MACHINE DESIGN

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For shafts, the shear due to bending is a maximum at
the neutral plane where the normal stress is:

a. Minimum
b. Constant
c. Maximum also
d. Zero
The minimum value of numerical combined shock
and fatigue factor to be applied in every case to the
computed bending moment of the shaft is:

a. 2.0
b. 1.75
c. 1.5
d. 1.3
What is the other name given to short shafts on
machine?

a. Spindles
b. Head shafts
c. Core shafts
d. All of these
What is the other name given to a line shaft?

a. Countershaft
b. Main shaft
c. Long shaft
d. Head shaft
The speed at which the center of mass will be equal
the deflecting forces on the shaft; the shaft with its
attached bodies will then vibrate violently, since the
centrifugal force changes its direction as the shaft
turns in:

a. Nominal speed
b. Critical speed
c. Relative speed
d. Mean speed
An old rule of thumb for transmission shafting is that
the deflection should not exceed ____ of length
between supports.

a. 0.01 in. per foot

b. 0.08 in. per foot
c. 0.02 in. per foot
d. 0.05 in. per foot
For transmission shafts the allowable deflections is 1
degree in a length of ____ diameters.

a. 20
b. 25
c. 30
d. 40
What is the limiting torsional deflection for
machinery shafts, if the criteria of limiting torsional
deflection vary from 0.08° per foot of length.

a. 1°
b. 2.5°
c. 2°
d. 3.5°
Bevel gears of sizes 5 in. to 15 in. should not be lift or
depress more than ____, as Gleason statement.

a. 0.004
b. 0.003
c. 0.002
d. 0.001
What is the type of key that allows the hub to move
along the shaft but prevents the rotation of the
shaft?

a. Woodruf key
b. Feather key
c. Gibbs key
d. Square key
What is the other name for kennedy key?

a. Tangential key
b. Woodruff key
c. Saddle key
d. Rollpin
What type of fits used for involute spline?

a. Close fit
b. Press fit
c. Sliding fit
d. All of these
Which of the following is used for permanent fits and
similar to involute splines except that the pressure
angle is 14.5°?

a. Separation load
b. Spline shaft
c. Stub serrations
d. Involute serrations
It is used a coupling, or in addition to another
couplings where, in case of overload, there is danger
of injury to machine or to material in process.

a. Shear pin
b. Flange coupling
c. Involute serrations
d. King pin
What is the maximum shaft angle for a single
Hooke’s coupling?

a. 10°
b. 17°
c. 15°
d. 20°
What are the two principal parts of a Journal
Bearing?

a. Bearing and journal

b. Shaft and babbit
c. Clearance and fitted
d. Shaft and cylinder
When the line of action of the load, bisects the arc of
partial bearing, the bearing is said to be:

a. Eccentrically loaded
b. Fully loaded
c. Centrally loaded
d. Partially loaded
What is the difference of radii of the bearing and
journal?

a. Even clearance
b. Clearance ratio
c. Odd clearance
d. Radial clearance
When radii of both the bearing and the journal are
the same, then the bearing is said to be:

a. Fitted bearing
b. Clearance bearing
c. Full bearing
d. Ambiguous bearing
What is the line that passes through the centers of
the bearing and the journals?

a. Line of action
b. Line of centers
c. Line of symmetry
d. Tangent line
Which of the following is considered advantages for
bearing materials?

a. Conformability
b. Compatibility
c. Embeddability
d. All of these
What is the recommended coefficient of fluctuation
of flywheels for punching, shearing, pressing
machine?

a. 0.005 – 0.1
b. 0.007 – 0.01
c. 0.03 – 0.05
d. 0.01 – 0.03
Which of the following considers the 200 series of
bearing?

a. Heavy
b. Medium
c. Light
d. All of these
Which of the following considers the 300 series of
bearing?

a. Heavy
b. Medium
c. Light
d. All of these
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. Filling ball bearing
c. Self- aligning ball bearing
d. Deep- groove ball bearing
Which of the following is not a type of a ball bearing?

