BUET EXAMS

SOLID MECHANICS
1. FD, SFD, BMD. BAPEX16, GTCL, WASA14, PDB
2. Stress strain curve for steel, ceramic and polymer materials. BAPEX16
3. Draw typical stress-strain diagram of mild steel showing yield strength, ultimate strength and
breaking strength. GTCL, PDB
4. Draw a Wheatstone bridge circuit. How It measures the strain? NWPGCL15
5. Three theories of failure of ductile materials and two theories of brittle materials. BAPEX16
Problems
6. A cantilever beam of cross section area 30mm x 40mm to apply load 2000N at free end. The
length of the beam 0.5m. Find the bending stress. DPDC14
7. Given elongation 20mm, original length is 2m, P=20N, E=20MPa, G=50GPa. Find the
minimum cross section area of the bar. DPDC14
8. A steel rod of 1 cm2 in cross sectional area and 100 cm long is subjected to an axial pull of
2000 kgf. Find the elongation of the rod considering E=200GPa. GTCL, PDB
9. A spherical pressure vessel has an internal pressure of 2 MPa. The outer diameter of the
cylinder is 200 mm and the thickness of the cylinder is 200 mm and the thickness of the cylinder
is 10mm. Find the longitudinal stress and hoop stress. PGCB11
10. For a material modulus of elasticity is 200 GPa and Poissons ratio is 0.3. Find the modulus of
rigidity and bulk modulus. NWPGCL15
11. Thin walled cylindrical shape, maximum allowable stress 150 MPa, diameter 50 mm, thickness
0.2mm. Calculate internal pressure? PGCB15
12. Determine the moment of inertia of the given area ABCDE. WASA14
13. Given Poissons ration 0.3 and E= 20010-6 Pa. Calculate bulk modulus and shear modulus of
rigidity. WASA14
14. Given diameter D, thickness t and force P, find shear stress. DPDC14

DRAWING
15. Drawing. BAPEX16, APSCL, DPDC14, GTCL, NWPGCL14, NWPGCL15, PGCB15,
WASA14
THERMODYNAMICS, POWERPLANT ENGINEERING, REFRIGERATIONAIRCONDITIONING AND AUTOMOBILE
16. What is boiler power? Convert 1 bhp of boiler into kg/hr. BAPEX16

17. Boiler mountings and accessories. Name 3 of those. BAPEX16, APSCL, NWPGCL15 (give 2
examples of them)
18. What is the function of economizer in a boiler? PGCB15, GTCL, PDB
19. What is the function of safety valve in a boiler? GTCL, PDB
20. What is the function of baffle in a boiler? PGCB15
21. Fouling Factor, importance of it designing boiler. APSCL
22. Mention 5 names of energy storing technologies. BAPEX16
23. How do you identify a petrol engine and a diesel engine? GTCL, PDB
24. Define TON of refrigeration. APSCL, PGCB15, PDB
25. What is COP of refrigeration? APSCL
26. 1 TON = how many KW? PGCB15
27. T-S diagram of a given reheat Rankine cycle. BAPEX16
28. Draw a steam turbine power plant layout/schematic. NWPGCL15
29. Draw Rankine cycle T-S diagram. (PGCB15, NWPGCL15) and explain every stage or
describe the different processes involved with it. PGCB15
30. Draw a cooling circuit of a car. BAPEX16
31. Schematic diagram of closed cycle gas turbine and corresponding T-S diagram for single stage
intercooling and single stage heating chamber. APSCL
32. Draw a diagram for an open cycle gas turbine of 2 stage reheating and 2 stage intercooling.
NWPGCL15
33. What are the applications of gas turbine? Describe its advantages over other prime movers such
as diesel engine or petrol engine or steam turbine? PGCB15
34. P-V and T-S diagram of Carnot and Stirling cycle. APSCL
35. P-V and T-S diagram for steam turbine. APSCL
36. Draw P-V diagram of Otto and Diesel cycle and show their process in the diagram. DPDC14,
PDB
37. Draw indicator diagram for four stroke SI and CI engine in T-S graph. NWPGCL15
38. Write down the important components of air-conditioning. DPDC14
39. What is air conditioning? PGCB15
40. Difference between air-condition and cooler? PGCB15
41. Draw the block diagram of a vapor compression refrigeration system and corresponding p-h
and T-S diagram. NWPGCL15
42. List the main components of a steam power plant. PDB15
43. Advantages of gas turbine over steam turbine. PDB15
44. Draw schematic diagram of combined cycle power plant. PDB15
45. Draw schematic diagram of combined cycle (Rankine-Brayton) and also show the top most
and bottom of the cycle. PGCB11
46. Draw the T-S Diagram of Vapor-Compression refrigeration cycle. PDB15
47. What is cooling tower? Draw schematic diagram. PGCB11
48. Write the name of chemical reactions used in boiler water treatment. PGCB11
49. What are the subsystems of a petrol engine? Write about 5 of those. PGCB15
50. Describe five sub-process of IC engine. PGCB15
51. Write the chemical sign of Fr134a, Freon 134a. WASA14
52. What is CCPP? What type of cycle is used in CCPP? EGCB VIVA14

