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Assignment Seventh Sem
Assignment Seventh Sem
Assignment Seventh Sem
Assignment Booklet
B. Tech.
in
Aerospace Engineering
Programme
Seven Semester
Course Code Course Title
(Programme Coordinator)
Q1. Discuss different treatments given to hazardous waste before final disposal. Why are such treatments
necessary? Give names of such disposal methods which do not require pre-treatments.
Q2. Describe the salient benefits of management review in ISO-14001 of Environment Management
System for a sustainable development of the organiation.
Q4. Discuss global nuclear energy scenario. Explain their environmental impact.
Q6. What is biochemical oxygen demand (BOD)? How is it related to water quality?
Q7. Discuss the role of information technology in environmental management and health.
Q8. What is the Greenhouse effect? What is its importance to global climate?
Q9. (a) What are the natural air pollutants? Explain the properties of Nox, PAN and CO.
(b) Explain the effects of air pollution on human being.
Q10. (a) Explain the economic and social aspects of air pollution.
(b) What do you understand by sources and sinks of air pollution? Explain with an example.
Q11. (a) What are the major air pollutants present in urban ambient air? Explain in detail the procedure
of sampling and analysing of SOx.
(b) Explain the legal provisions of air pollution control.
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Q2 Calculate (a) the modulus of elasticity, (b) the tensile strength, and (c ) the fraction of the load
carried by the fiber for the following composite material stressed under isostrain conditions.
The composite consists of a continuous glass-fiber-reinforced-epoxy resin produced by using
60 percent by volume of E-glass fibers having a modulus of elasticity of Ef = 72 GPa and a
tensile strength of 2400 MPa and a hardened epoxy resin with a modulus of Em = 3 GPa and a
tensile strength of 62 MPa.
Q4 A metal matrix composite is made with 80 percent by volume of aluminum alloy 2124 –T6
and 20 percent by volume of SiC whiskers. The density of the 2124-T6 alloy is 2.77 g/cm3
and that of the whiskers is 3.10 g/cm3. Calculate the average density of the composite
material.
Q7. (a) How are glass fibers produced? What is a glass-fiber roving?
(b) What properties make carbon fibers important for reinforced plastics?
Q8. (a) What are two of the most important matrix plastics for fiber-reinforced plastics? What
are some advantages of each type?
(b) What are the main property contributions of the carbon fibers in carbon-fiber-
reinforced plastics? What are the main property contributions of the matrix plastics?
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Q9. (a) What is meant by the term compounding of plastics? What are the functions of
ingredients used in compounding of plastics?
(b) What do you understand by polymerization? State the characteristics of long chain
polymers. Describe briefly the deformation behaviour of plastics.
Q10. (a) Define monomer and polymer. Write typical polymeric repeat unit structure for both
addition and condensation polymerization which of the methods is expected to result in
branched structure? Explain.
(b) Explain chain polymerization reaction. What is the degree of polymerization? If a
particular type of polyethylene has a molecular mass of 140,000 g/mol, what is its
degree of polymerization?
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Q1. (a) Identify the sensor, signal conditioner and display elements in the measurement
systems of (i) a mercury-in-glass thermometer, (ii) a bourdon pressure gauge.
(b) Explain the difference between open- and closed- loop control,
Q2. (a) The automatic control system for the temperature of a bath of liquid consists of a
reference voltage fed into a differential amplifier. This is connected to a relay, which
then switches on or off the electrical power to heater in the liquid. Negative feedback
is provided by a measurement system, which feeds a voltage into the differential
amplifier. Sketch a block diagram of the system and explain how the error signal is
produced.
(b) Explain what is meant by sequential control and illustrate your answer by an example.
Q3. (a) State steps that might be present in the sequential control of a dishwasher.
(b) Compare and contrast the control system for the domestic central heating system
involving a bimetallic thermostat and that involving a microprocessor.
Q4. Explain the significance of the following information given in the specification of
transducers:
(a) A piezoelectric accelerometer.
Non-linearity: ±0.5% of full range.
(b) A capacitive linear displacement transducer.
Non-linearity and hysteresis: ±0.01% of full range.
(c) A capacitance fluid pressure transducer.
Accuracy: ±1% of displayed reading.
(d) Gyroscope for angular velocity measurement.
Repeatability: ±0.01% of full range.
Q5. Suggest a sensor that could be used, as part of a control system, to determine the difference in
levels between liquids in two containers. The output is to provide an electrical signal for the
control system.