a. Shallow groove ball bearing

b. Filling – slot ball bearing
c. Self- aligning ball bearing
d. Deep – groove ball bearing
What is the usual density of leather belt?

a. 0.035 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
b. 0.0135 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
c. 0.025 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
d. 0.0465 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
Which of the following is the approximate density of
a fat rubber belt?

a. 0.055 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
b. 0.0135 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
c. 0.045 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
d. 0.0465 𝑙𝑏/𝑖𝑛3
A toothed wheel whose tooth elements are straight
and parallel to the shaft axis or used to transmit
motion and power between parallel shafts.

a. Helical gear
b. Spur gear
c. Worm gear
d. Bevel gear
The breaking strength of oak- tanned beltings varies
from 3 to more than:

a. 5 ksi
b. 6 ksi
c. 7 ksi
d. 9 ksi
Experience suggests that the most economical
designs are obtained for a belt speed of:

a. 6000 to 7500 fpm

b. 3000 to 5000 fpm
c. 3500 to 4700 fpm
d. 5000 to 1000 fpm
The tension in the belt due to centrifugal force
increasing rapidly above about:

a. 2500 fpm
b. 3000 fpm
c. 3500 fpm
d. 4000 fpm
What is the usual recommended speed for fabric
belts?

a. 4000 to 5000 fpm

b. 3000 to 4000 fpm
c. 2000 to 3000 fpm
d. 2000 to more fpm
Which of the following is the recommended initial
tension of the belt?

a. 75 lb/in of width
b. 73 lb/in of width
c. 71 lb/in of width
d. 80 lb/in of width
Two shafts at right angles to each other may be
connected by what arrangement?

a. Half turn
b. Quarter turn
c. ¾ turn
d. One turn
What is the minimum number of the teeth on a
smaller sprocket for low speed?

a. 12
b. 21
c. 17
d. 14
What is the minimum number of teeth on a smaller
sprocket for moderate speed?

a. 17
b. 21
c. 12
d. 14
What is the usual minimum number of teeth on a
smaller sprocket for high speed?

a. 21
b. 24
c. 12
d. 14
Which of the following is the measure of torsional
stress?

a. Accuracy
b. Stiffness
c. Rigidity
d. Precision
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. More than
c. Less than
d. Approximately the same
A tolerance where the size of a part is permitted to
be either larger or smaller than thee given
dimension.

a. Bilateral
b. Unilateral
c. Lateral
d. None of these
A fit generally used on those dimensions involved in
a fit, such as pin in a hole.

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

a. Smoothness
b. Waviness
c. Lay
d. Roughness
Which of the following is the surface finish of heavy
cuts or coarse feed?

a. 200 ms
b. 400 ms
c. 80 ms
d. 500 or greater ms
Which of the following is the most dominant cause (
approximately 80% ) of machine failures?

a. Torsion
b. Negligence
c. Fatigue failure
d. Compression
For wrought steel in its commonly met commercial
forms, it is often assumed that the average
endurance limit for an average Su (50% survival) with
the Brinell Hardness is limited to:

a. 500
b. 400
c. 240
d. 450
What is the range of the endurance ratio or Czaud
quotes value for steel?

a. 0.23 to 0.65
b. 0.34 to 0.87
c. 0.63 to 0.93
d. 0.34 to 0.45
Which of the following indicates the degree of
concentration ?

a. Power factor
b. Service factor
c. Stress factor
d. Stress concentration factor
The internal stresses that exist in any part of the
material that is subjected to temperature and not
acted upon by an external load.

a. Residual stress
b. Form stress
c. Superposed stress
d. Control stress
It is the process that cold works a limited amount of
material, thus giving a higher strength, and it leaves a
surface compressive stress.

a. Surface finishing
b. Tensioning
c. Surfacing
d. Surface rolling
Fatigue strength is increased by repeated loads just
below the normal fatigue limit, followed by small
step by step increase of the loading.

