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06 Mechanical
JALANDHAR
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Stream (Engg./Arch./Pharm./Mgmt./App.Sci./Life Sci.) Engineering
Discipline Mechanical Engineering
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Roll No. Date: 15-01-2011
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1. A strain gauge is usually used for 6. In case of critical damping, the system
measurement using (a) becomes unstable
(a) an H-type transistor bridge (b) becomes purely oscillatory
(b) a Wheatstone bridge (c) becomes over damped
(c) a Voltmeter (d) is on the threshold of oscillation and over
(d) an ammeter damped condition
2. At the Breakeven point 7. the structures which have the highest packing
(a) fixed cost and variable cost are equal of atoms are
(b) sales revenue and total cost are equal (a) hexagonal close packed lattice
(c) sales revenue is more than total cost (b) body central cubic lattice
(d) sales revenue is less than total cost (c) simple cubic lattice
(d) none of the above
3. The Reynolds number for flow of a certain
fluid in a circular tube is specified as 2500. 8. Resistance spot welding is performed on two
What will be the Reynolds number when the plates of 1.5 mm thickness with 6 mm
tube diameter is increased by 20% and the diameter electrode, using 15000 A current for
fluid velocity is decreased by 40% keeping a time duration of 0.25 s. Assuming the
fluid the same? interface resistance to be 0.0001 ohm, the heat
(a) 1200 generated to form the weld is
(b) 3600 (a) 5625 Ws
(c) 200 (b) 8437 Ws
(d) 1800 (c) 22500 Ws
(d) 33750 Ws
4. Direction of rotation can be measured using
(a) an optical encoder with two tracks 9. A mass connected to a string at one end
mutually offset by a phase of 90 would continue to oscillate with the same
(b) an optical encoder with two tracks without amplitude if the system is
any phase offset (a) damped
(c) an optical encoder with only one track (b) undamped
(d) cannot be measured using an optical (c) under damped
encoder (d) critically damped
5. The actual observed time for an operation was
1 minute per piece. If the performance rating
of the operator was 120 and a 5 per personal
time is to be provided, the standard time in
minutes per piece is
(a) 1.000
(b) 1.200
(c) 1.250
(d) 1.263
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PUNJAB TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY, JALANDHAR
PL 3 18. In an ultrasonic machining process, the
10. is the deflection under the load P of a material removal rate will be higher for
3EI materials with
cantilever beam of length L, modulus of (a) higher toughness
elasticity E, moment of Inertia I. The strain (b) lower toughness
energy due to bending is (c) higher ductility
P 2 L3 P 2 L3 P 2 L3 (d) higher fracture strain
(a) (b) (c)
3EI 6 EI 4 EI 19. The outside diameter of a hollow shaft is
twice its inside diameter. The ratio of its
P 2 L3
(d) torque carrying capacity to that of a solid
48 EI shaft of the same material and the same
outside diameter is
11. A connecting rod is made by (a) 15/16 (b) 3/4 (c) 1/2 (d) 3/16
(a) casting
(b) drawing 20. A 750 hours life test is performed on ten
(c) forging components. If one component fails after 350
(d) extrusion hours of operation and all others survive the
test, then the failure per hour is
12. The cost of providing service in a queueing (a) 0.000141 (b) 0.000133
sytem increases with (c) 0.00141 (d) 0.00133
(a) increased mean time in the queue
21. In a plate cam mechanism with reciprocating
(b) increased arrival rate
roller follower, the follower has a constant
(c) decreased mean time in the queue
acceleration in the case of
(d) decreased arrival rate
(a) cycloidal motion
(b) parabolic motion
13. In computer aided drafting practice, an arc is
(c) simple harmonic motion
specified
(d) involute motion
(a) two end points only
(b) radius and one end point 22. A milling cutter having 8 teeth is rotating at
(c) center and radius 150 rpm. If the feed per tooth is 0.1, the table
(d) two end points and center speed in mm/min is
(a) 120
14. The effect of rake angle on the mean friction (b) 187
angle in machining can be explained by (c) 125
(a) Coulomb friction model (d) 70
(b) Sticking and then sliding friction model
(c) Sliding and then sticking friction model 23. A dummy activity is used in PERT network
(d) Stiction model to describe
(a) resource idleness
15. Using routing, the engineer can determine in (b) necessary time delay
advance (c) resource restriction
(a) flow of material in the plant (d) precedence relationship
(b) ways and means for proper utilization of
manpower 24. The chart which is useful for scheduling and
(c) inspection of the final product control is
(d) none of the above (a) Kanban (b) Gantt chart (c) Flow
process chart (d) X and R chart
16. In D.C. welding, the straight polarity
(electrode negative) results in 25. A mass of 1 kg is attached to the end of a
(a) less heating of work piece spring with a stiffness of 0.7 N/mm. The
(b) smaller weld pool critical damping coefficient of the system will
(c) lower penetration be
(d) lower deposition rate (a) 1.4 N.s/m (b) 52.9 N.s/m (c) 18.5
N.s/m (d) 529 N.s/m
17. Two rods, one of length L and the other of
length 2L are made of the same material and 26. In PERT, the distribution of activity times is
have the same diameter. The two ends of the assumed to be
longer rod are maintained at 100C. One end (a) Normal (b) Gamma (c) Beta
of the shorter rod is maintained at 100C (d) Exponential
while the other end is insulated. Both the rods
are exposed to the same environment at 40C. 27. Cutting power consumption in turning can be
The temperature at the insulated end of the significantly reduced by
shorter rod is measured to be 55C. The (a) increasing the cutting angle of the tool
temperature at the mid-point of the longer rod (b) increasing the clearance angle
would be (c) widening the nose radius of the tool
(a) 100C (b) 55C (c) 50C (d) 40C (d) increasing the rake angle of the tool
16
b) f
Re
64
c) f
Re
d) None of above