This document contains question banks for 5 units of the Engineering Materials and Metallurgy course at Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College. The units cover topics like constitution of alloys and phase diagrams, heat treatment, mechanical properties and testing, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and non-metallic materials. Each unit has multiple choice questions worth 2 marks and longer answer questions worth 16 marks. The document provides questions to assess students' understanding of key concepts and ability to explain topics in metallurgy and materials science.
This document contains question banks for 5 units of the Engineering Materials and Metallurgy course at Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College. The units cover topics like constitution of alloys and phase diagrams, heat treatment, mechanical properties and testing, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and non-metallic materials. Each unit has multiple choice questions worth 2 marks and longer answer questions worth 16 marks. The document provides questions to assess students' understanding of key concepts and ability to explain topics in metallurgy and materials science.
This document contains question banks for 5 units of the Engineering Materials and Metallurgy course at Dhanalakshmi Srinivasan Engineering College. The units cover topics like constitution of alloys and phase diagrams, heat treatment, mechanical properties and testing, ferrous and non-ferrous metals, and non-metallic materials. Each unit has multiple choice questions worth 2 marks and longer answer questions worth 16 marks. The document provides questions to assess students' understanding of key concepts and ability to explain topics in metallurgy and materials science.
ENGINEERING MATERIALS AND METALLURGY QUESTION BANK
UNIT-1 (CONSTITUTION OF ALLOYS AND PHASE DIAGRAMS) PART-A (2 Marks)
1. Define solid solution. 2. Name the types of solid solution. 3. State the factors governing substitution solubility. 4. Name the classification of intermediate phase. 5. Explain Gibbs phase rule 6. Draw and explain unary phase diagram 7. Draw and explain classification of binary phase diagram 8. State the application of phase diagram 9. Draw various points in Iron Carbide equilibrium diagram 10. State phases in iron-carbide diagram
PART-B (16Marks)
1. Explain various points in iron carbide equilibrium diagram 2. State and explain phases in iron-carbide diagram 3. Name and explain the constitutes in steels 4. Draw the microstructure of plain carbon steel 5. Draw the microstructure of plain carbon steel 6. Draw the microstructure of gray cast iron
UNIT-II (HEAT TREATMENT) PART-A (2 Marks)
1. Define heat treatment 2. State the objectives of heat treatment 3. Explain heat treatment process 4. Define critical cooling rate 5. Define hardenability 6. What you meant by tempering 7. What you mean by normalizing? 8. What is age and air hardening 9. What are the stages of tempering process 10. What is back carburizing process
PART-B (16Marks)
1. Explain full annealing process 2. Explain stress relief annealing process 3. Differentiate between annealing and normalizing 4. Explain the procedure of performing hardening 5. Explain age and air hardening 6. Explain the stages of tempering process 7. Explain back carburizing process 8. Explain flam hardening with neat diagram 9. Explain induction hardening with neat diagram 10. Draw and explain salient points of isothermal transformation diagram 11. Draw and explain various points in TTT diagram
UNIT-III (MECHANICAL PROPERITES AND TESTING) PART-A (2 Marks)
1. What are the types of mechanical properties? 2. Define the term elasticity 3. Define a) Hardness b) Plasticity c) Ductility 4. Define a) Brittleness b) Toughness c) Stiffness 5. Differentiate between toughness and resilience 6. Define the term creep 7. What is the importance of creep? 8. What are some important types of strength? 9. Define the terms a) Elastic strength, b) Plastic strength 10. Define tensile strength and compressive strength 11. Define the terms shear strength, torsional strength 12. What are types of technological properties? 13. Differentiate between malleability and machinablity. 14. Differentiate between weldablity and castablity. 15. What are the common metals have malleability? 16. What are the factors affecting machinability? 17. What are the some common metals have weldablity? 18. What are the various factors affecting formability? 19. Define the term castablity. 20. What are the factors affecting mechanical properties of a metal? 21. What is meant by plastic deformation 22. Define the term slip 23. Describe mechanism of slip 24. Define twinning 25. What are types of twinning? 26. Describe mechanism of twinning? 27. Differentiate between slip and twinning 28. Write down the classification of imperfections 29. Define point defects 30. Define vacancies. 31. What is meant by Frenkel defect? 32. What is meant by Schottky defect? 33. Define electronic defects 34. Define the term line defects 35. What the types of dislocation and explain briefly? 36. Distinguish between edge dislocation and screw dislocation 37. Define the term plane defects 38. What are types of stacking fault? 39. Define the term tilt boundary 40. Define volume defects 41. What is meant by fracture? 42. What are the types of fracture? 43. What are the two main reasons for ductile fracture is preferred over brittle fracture? 44. Define cup and cone fracture. 45. Differentiate between ductile and brittle fracture 46. Define the term fatigue 47. What are the stress cycles for fatigue testing? 48. What factors affect the fatigue failure of a structural part? 49. What is the use of SN curve? 50. What are the factors affecting fatigue life? 51. What are the factors affecting creep? 52. In what important ways does the Rockwell hardness test differ from Brinell test? 53. Define hardness test. 54. Name any three important mechanical tests which will give valuable information about metals and alloys
