MACHINE DESIGN

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a tool with hardened steel points used for scribing or
laying of distances.

a. Plain scriber
b. Divider
c. A trammel
d. Hermaphrodite
A machine tool used principally to machine flat or
plane surfaces with a single pointed tool.

a. Shaper
b. Planer
c. Drill
d. Power saw
A machine tool in which an abrasive wheel is used as
a cutting tool to obtain a very smooth finish.

a. Broaching machine
b. Planer
c. Tool grinder
d. Milling machine
The process of working metals by the application of
sudden blows or by steady pressure.

a. Casting
b. Turning
c. Forging
d. Rolling
The operation of cooling a heated piece of work
rapidly by dipping it in water, brine or oil.

a. Quenching
b. Annealing
c. Tempering
d. Normalizing
The softening of metal by heat treatment and most
commonly consist of heating the metal up to near
molten state and the cooling it very slowly.

a. Annealing
b. Indexing
c. Knurling
d. Soldering
Fluid film desired between surfaces relative sliding
motion.

a. Lube oil
b. Lubrication
c. Grease
d. Graphite
A kind of gear used to transmit motion from one
shaft to another shaft at an angle to the first.

a. Worm gear
b. Bevel gear
c. Helical gear
d. Spur gear
The principal material used in high production metal
working tools.

a. hyper- eutectoid
b. High speed steel
c. Lead
d. High speed carbon
A heavy rotating body which serves as a reservoir
absorbing and redistributing kinetic energy.

a. Flywheel
b. Governor
c. Shaft
d. Puncher
A machine used in shaping metal by means of an
abrasive wheel or the removal of metals with an
abrasive is called;

a. Planer machine
b. Power saw
c. Shaper machine
d. Grinding machine
Which of the following is not a part of lathe
machine?

a. Tailstock
b. Fan
c. Carriage
d. Headstock
Which of the following is easy to chisel?

a. Cast iron
b. Alloy steel
c. Cast steel
d. Manganese steel
A machining operation whereby the tool reciprocates
and the feed is stationary is called:

a. Shaping
b. Reaming
c. Planning
d. Turning
Which of the following is not a kind of mandrel?

a. Expansion mandrel
b. Taper mandrel
c. Contraction mandrel
d. Foundry mandrel
The area of the machine shop where the metal is
being melted to form a new shape.

a. Welding area
b. Mass production area
c. Foundry area
d. Tool and die area
Which of the following is not used to temper steel?

a. Brine salt bath

b. Oil bath
c. Water bath
d. Steam bath
Which of the following is not a kind of cast iron?

a. Malleable iron
b. Head iron
c. Gray iron
d. White iron
The kind of center which is being attached and
meshed to the tailstock spindle which is also static
while the work is rotating.

a. Dead center
b. Live center
c. Focal center
d. Work center
Which of the following is not part of the headstock?

a. Spindle
b. Anvil
c. Back gear
d. Motor
Which process does not belong to the group?

a. Vise grip
b. Adjustable wrench
c. Torque wrench
d. Feeler gage
Which process does not belong to the group?

a. Resistance welding
b. Soldering
c. Hardening
d. Brazing
Substances having sufficient carbon and/or hydrogen
for chemical oxidation to produce
Exothermally, worthwhile quantities of heat.

a. Lubrication
b. Graphite
c. Grease
d. Fuels
A device that measures atmospheric pressure.

a. Piezometer
b. Hydrometer
c. Barometer
d. Odometer
The mass of the body per unit volume

a. Volume flow rate

b. Density
c. Weight
d. Mass
Subjecting a substance to a high temperature below
the fusion point, usually to make it friable.

a. Calcinations
b. Fusion
c. Boiling
d. Superheating
A special metal formed when two or more metal are
melted together.

a. Monel
b. Alloy
c. Solder
d. Hastalloy
The ability of a moving body to perform work

a. Internal work
b. Potential work
c. Kinetic work
d. Flow work
Hardening the surface of iron- based alloys by
heating them below the melting point in contact
with a carbonaceous substance.

a. Carburizing
b. Normalizing
c. Martempering
d. Hardening
Any material that retard the flow of electricity, used
to prevent or escape of electric current from
conductors.

a. Bricks
b. Insulators
c. Refractories
d. Ceramics
Material usually ceramics, employed where
resistance to very high temperature is required, as
for furnace linings and metal melting pots.

a. Bricks
b. Insulators
c. Refractories
d. Ceramics
A device used to prevent leakage of media.