a. Coaxing
b. Triaxing
c. Mixing
d. Relieving
It is the diameter of the imaginary cylinder that
bounds the crest of an external thread and the roots
of an internal thread.

a. Mean diameter
b. Root diameter
c. Stress diameter
d. Major diameter
It is the distance in inches a screw thread ( a helix )
advance axially in one turn.

a. Pitch
b. Mean pitch
c. Lead
d. Circular pitch
Which of the following bolts is recommended for a
general use?

a. UNC
b. UNEF
c. UNF
d. NC
Which of the following is frequently used bolt in
automotive and aircraft industries.

a. UNC
b. UNEF
c. UNF
d. NC
Which of the following is a particular bolt used in
aeronautical equipment.

a. UNC
b. UNEF
c. UNF
d. NC
What type of bolt usually used for high- pressure
pipe flanges, cylinder head studs etc.

a. UNC
b. UNF
c. UNEF
d. 8 UN
It is the stress or load induced by the tightening
operation.

a. Initial stress
b. Initial tension
c. Residual stress
d. None of these
For non- metallic gaskets, it has been found that they
should have certain minimum amount of
compression as _____ for a certain cork gasket.

a. 62%
b. 86%
c. 68%
d. 76%
It is a screw fastening with a nut on it.

a. Bolt
b. U – bolt
c. Rivet
d. Screw
A fastening which has no nut and turns in to a
threaded hole?

a. Bolt
b. Fastener
c. Rivet
d. Screw
An old name for an unfinished through bolt comes
with a square.

a. Coupling bolt
b. Stud bolt
c. Machine bolt
d. Automobile bolt
It is a type of coil where the helical coil is wrapped
into a circle forming an annular ring.

a. Volute ring
b. Hair ring
c. Motor ring
d. Garter ring
It is a type of spring where thin flat strip wound up
on itself as a plane spiral, usually anchored at the
inside end.

a. Motor spring
b. Garter spring
c. Volute spring
d. Helical spring
It is the ratio of the length of the column and the
radius of gyration of the cross- sectional area about a
centroid axis.

a. Contact ratio
b. Slenderness ratio
c. Centroidal ratio
d. Column ratio
Under the theories of failure, for static loading of
ductile material, the design stress is:

a. Yield stress / factor of safety

b. Ultimate stress / factor of safety
c. Ultimate stress / proportional limit
d. Yield point / proportional limit
Under theories of failure, the value of shear stress is
how many times that of the tensile stress?

a. Four times
b. Half
c. Double
d. One- fourth
The theory of mechanics of material shows that the
results from the octahedral shear stress theory and
those from the maximum distortion- energy theory
are;

a. The same
b. Less than
c. More than
d. Not related
It is the distance measure axially from a point on one
thread to the corresponding point on an adjacent
thread.

a. Axial pitch
b. Z – pitch
c. Lead
d. Lead angle
It is the angle between a tangent to the pitch helix
and plane normal to the axis of the screw.

a. Helix angle
b. Lead angle
c. Tangent angle
d. Vertical angle
It is suggested that the design factor on the yield
strength be about 1.5 for the smooth load, about 2
to 2.25 for minor shock loading, and up to ___ for
severe shock loads, especially when the loading
reverse during operation.

a. 4.5
b. 3.5
c. 3.0
d. 4.0
A typical hub length fall between___-.

a. 1.25D to 2.5D
b. 1.3D to 3.4D
c. 1.25D to 4.0D
d. D to 7.0D
A key with one several patented methods of keying is
driven or pressed into a hole that is small enough to
close the silt, assembled in radial direction.

a. Fit key
b. Roll pin
c. Saddle key
d. Pin key
A key that allows the hub to move along the shaft
but prevents the rotation of the shaft.

a. Woodruff key
b. Gibs key
c. Feather key
d. Square key
For involute spline, the type of fits used:

a. Close fit
b. Sliding fit
c. Press fit
d. All of these
A coupling that transmit power via the frictional
forces induced by pulling the flange toward each
other over slotted tapered sleeves.