Q6. Suggest the elements that might be considered for the measurement systems to be used to:
(a) Monitor the pressure in an air pressure line and present the result on a dial, no great
accuracy being required.
(b) Monitor the weight of lorries passing over a weighing platform.
Q7. (a) Describe the basic details of (i) a poppet vale, (ii) a shuttle valve.
(b) Explain how a sequential valve can be used to initiate an operation only when another
operation has been completed.
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Q8. (a) What are the limitations of the two-step (on-off) control and in what situation is
Such a control system commonly used?
(b) A temperature probe having a first-order response with a time constant of 1 second is
giving a step input 50°C from 0°C. Calculate the temperature indicated 0.6 second
after the application of the input.
Q9. (a) A 6-bit D/A converter gives an output voltage of 8.625 volts for an input of 010111.
What is the step size, the full range voltage and the percentage resolution?
(b) A typical A/D converter has 12- bit resolution and a full range of 10 volts. What is the
percent resolution and voltage resolution of this device?
Q10. (a) A linear second-order, single-degree-of-freedom system has a mass of 8 gm and a
stiffness of 1000N/m. Calculate the natural frequency of the system. Determine the
damping constant necessary to just prevent overshoot in response to a step input of
force.
(b) What is the main advantage of a capacitive proximity switch over the inductive
proximity switch?
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Q.1 (a) Define the term quality control and explain its objectives.
(b) What is quality audit? An inspection revealed total defects in a sample. Product audit
found 2 additional defects. What is the inspection effectiveness?
.
(10)
Q.2 (a) Differentiate between KAIZEN and Innovation? Describe PDCA cycle with the help of
neat sketch.
(b) (b) What is the difference between price of conformance and price of non-
conformance? Explain with the help of suitable examples.
(10)
Q.3 (a) What are common points in Juran’s, Grossby’s and Feigenbamm’s philosophies? What
was Ishikawa’s attitude towards TQM?
(b) How did Japanese achieved high performance in industrial activities? Explain.
(10)
Q.4 (a) What is Design of experiment? What are the different factorial experimentation methods?
Explain in brief.
(b) What is bench marking? Briefly describe the steps to be followed in bench marking
process.
(10)
Q.5 (a) What do you understand by quality function of QFD and house of quality in an industrial
company?
(b) Briefly describe FMEA and FMECA methodologies. Also explain the applications and
benefits of FMEA/ FMECA.
(10)
Q.6 (a) What are essential elements of evaluation of the performance of a supplier during the
execution of a contract? In what way the supplier surveillance would benefit the
purchaser company?
(b) Explain the concept of cost of quality? Discuss the various types of quality costs. What
kind of costs should a firm be more concerned with?
(10)
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Q.7 (a) The total number of failures is 112. The total number of maintenance house used to
correct the 112 failures is 672. Calculate maintainability for 3, 7, 10 and 12 hr.
(b) An equipment is required to meet an inherent availability of Ai= 0.65 and a mean time
between failures (MTBF) is 100 hr. What is permissible mean time to repair (MTTR).
(10)
Q.8 (a) Data for the test results of 18 samples of 300 items are shown below Draw P-chart.
Table :1
Sample 1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 10 11 12 13 14 15 16 17 18
Number
Number of 30 36 33 27 33 39 24 24 12 39 18 27 24 33 21 30 06 10
Defectives
(b) The following sample means and standard deviations are observed for samples of size 5.
Construct Process Control Charts for these data.
Table :2
Sample X S
1. 2.15 0.14
2. 2.07 0.10
3. 2.10 0.11
4. 2.14 0.12
5. 2.18 0.12
6. 2.11 0.12
7. 2.10 0.14
8. 2.11 0.10
9. 2.06 0.09
10. 2.15 0.08
11. 2.12 0.17
12. 2.19 0.13
Q. 9 (a) Discuss the role of analytical tools. Describe the cause-and-effect diagram with help of
suitable example.
(b) Define and discuss the relation between the following terms:
(i) Reliability
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(ii) Maintainability
(iii) Availability
(10)
Q. 10 (a) A parallel system, having two components A and B is shown in figure: 1. The reliability
of the component A be 72% while the reliability of the component B be 28%. What is the
probability that the system will work?
A
(b) Find the system reliability of the following systems shown in figure. 2.
A
D G
B F
E H
C
Figure : 2
If reliability of each unit is 0.45, find the system reliability.
A
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