MECORREL2 - MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Multiple Choice
Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question.

1. The maximum stress to which a material may be 6. It is the process of deforming a metal physically at
subjected before failure occurs: temperature below the recrystallization temperature
a. resilience an at a rate to produce strain hardening.
b. ultimate stress a. Tempering
c. endurance limit b. Hot Working
d. tensile stress c. Cold Working
d. Extrusion
2. Poisson’s ratio is the ratio of:
a. elastic limit to yield strength 7. It is the loss of carbon from the surface of steel,
b. lateral deformation to longitudinal deformation occuring during rollig, forging and heat treating,
c. shear strain to unit strength when the surrounding medium reacts wih the
d. elastic limit to shear strength carbon.
a. Decarburization
3. A substance with metallic properties, composed of b. Decarbonization
two or more elements of which at least one is a c. Relaxation
metal. d. Precipitation
a. alloy
b. mixture 8. Is a mechanical property that permits permanent
c. fusion deformation before fracture. It is also referred as
d. metal the tendency to fracture with appreciable
deformation.
4. A type of destructive test in which the specimen, a. Ductility
supported at both ends as a simple beam, is broken b. Brittleness
by the impact of a falling pendulum. c. Toughness
a. Izod Test d. Hardness
b. Charpy Test
c. Tensile Test 9. Which of the following ARE indices for measuring
d. Hardness Test ductility:
A - Percent Elongation
5. A type of destructive test in which the specimen, B - Percent Clearance
supported at both ends as a cantilever, is broken by C - Percent Reduction in Area
the impact of a falling pendulum. D - Percent Reduction in Volume
a. Izod Test
b. Charpy Test a. Both A and B
c. Tensile Test b. Both A and C
d. Hardness Test c. Both C and D
d. A, C and D

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10. The ability of a material to be deformed and to 17. The ability of metal to be deformed considerably
return to its original shape. without rupture.
a. Elasticity a. Elasticity
b. Plasticity b. Plasticity
c. Toughness c. Rigidity
d. Resilience d. Malleability

11. It involves the loss of ductility because of physical 18. The process of aging a body (metal) at an elevated
or chemical change of the material. temperature.
a. Porosity a. Tempering
b. Embrittlement b. Natural Aging
c. Inductility c. Artificial Aging
d. Malleability d. Annealing

12. It is the part of the carbon content of steel or iron 19. Associated with creep, this process is marked by
that is in the form of graphite or temper carbon. decreasing stress at a constant strain.
a. Free Carbon a. Relaxation
b. Reserve Carbon b. Yielding
c. Diamond c. Plastic Deformation
d. Working Carbon d. Damping

13. These are materials with the same properties in all 20. The process of increasing hardness and strength by
direction. plastic deformation at temperature lower than
a. allotropy recrystallization range.
b. anisotropy a. Strain Hardening
c. isotropy b. Tempering
d. azeotropy c. Normalizing
d. Annealing
14. An indefinite property that refers to the ease with
which materials can be cut. 21. The capacity of a material to withstand a shock
a. Rigidity load without breaking.
b. Ductility a. Impact Strength`
c. Malleability b. Toughness
d. Machinability c. Resiliece
d. Hardness
15. It is a mechanical property which indicates
material’s susceptibility to extreme deformation to 22. A steel that has been deoxidized with a strong
rolling or hammering. deoxidizing agent, such as aluminum or silicon, in
a. Resilience order to eliminate reaction carbon and oxygen
b. Ductility during solidification.
c. Toughness a. Rimmed Steel
d. Malleability b. Killed Steel
c. Wrought Steel
16. The smallest area at the point of rupture of a tensile d. Carburized Steel
specimen divided by the original area.
a. Percent Elongation 23. An incompletely deoxidized steel.
b. Percent Reduction in Area a. Rimmed Steel
c. Percent Reduction in Volume b. Killed Steel
d. Percent Deformation c. Wrought Steel
d. Carburized Steel

