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One mark questions

1. In a rolling process, the state of stress of the material undergoing deformation is

(A) pure compression (B) pure shear
(C) compression and shear (D) tension and shear

2. A metric thread of pitch 2 mm and thread angle 60 is inspected for its pitch diameter using 3-wire
method. The diameter of the best size wire in mm is
(A) 0.866 (B) 1.000 (C) 1.154 (D) 2.000

3. Customers arrive at a ticket counter at a rate of 50 per hr and tickets are issued in the order of their
arrival. The average time taken for issuing a ticket is 1 min. Assuming that customer arrivals form a
Poisson process and service times are exponentially distributed, the average waiting time in queue
in min is
(A) 3 (B) 4 (C) 5 (D) 6

4. A steel bar 200 mm in diameter is turned at a feed of 0.25 mm/rev with a depth of cut of 4 mm. The
rotational speed of the workpiece is 160 rpm. The material removal rate in mm3/s is
(A) 160 (B) 167.6 (C) 1600 (D) 1675.5

5. A cube shaped casting solidifies in 5 min. The solidification time in min for a cube of the same
material, which is 8 times heavier than the original casting, will be
(A) 10 (B) 20 (C) 24 (D) 40

6. For a ductile material, toughness is a measure of

(A) resistance to scratching (B) ability to absorb energy up to fracture
(C) ability to absorb energy till elastic limit (D) resistance to indentation

7. Friction at the tool-chip interface can be reduced by

(A) decreasing the rake angle (B) increasing the depth of cut
(C) decreasing the cutting speed (D) increasing the cutting speed

8. Two streams of liquid metal, which are not hot enough to fuse properly, result
into a casting defect known as
(A) cold shut (B) swell (C) sand wash (D) scab

9. Which of the following is the correct data structure for solid models?
(A) solid part-> faces -> edges -> vertices
(B) solid part-> edges ->faces -> vertices
(C) vertices -> edges-> faces -> solid parts
(D) vertices -> faces -> edges -> solid parts

10. Minimum shear strain in orthogonal turning with a cutting tool of zero rake angle is
(A) 0.0 (B) 0.5 (C) 1.0 (D) 2.0

11. The maximum possible draft in cold rolling of sheet increases with the
(A) increase in coefficient of friction
(B) decrease in coefficient of friction
(C) decrease in roll radius
(D) increase in roll velocity

12. The operation in which oil is permeated into the pores of a powder metallurgy product is known as
(A) mixing
(B) sintering
(C) impregnation
(D) infiltration
13. A hole is dimension
assembly has
(A) loose running fit
(B) close running fit
(C) transition fit
(D) interference fit

mm. The corresponding shaft is of dimension

mm. The resulting

14. Green sand mould indicates that

(A) polymeric mould has been cured
(B) mould has been totally dried
(C) mould is green in colour
(D) mould contains moisture
15. Which one among the following welding processes uses non-consumable electrode?
(A) Gas metal arc welding
(B) Submerged arc welding
(C) Gas tungsten arc welding
(D) Flux coated arc welding
16. A single-point cutting tool with 12 rake angle is used to machine a steel work-piece. The depth of
cut, i.e. uncut thickness is 0.81 mm. The chip thickness under orthogonal machining condition is 1.8mm.
The shear angle is approximately
(A) 22
(B) 26
(C) 56
(D) 76
17. In a gating
(A)
(B)
(C)
(D)

system, the ratio 1:2:4 represents

sprue base area: runner area: ingate area
pouring basin area: ingate area: runner area
sprue base area: ingate area: casting area
runner area: ingate area: casting area

18. A shaft has a dimension,

(A)
0.025, 0.008
(C)
0.009, 0.008

. The respective values of fundamental deviation and tolerance are

(B)
0.025, 0.016
(D)
0.009, 0.016

19. In a CNC program block, N002 G02 G91 X40 Z40, G02 AND G91 refer to
(A)
circular interpolation in counterclockwise direction and incremental dimension
(B)
circular interpolation in counterclockwise direction and absolute dimension
(C)
circular interpolation in clockwise direction and incremental dimension
(D)
circular interpolation in clockwise direction and absolute dimension

20. The demand and forecast for February are 12000 and 10275, respectively. Using single exponential
smoothening method (smoothening coefficient = 0.25), forecast for the month of March is
(A)
431
(B)
9587
(C)
10706
(D)
11000
21. Vehicle manufacturing assembly line is an example of
(A)
product layout
(B)
(C)
manual layout
(D)

process layout
fixed layout

22. Simplex method of solving linear programming problem uses

(A)
all the points in the feasible region
(B)
only the corner points of the feasible region
(C)
intermediate points within the infeasible region
(D)
only the interior points in the feasible region.
23. Friction at the tool-chip interface can be reduced by
(A) decreasing the rake angle
(B) increasing the depth of cut
(C) decreasing the cutting speed
(D) increasing the cutting speed
24. Two streams of liquid metal, which are not hot enough to fuse properly, result into a casting defect
known as
(A) cold shut
(B) swell
(C) sand wash
(D) scab
25. The expected time (te) of a PERT activity in terms of optimistic time (t0), pessimistic time (tp) and
most likely time (tl) is given by
(A)
(C)
(C)
(D)
26. An expendable pattern is used in
(A)
slush casting
(C)
centrifugal casting

(B)
(D)

squeeze casting
investment casting

27. The main purpose of spheroidising treatment is to improve

(A)
hardenability of low carbon steels
(B)
(C)
hardenability of high carbon steels
(D)

machinability of low carbon steels

machinability of high carbon steels

28. NC contouring is an example of

(A)
continuous path positioning
(C)
absolute positioning

point-to-point positioning
incremental positioning

(B)
(D)

29. A ring gage is used to measure

(A)
outside diameter but not roundness
(C)
both outside diameter and roundness

(B)
(D)

roundness but not outside diameter

only external threads

30. The number of customers arriving at a railway reservation counter is Poisson distributed with an
arrival rate of eight customers per hour. The reservation clerk at this counter takes six minutes per
customer on an average with an exponentially distributed service time. The average number of
the customers in
the queue will be
(A)
3
(B)
3.2
(C)
4
(D)
4.2