a. Flange coupling
b. Ribbed compression coupling
c. Rigid coupling
d. Flanged compression coupling
A coupling used for absorbing some shock and
vibration that may appear on one shaft and of
preventing the occurrence of reversed stresses
caused by the shaft deflecting at the coupling
preventing at the coupling.

a. Rigid coupling
b. Flange coupling
c. Flexible coupling
d. None of these
It is the difference in the radii of the bearing and the
journal.

a. Even clearance
b. Clearance ratio
c. Fit clearance
d. Radial clearance
A bearing in which the radii of the journal and the
nearing are the same:

a. Fitted nearing
b. Full bearing
c. Partial bearing
d. Clearance bearing
What is the approximate length to diameter ratio of
hydrodynamic bearings?

a. 1
b. 4
c. 3
d. 2
The operating temperature of oil films in the bearing
must approximately:

a. 140 °F to 150 °F
b. 140 °F to 160 °F
c. 120 °F to 190 °F
d. 120 °F to 190 °F
At higher temperatures, oil oxidizes more rapidly
above:

a. 120 °F
b. 200 °F
c. 140 °F
d. 160 °F
For thrust bearing, the speed at moderate operating
condition is:

a. 50 <Vm > 200 fpm

b. 50 <Vm > 250 fpm
c. 50 <Vm > 220 fpm
d. 50 <Vm > 250 fpm
If the ends are joined by wire lacing with machine,
the usual efficiency of joint is:

a. 100%
b. 75%
c. 85%
d. 88%
On high speed centrifugal blowers, it has been
observed that the arc of contact is reduced from
180° at rest to ____ in motion.

a. 100°
b. 90°
c. 950°
d. 110°
The recommended net belt pull for rubber belt is:

a. 11.34 lb/ply per inch of width

b. 13.75 lb/ply per inch of width
c. 16.35 lb/ply per inch of width
d. 20.34 lb/ply per inch of width
For minimum quietness, use sprockets with ___ or
more teeth.

a. 21
b. 23
c. 25
d. 27
If two intersecting shafts are to be belt connected
___ guide pulleys are to be used.

a. 1
b. 2
c. 3
d. 4
Wire ropes are made from cold- drawn with ___ or
more teeth.

a. 21
b. 23
c. 25
d. 27
A wire rope that the wires and strands are twisted in
the opposite direction.

a. Long lay
b. Perform
c. Regular lay
d. Lang lay
A wire rope that the wires and strand are twisted in
the same direction

a. Long lay
b. Perform
c. Regular lay
d. Lang lay
Which of the following ropes is used for haulage,
rigging, guard rails.

a. 6 x 35 IWRC
b. 6 x 15 IWRC
c. 7 x 8 IWRC
d. 7 x 7 IWRC
Which of the following has been considered as
general purpose rope?

a. 6 x 19 IWRC
b. 7 x 25 IWRC
c. 7 x 25 IWRC
d. 6 x 9 IWRC
Which of the following ropes is used for lines,
hawsers, overhead cranes and hoists.

a. 6 x 37 IWRC
b. 6 x 35 IWRC
c. 6 x 25 IWRC
d. 7 x 26 IWRC
The regular materials for wire ropes are made of:

a. Chromium
b. Wrought iron
c. Cast steel
d. High- carbon iron
What is the minimum suggested design factor of wire
ropes for miscellaneous hoisting equipment is:

a. 2
b. 3
c. 5
d. 4
To avoid excessive wear rate the recommended
limiting pressure for 6 x 19 rope is ___ for cast steel.

a. 700 psi
b. 900 psi
c. 1000 psi
d. 1200 psi
To avoid excessive wear rate the recommended
limiting pressure for 6 x 19 rope is ___ for
manganese cast steel.

a. 2500 psi
b. 2000 psi
c. 3000 psi
d. 2300 psi
What friction devices that are used to connect
shafts?

a. Clutches
b. Spring
c. Brakes
d. holders