D. none of the above
A stud is which
A stud is which

A. have threads in one end

B. inserted in a plane hole
C. require a nut
D. none of the above
’18-8’ stainless steel means

A. 18% Tungsten and 8%

Chromium
B. 18% Nickel and 8% Chromium
C. 18% Chromium and 8% Nickel
D. 18% Chromium and 8% Cobalt
Which is the lightest metal?

A. Lead
B. Aluminum
C. G.I. Sheet
D. Cast Iron
Hardened steel parts have

A. Fine grains
B. Medium grains
C. Coarse grains
D. None of the above
Concentricity of an outside
diameter can be checked by

A. Vernier caliper
B. Dial test indicator
C. Outside micrometer
D. Tube micrometer
Which micrometer has no
anvil

A. Outside micrometer
B. Screw thread micrometer
C. Depth micrometer
D. Digit micrometer
Which micrometer is available
with extension rods?

A. Outside micrometer
B. Screw thread micrometer
C. Inside micrometer
D. Combi micrometer
As per Indian standard ‘M’ grade
wheel comes under the group

A. Soft
B. Hard
C. Medium
D. None of the above
The symbol conventionally
used for resinoid bond is

A. ‘V’
B. ‘B’
C. ’R’
D. ‘E’
A grinding wheel is marked as
51A, 46L 5V 23, out of these 5
means

A. kind of abrasive
B. Structure
C. kind of bond
D. Grain size
Balancing of grinding wheel is done to

A. make the outside diameter

concentric with the bore.
B. make the sides of wheel parallel.
C. equalize the weight in every portion
of the wheel.
D. None of the above
Grinding fluids are used to

A. reduce the friction between

the wheel face and the job
B. wash away ships
C. prevent loading of the wheel.
D. All of the above
Taps are resharpened by
grindings

A. Flutes
B. Diameter
C. Threads
D. Relief
A test for pipe used for coiling
in sizes 2 inches:

A. flaring
B. crushing
C. flange
D. bend
The size of an equal leg length
fillet weld shall be based on the
length of the largest:

A. isosceles right triangle

B. square
C. right triangle
D. rectangle
A machine used in testing steel
generally strike the specimen with an
energy from 220-265 ft-lb.

A. Izod test
B. Charpy test
C. Rockwell test
D. Test blocks
One important skill that operators of
machine tools must have an
understanding of measurement which
demands :

A. speed
B. neatness
C. precision
D. sociability
Which of the following metal is
easy to chisel?

A. alloy steel
B. manganese steel
C. stainless steel
D. cast iron
During the quenching process in heat
treating steel, agitation of the fluids
used in the quenching has what effect
on the severity of the quenching?

A. increase quenching severity

B. decreases quenching severity
C. has no effect on quenching severity
D. reverses quenching severity