53. What is the other name of Joule cycle? EGCB VIVA14

54. Draw P-V diagram of Joule cycle. EGCB VIVA14
55. Why lubricant and lube oil is used? EGCB VIVA14
56. Why lube oil should be changed after certain period of time? EGCB VIVA14
Problems
57. Given work input 24KJ/Kg, COP 2.45, mass flow rate 2 Kg/s, determine cooling capacity per
ton of refrigeration. WASA14
58. An ice plant produces 100 tons of ice in 24 hrs. If the plant uses water at 20, find its cooling
capacity. Specific heat and latent heat of solidification of water are 4.2 KJ/Kg/K and 334 KJ/Kg
respectively. GTCL
59. An air compressor compresses air of 15C and 1 bar. After compression the pressure becomes
7 bar isentropically. Find the final temperature and work done for this process. NWPGCL15
60. A plants capacity is 950MW and produced 567000 KW-hr/month. Peak load is 1000MW.
Find i) load factor, ii) plant capacity factor. APSCL
61. A vapor compression refrigeration cycle has the cooling capacity of 2 tons. Find the compressor
power it the COP is 3.5. BAPEX16
62. Calculate the refrigeration tonnage for 3000kg ice from 0C to 30C. NWPGCL15

ENGINEERING METALLURGY
(NOTHING)

HEAT TRANSFER
63. What is LMTD? Write its equation. BAPEX16.
64. What is the difference between evaporation and boiling? Which one occurs on contact surface?
PGCB15
65. Draw the diagram for counter flow and parallel flow hear exchanger. APSCL.
Problems
66. A=2m2, dx=0.02m, T1=400C, T2= 30C, K=0.07 W/m/C (MAY BE). Find Q. DPDC14
67. Math about finding heat rate, given heat conduction = heat convection. DPDC14
68. A furnace wall is made up of refractory brick of 300 mm thickness. The inner and outer surfaces
of the wall have temperature of 1000C and 150C. Find the heat loss per square meter.
PGCB11

STATICS & DYNAMICS

69. Finding tension of a cable in tension. BAPEX16, DPDC14
70. Find the relative velocity of the first man. Given 2 peoples and a cars velocity. DPDC14
71. Drawing a free body diagram of a given force system. PGCB15

HYDRAULICS AND FLUID MECHANICS

72. Write two fundamental assumptions in Bernoullis equation. BAPEX16

73. Write the Bernoullis equation for real and ideal fluid and indicate every terms. (GTCL,
APSCL, NWPGCL15, PDB) Is it an energy equation you think? If yes, then explain.
NWPGCL15
74. What is Newtonian fluid? Give examples. APSCL
75. What is priming? How it is done? APSCL
76. Draw the performance characteristics curves of a centrifugal pump. GTCL, PDB
77. What is the deviation of ideal Rankine cycle and actual Rankine cycle? PDB15
78. What is cavitation? What happens when it occurs? EGCB VIVA14
79. Write the significance of Froude Number, Reynolds Number and Nusselt Number.
NWPGCL15
Problems
80. A hydraulic machine has flow 8kg/sec, v=10m/s H=10m and efficiency=75%. Find the power
of the hydraulic machine. DPDC14
81. Math about Buoyancy and floatation. NWPGCL 14
82. A cylinder is of bore 80 mm and 100 mm stroke. If the clearance volume is 70x10^3, what is
the air standard efficiency? APSCL
83. A fluid flow with a pressure of 2 MPa and velocity of 1 m/s. In a nozzle it expands and pressure
becomes the atmospheric. Find the velocity after expansion, datum is same. BAPEX16
84. A centrifugal pump consumes 20 KW electric power. The efficiency is 70%. If the flow rate is
0.75 m3/s, find the diameter of the cylinder and head of the pump. PGCB11
85. Calculating the power in horse power of a pump where pressure difference is 20 bar and
discharge is 0.1 m3/s. PGCB15
86. A centrifugal pump is used to raise water at a height of 100 ft with discharge of 2.0 cusec. The
efficiency of the pump is 62%. Find the input horse power of the pump. GTCL, PDB
87. Math related to Bernoullis equation and pump power and efficiency. APSCL
88. Mathematical problem about pitot tube with Bernoullis equation. PDB15
89. Problem about finding pressure difference in a manometer given the density of two fluids and
manometric height. DPDC14

THEORY OF MACHINE
90. Name 4 types of gears. Mention the application of worm gear. PGCB15
91. An automobile car is 600 CC. The engine is 4 cylinder. The stroke length is equal to the bore
of the engine. Find the diameter of the cylinder. PGCB11

MACHINE DESIGN

92. Name the types of bearing? EGCB VIVA14

COMPUTER AND PROGRAMMING

93. What is algorithm in computer programming? WASA14
94. Write an algorithm and/or computer program to find out highest number unsorted in n numbers.
WASA14