a. Packing
b. Safety shield
c. Gasket
d. Seals
The internal resistance a material offers to being
deformed and is measured in terms of applied load.

a. Strain
b. Elasticity
c. Stress
d. Resilience
The deformation that results from a stress and is
expressed in terms of the amount of deformation per
inch.

a. Elongation
b. Strain
c. Poisson’s ratio
d. Elasticity
The ability of the material to return to its original
shape after being elongated or distorted when the
forces are released.

a. Elasticity
b. Brittleness
c. Plasticity
d. Creep
The last point at which a material may be stretched
and still return to its undeformed condition upon
released.

a. Rupture limit
b. Elastic limit
c. Proportional limit
d. Ultimate limit
The ratio of stress to strain within the elastic limit.

a. Creep
b. Modulus of rigidity
c. Modulus of elasticity
d. Poisson’s ratio
The ability of a metal to withstand forces that cause
a member to twist.

a. Shear strength
b. Tensile strength
c. Bearing strength
d. Torsional strength
The ability of a material to resist being crushed.

a. Tensile strength
b. Shearing strength
c. Compressive strength
d. Torsion
The ability of metal to stretch, bend, or twist without
breaking or cracking.

a. Elasticity
b. Ductility
c. Brittleness
d. Plasticity
The property of material which resist forces action to
pull the material apart.

a. Shear strength
b. Tensile strength
c. Compressive strength
d. Bearing strength
The property of steel which resist indention or
penetration.

a. Hardness
b. Elasticity
c. Ductility
d. None of these
In the color coding pipe, the color for a pipeline of air
is:

a. Light blue
b. Light orange
c. White
d. Green
In the color coding pipe, the color for a pipeline of
water is:

a. Light blue
b. Green
c. Brown
d. Silver grey
In the color coding pipe, the color for a pipeline of
steam is:

a. Light orange
b. White
c. Silver grey
d. Light blue
The color for a pipeline of electricity in the color
coding of pipeline is:

a. Light orange
b. White
c. Silver grey
d. Light blue
In the color coding pipe, the color for a pipeline of
communication is:

a. Light blue
b. White
c. Brown
d. Light orange
The color for a pipeline of fuel oil in the color coding
of pipeline is:

a. Light blue
b. Brown
c. White
d. Light orange
For high speed application the minimum number
teeth in small sprocket should be:

a. 18 to 24
b. 26 to 30
c. 14 to 18
d. 24 to 28
The good deoxidizer in steel melting is:

a. Manganese
b. Aluminum
c. Silicon
d. All of these
In majority of machine members, the damping
capacity of the material should be:

a. Zero
b. High
c. Low
d. Anything
For moderate speed of mating gears, the ideal ratio
of contact is

a. 1.35- 1.55
b. 1.0- 1.3
c. 1.25-1.45
d. 1.25-4.0
The crest diameter of a screw thread is same as:

a. Pitch diameter
b. Minor diameter
c. Major diameter
d. Base diameter
For a high corrosion resistant stainless steel, what
minimum chromium content is required?

a. 8.0%
b. 4.5%
c. 1.5%
d. 8.5%
At quite low temperatures (say -75°C) the notched
bar impact value of steel.

a. Increases significantly
b. Decreases significantly
c. Remain unchanged
d. Depends on heat treatment
In order to realize the advantage of fluid friction, it is
essential to have:

a. No oil film
b. Converging oil film
c. Diverging oil film
d. Parallel oil film in bearing
Zero axial thrust is experienced in:

a. Herringbone gears
b. Helical gears
c. Bevel gears
d. Worm gears
The maximum size of the fillet weld that can be
made in single pass is:

a. 3mm
b. 6mm
c. 7mm
d. 4mm
Muntz metal contains:

a. copper- aluminum
b. Copper- tin
c. Copper- nickel
d. Copper- zinc
Steel balls for ball bearings are manufactured by:

a. Cold heading
b. Casting
c. Rolling
d. Turning
In general, alloys with high nickel content retain
toughness to quite low temperature up to:

a. -250°F
b. -360°F
c. -320°F
d. -240°F
Manganese steel standard designation is SAE
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a. 8XXX
b. 10XX
c. 12XX
d. 13XX
A babbit is:

a. A cutectic of iron and iron phosphide

b. A gadget for measuring volume
c. A measure of magnetic induction produces in a
material
d. Antimony bearing lead or tin alloy
The minimum thickness of steel members exposed to
weather and accessible for painting is:

a. 4mm
b. 6mm
c. 8mm
d. 10mm
In a standard coarse thread bolt, the stress
concentration is maximum at:

a. All over the surface

b. Top surface
c. Root
d. Flank
Which of the following ropes are more flexible?