PART-B ( 16 Marks)
1. Explain with neat sketch of Rockwell hardness test 2. Explain in details of Knoop micro hardness test. 3. Explain with neat sketch of impact test 4. Explain with neat sketch of grain boundaries 5. Explain with neat sketch of shear test. 6. Explain with neat sketch of screw dislocation 7. Explain crystal defects or crystal imperfections 8. Explain with neat sketch of brittle fracture 9. Explain with simple sketch of shearing fracture 10. Explain with simple sketch of mechanism of creep 11. Explain the term creep fracture 12. Explain with neat sketch of fracture toughness 13. Describe briefly with neat sketch of Griffith theory 14. Describe the equipment necessary for fatigue testing 15. What is creep? Give some examples of equipment in which creep is likely to be encountered. 16. What are types of creep? Explain in detail 17. Describe how tensile test is carried out in the laboratory? 18. Distinguish between Brinell hardness test and Vickers hardness test 19. What are the applications of hardness test? 20. Differentiate between Izod and Charpy test
UNIT-IV (FERROUS AND NON FERROUS METALS) PART-A (2 Marks)
1. How ferrous materials are classified 2. State the manufacturing method of steel 3. What are classifications of steel? 4. Name some ferrous materials 5. Explain big iron production process 6. Wright down the properties of wrought iron 7. Brief about effect of impurities on cast iron 8. Write down the composition of spheroidal cast iron 9. Name some non- ferrous metals 10. Name some magnesium alloys 11. State the properties of Tin
PART-B (16Marks)
1. Explain aluminum manufacturing process 2. Explain monal metal 3. Name some Titanium alloys 4. Explain precipating hardening process 5. State the requirements of bearing 6. Name and explain various bearing materials used production of bearing 7. Explain HSLA steels 8. Explain maraging process
UNIT-V (NON-METALLIC MATERIALS) PART-A (2 Marks)
1. Define the term polymer 2. What are the characteristics of polymer 3. Define the term syndiotatic and atactic polymers 4. Explain elastomer 5. What is meat by polymerization 6. What are some naturally occurring non-metallic materials and have been used for engineering application 7. What is primary of atomic bonding within polymers 8. What is degree of polymerization 9. What does mean why polymers Crystallizes 10. What are some of the ways that a thermoplastic polymer can be made stronger? 11. Why the thermosetting characteristically brittle? 12. What are technique of copolymerization 13. What are the common types of plastics 14. Describe poly ethylene 15. Write down the properties of poly ethylene 16. Write down the application of poly ethylene 17. Polyethylene are dues for house hold goods, why is this so? 18. Describe polystyrene 19. What some properties and application of polystyrene 20. What do the term polyvinyl chloride 21. Why PVC has preferred 22. Write down the properties application of PVC 23. What are the properties of polycarbonate 24. What are application of polycarbonate 25. What is the polyamide 26. What is an acrylonytryl butadiene styrene 27. Why ABS is preferred engineering application 28. What are some limiting properties and application of ABS 29. What is an polyamide 30. Why plenitude is preferred in industrial high performance thermo plastic 31. What are some industrial use of polyamides as laminations 32. What is polyamide- imides 33. What is an poliphenyline oxide 34. What is poliphenyline sulphide 35. What are the purpose of uses in peek 36. What is poltytetra ethylene tefflon 37. What is an urea formaldehyde 38. What is meant by phenyl pharmoldihide 39. What is the common name given for ceramic material in the non-crystalline or amorphous state 40. Why are crystal structure of ceramics frequently more complex than those observed for metals 41. What is the dominant properties of refractory ceramics 42. What are the some important application of ceramics 43. What are some specific materials are classified as structural ceramics 44. What are some common types ceramics 45. What are dominant properties of ceramic abrasives 46. Why do most ceramic materials fails to posses their theoretically high tensile strength 47. What is the cermet and concrete 48. What are two basic classes of ceramic material and does the processing differ 49. What are glass ceramics?
PART-B ( 16 Marks)
1. Differentiate between thermoplastic and thermo- setting plastic 2. Describe and differenciates addition polymerization and condensation polymerization 3. Describe the term polyphylene terophthalate 4. Describe polypropylene and Write the properties application of poly propylene 5. What are some outstanding properties of ceramic materials? 6. Describe the term poletherether ketone 7. What are some special heat treatment operation performed on glass products? 8. Describe about abrasives 9. How might plastic be defined from the view points of chemistry, structure, fabrication and processing?