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24. A steel that has been hammered, rolled, or drawn in 30. Any heating or cooling process of steel that
the process of manufacture; it may be plain carbon produces a rounded globular form of carbide.
or alloy steel. a. Malleablizing
a. Rimmed Steel b. Graphitizing
b. Killed Steel c. Drawing
c. Wrought Steel d. Spheroidizing
d. Carburized Steel
31. Heating of metal body to sustainable temperature
25. The operation or combination of operation just below the transformation range for steel and
involving heatingand cooling of metals or alloys in holding it at that temperature for a suitable for
the solid state for the purpose of atering the reducing the internal residual stresses.
properties of the material. a. Normalizing
a. Case hardening b. Stress Releiving
b. Age hardening c. Relaxation
c. Heat Treatment d. Annealing
d. Oxidation Reaction
32. The process of reheating hardened or normalized
26. ASTM stands for: steel to temperature below the trasformation range,
a. American Society for Tests and Methods followed by any desired rate of cooling.
b. American Society for Test and Measures a. Tempering
c. American Society for Testing and Materials b. Anealing
d. Association of Societies for Tests and c. Quenching
Measures d. Normalizing

27. Heating and slow cooling of a solid metal to alter 33. A measure of a material’s resistance to indentation.
physical and mechanical properties, producing a. Toughness
particular microstructure,removig internal stresses b. Resilience
and removing gases. c. Hardness
a. Annealing d. Brittleness
b. Quenching
c. Normalizing 34. The following test are used to measure hardness
d. Tempering except:
a. None of the choices
28. Together with annealing, it causes the combined b. Rockwell
carbon to transform wholly or in part into graphitic c. Brinell
or free carbon. d. Vicker
a. Spheroidizing
b. Graphitizing 35. The capacity of steel to through-harden when
c. Carbonation cooled from above its transformation range.
d. Precipitation a. Hardenability
b. Conductivity
29. The process of heating an iron-based alloy to some c. Relativity
100°F above the transformation range with d. Porosity
subsequent cooling to below that range in still air at
room temperature in order to produce a uniform
structure.
a. Annealing
b. Normalizing
c. Spheroidizing
d. Tempering

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36. The process of adding carbon to the surface of steel 43. What is the common shop practice to prevent
by exposing it to hot carbonaceous solids, liquids solder from running away from surface to be
or gases - above the transformation temperature. joined?:
a. Carbonating a. all of these
b. Carburizing b. surround the work with clay
c. Case Hardening c. introduce around the work rolled wet cloth
d. Induction Hardening d. put asbestos sheeting around the work

37. It is the temperature interval during which austenite 44. Non-ferrous filler metal is melted into grooves ar
is formed during heating. as fillet on the mother metal; the base metal is not
a. Transfromation Range melted. this is commonly used for joining iron
b. Cooling Range based machine parts or in repair works of some
c. Approach Range materials. It is called:
d. Theoretical Range a. spot welding
b. braze welding
38. A mechanism which usually do the indexing in a c. brazing
machine tool: d. gas welding
a. universal chuck
b. slotter 45. Normal stress relieving temperature for cast steel:
c. dividing head a. 200 to 350ºF
d. indexing b. 400 to 500ºF
c. 300 to 400ºF
39. Which of the following is not a structural class of d. 450 to 550ºF
steel?
a. low carbon steel 46. Most effective alloying element for reducing
b. tool and die steel brittleness of steel at very low temperature:
c. high chrome alloy steel a. manganese
d. high strength low alloy steel b. molybdenum
c. silicon
40. All are associated with the grade of steel except: d. nickel
a. SAE43XX
b. SAE13XX 47. Ordinary steel begins to lose strength elasticity
c. SAE10XX significantly at about __ ºF:
d. SAE74XX a. 900 to 1000ºF
b. 800 to 900ºF
41. Recommend best cutting angle of drill for work on c. 750 to 850ºF
steel or cast iron is__degrees. d. 600 to 700ºF
a. 48
b. 63 48. For a high corrosion resistant stainless steel, what
c. 59 minimum chromium content is required?
d. 50 a. 8%
b. 4.3%
42. The property that characterizes a material ability to c. 1.1%
be drawn into a wire: d. 5.8%
a. ductility
b. thermal conductivity 49. Killed steel is always associated with:
c. tensile strength a. silicon
d. endurance limit b. manganese
c. phosphorous
d. sulfur

