Design Department

Weekly Technical Quiz

Issue Number 67 (6th to 10th June 2011)

Questions for This Week
Q.133) A mild steel specimen is under uni-axial tensile stress. Youngs modulus and yield stress for mild
steel are 2 x 105 MPa and 250 Mpa respectively. The maximum amount of strain energy per unit volume
that can be stored in this specimen without permanent set is
a)
b)
c)
d)

156 Nmm/mm3
15.6 Nmm/mm3
1.56 Nmm/mm3
0.156 Nmm/mm3

Q.134) The old name of Taiwan was

a) Formosa

b) Qingdao

C) Dalian

d) Wuxi

Answer of the Last Weeks Questions

Q.131) If the depth of a cantilever is doubled and width is halved, the deflection of a cantilever due to a point load at
free end changes in the ratio
a)
b)
c)
1/8
d) 1/16
Q.132) The first death anniversary day of Sri Rajiv Gandhi was observed as the
ANS: Anti-Terrorism Day
a)
b)
c)
d)

National Integration Day

Peace and Love Day
Secularism Day
Anti-Terrorism Day

***Last Months Winners***

1)Mr. Mandar Karnik

2) Mr. Vinay Kumar

3) Mr. Madhusudan

Thought of the Week

And I too have a dream, I dream of India- Strong,
independent, self-reliant and in the front rank of the
nations of the world By - Rajiv Gandhi -

4) Mr. Najmuddin Saify

5) Mr. Aravind Ashok

Welcome to Design Team:

1. Kiran Patil
2. Ashish Harle

Rajiv Gandhi was born on August 20, 1944 in Bombay (Mumbai) in India's most famous political family. His
grandfather Jawaharlal Nehru played a stellar role in India's freedom struggle and became independent India's
first Prime Minister. His parents lived separately and Rajiv Gandhi was raised at his grandfather's home where
his mother lived. Rajeev Gandhi did his schooling from the elite Doon school and then studied at the University
of London and at Trinity College, Cambridge in Britain.

At Cambridge, Rajiv Ghandi met and fell in love with an Italian student Sonia Maino and they got married
in 1969. Returning to India, Rajeev Ghandi became a commercial airline pilot.

His younger brother Sanjay Gandhi entered politics and became a trusted
lieutenant of his mother Indira Gandhi. After Sanjay's death in a plane crash in
1980, Rajiv reluctantly entered politics at the instance of his mother. He won his
first Lok Sabha election in 1981 from Amethi-the erstwhile constituency of his brother.
Soon he became the General Secretary of the Congress Party. After the assassination of Indira
Gandhi in October 1984 he became the Prime Minister of India at the age of 40.

He called for general elections in 1984 and riding on a massive sympathy wave led Congress to a thumping victory. Congress
garnered 80 percent of the seats in the lower house and achieved its greatest victory since independence.
In his initial days as Prime Minister, Rajiv Gandhi was immensely popular. During his tenure as Prime Minister of India, he brought
certain dynamism to the premiership, which had always been occupied by older people. He is credited with promoting the
introduction of computers in India. Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi began leading in a direction significantly different from Indira
Gandhi's socialism.
In 1986, Rajiv Gandhi announced a national education policy to modernize and expand higher education
programs across India. A coalition comprising government came to the power but it could not last its full
term and general elections were called in 1991. While campaigning for elections in Sriperumbudur, Tamil
Nadu, Rajiv Gandhi was assassinated on May 21, 1991 by a suicide bomber belonging to LTTE.

For this seminar we will have an organizing

committee comprising several secretaries, joint
secretaries, chairman, co-chairman, national and
international advisors, and member for organizing,
scientific, public relations, entertainment, all totaling
about 100. Besides, there will be authors, sponsors,
advertisers and exhibitors which would make this
seminar a sure success, even if we dont have any
delegate!!!