a. 6 to 19
b. 6 to 7
c. 8 by 19
d. 6 by 37
Tools usually used in wood pattern making in foundry
shop.

a. Band saw
b. Saws and chisels
c. Knives and drills
d. Grinder
Type of bolt commonly used in the construction that
is threaded in both ends.

a. Hex bolt
b. Stud bolt
c. Square threaded bolts
d. Eye bolt
Cast iron flywheels are commonly designed with
factor of safety of:

a. 9 to 12
b. 8 to 11
c. 10 to 13
d. 7 to 10
Which of the following type of chain is used in
motorcycle?

a. Silent
b. Pintle
c. Bush roller
d. Long
Spiral gears are suitable for transmitting:

a. Any power
b. Small power
c. Huge power
d. Pulsating power
The type of cam used for low and moderate speed
engines is generally:

a. Flat
b. Involute
c. Tangent
d. harmonic
Gears for wrist watch are generally manufactured by:

a. Molding
b. Stamping
c. Galvanizing
d. Honing
The rated life of a bearing changes:

a. Inversely as cube of load

b. Directly as load
c. Inversely as square of load
d. Inversely as load
The best material for brake drum is:

a. Cast iron
b. Steel
c. Aluminum
d. Wrought iron
An elastic body whose primary function is to deflect
under load.

a. Spring
b. Brake
c. Stopper
d. Clutch
Belt slip may take place because of :

a. Loose load
b. Heavy belt
c. Driving pulley too small
d. All of the above
Rankine formula is valid up to slenderness ratio of :

a. 60
b. 80
c. 120
d. 150
In flange coupling the weakest element should be :

a. Flange
b. Key
c. Bolts
d. Shaft
A flange coupling is:

a. Used for collinear shaft

b. Used for non- collinear shaft
c. Rigid coupling
d. Flexible
Universal coupling is :

a. Used for collinear shafts

b. Used for non- collinear shafts
c. Type of flange coupling
d. Rigid coupling
In powder metallurgy the process of heating the cold
pressed metal powder is called:

a. Deposition
b. Granulation
c. Sintering
d. Precipitation
Which one is different from the remaining?

a. Nitriding
b. Cyaniding
c. Electroplating
d. Flame hardening
Splines are used when:

a. The power transmitted is low

b. The power to be transmitted is high
c. Axial relative motion between shafts and hub is
necessary
d. Flame hardening
Delta iron occurs at temperature of:

a. Room temperature
b. Above melting point
c. Between 1400°C & 1539°C
d. Between 1000°C & 1400°C
The most important element that controls the
physical properties of steel is:

a. Carbon
b. Silicon
c. Manganese
d. Tungsten
The process commonly used for the thermo-plastic
material is:

a. Diecasting
b. Injection moulding
c. Shell moulding
d. Cold forming
Select the one that has highest specific gravity?

a. Aluminum
b. Lead
c. Brass
d. High carbon steel
Age- hardening is related with :

a. Cast iron
b. Stainless steel
c. Duralumin
d. German silver
Foundry crucible is made of:

a. German silver
b. Lead
c. Mild steel
d. Graphite
Trimming is a process associated with:

a. Forging
b. Machining of metals
c. Electroplating
d. Press work
A plug gage is used to measure:

a. Taper bores
b. Cylindrical bores
c. Spherical bores
d. Screw threads
In arc welding operations the current value is
decided by:

a. Length of welded portion

b. Voltage across the arc
c. Size of the electrode
d. Thickness of plate
The phenomenon of weld decay takes place in:

a. Cast iron
b. Brass
c. Bronze
d. Stainless steel
Choose the one that will have highest cutting edge
speed.

a. Aluminum
b. Brass
c. Bronze
d. Cast iron
Projection welding is:

a. Continuous spot welding process

b. Used to make mesh
c. Multi- spot welding process
d. Used to form
Least shrinkage allowance is provided in the case of
which of the following:

a. Cast iron
b. Aluminum
c. White cast iron
d. Brass
Dilatometer is used to find out which property o
molding sand:

a. Permeability
b. Hot strength
c. Fineness
d. Moisture content
Hastalloy contains:

a. Copper
b. Nickel and copper
c. Copper and aluminum
d. Nickel and molybdenum
The maximum hardenability of any steel depends on:

a. The carbon content

b. The chemical composition
c. The grain size
d. The alloying elements present