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50. The usual ratio of water to soluble oil used as 57. Liners normally made of:
cutting fluid: a. cast iron
a. 50% of water to 50% of oil b. alloyed bronze
b. 2 water to 1 oil c. alloyed steel
c. 3 water to 1 oil d. alloyed aluminum
d. 4 to 80 water to 1 oil
58. Endurance strength is nearly proportional the
51. The good deoxidizer in steel metling: ultimate strength but not with____.
a. manganese a. yield strength
b. silcon b. design stress
c. all of these c. shear stress
d. aluminum d. all of the above

52. What is the common cutting fluids used for cutting 59. Hooke’s law holds good up to
metals? a. elastic limit
a. all of these b. yield point
b. water with soda or borax c. plastic limit
c. light mineral oil d. breaking point
d. soluble oil
60. The ratio of linear stress to linear strain is
53. It is considered semi-solid lubricant: called
a. all of these a. Modulus of elasticity
b. lube oil b. Modulus of Rigidity
c. graphite c. Bulk Modulus
d. grease d. Poisson’s Ratio
54. Metals are conductive because: 61. The Young’s modulus for mild steel is
a. the electrons are loosely bound to the nuclei approximately equal to
and therefore mobile
a. 80 GPa
b. having a characteristics metallic luster
b. 110 GPa
c. they are on the left side for the periodic table
c. 190 GPa
d. they have extra electrons as exhibited by
d. 210 GPa
normally possible balance state
62. It is an alloy of copper with several different
55. The yield strength of a regular yellow brass (65 to
elements, one of which is usually tin.
75% Cu, 30 to 35%Zn) can be increased/improved
a. bronze
by:
b. brass
a. cold working
c. yellow brass
b. tempering
d. manganese bronze
c. chill casting
d. heat treatment 63. Which of the materials below has the lowest range
of values of Poisson’s ratio?
56. Used in as cast condition steel casting with carbon
a. cast iron
content less than__%C
b. steel
a. 0.26
c. aluminum
b. 0.15 to 0.18
d. copper
c. 0.20
d. 0.25

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64. Galvanized iron is a term referring to iron coated 71. A device used to prevent leakage of media
with a. packing
a. tin b. teflon
b. nickel c. seal
c. zinc d. cover adhesive
d. magnesium
72. Fluid film desired between two surfaces having
65. An alloy of copper and zinc relative sliding motion
a. bronze a. lube oil
b. brass b. grease
c. tin c. graphite
d. aluminum d. lubricant

66. The operation of cooling a heated piece of work 73. The ability of a material or metal to resist being
rapidly by dipping it in water, brine or oil. crushed
a. tempering a. compressive strength
b. quenching b. fatigue strength
c. annealing c. torsional strength
d. normalizing d. bending strength

67. The ability of metal to be deformed considerably 74. The ability of metal to withstand forces thus
without rupture following a number of twist
a. ductility a. shear strength
b. plasticity b. bearing strength
c. malleability c. endurance limit
d. toughness d. deformation

68. An alloy of copper and tin 75. The process commonly used for thermo-plastic
a. brass material is
b. bronze a. die casting
c. nickel b. injection molding
d. aluminum c. shell molding
d. cold forming
69. A material that can wear away a substance softer
than itself
a. corrosion
b. abrasive
c. alloy components
d. penetrator

70. An amorphous solid made by fusing silica with a

basic oxide
a. pearlite
b. glass
c. silicon
d. chip

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MECORREL2 - MATERIALS SCIENCE AND ENGINEERING

Answer Section

MULTIPLE CHOICE

1. ANS: B PTS: 1 KEY: Strengt of Materials

2. ANS: B PTS: 1 KEY: Strength of Materials
3. ANS: A PTS: 1
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59. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
60. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
61. ANS: D PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
62. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
63. ANS: A PTS: 1 DIF: Easy
64. ANS: C PTS: 1
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