Which of the following simple mechanical

machine with the ability to increase an A. Gears

applied force? B. Pulleys
C. Flywheels
D. Ropes
A. Hinges
B. Lever
C. Roller Ans: B
D. Spring
What is usually the lose factor for most
Ans: B
wire ropes and chains with 1802 contact
Which of the following devices that is at low speeds?
mainly used to raise or lower an object?
A. varies from 1.03 to 1.06
A. Hoist B. varies 1.07 to 1.10
B. Lever C. varies from 1.20 to 1.50
C. Spring D. varies from 1.60 to 1.80
D. Roller
Ans: A
Ans: A Which of the following is the method to
determine the reactions on continuous
What is term applied to the process of beams?
separating different sizes of the same
material? A. two-moment equations
B. Second moment equations
A. Screening C. three-moment equations
B. Separation D. third moment equations
C. Sieving
D. Screening Ans: C

Ans:C In practice and theory as well, what is

the allowed permissible misalignment in
It is the process of separating a material cylindrical and tapered roller bearings?
into a variety of specifically sized
A. 0.005 rad
groups. B. 0.006 rad
C. 0.001 rad
A. Centrifugal D. 0.003 rad
B. Fractioning
C. Sieving Ans: C
D. Screening
In practice and theory as well, the
Ans: B misalignment of spherical bearings should
not exceed how many radians?
It is process in which metal is dropped in
A. 0.0087 rad
dilute acid solutions to remove dirt, B. 0.0065 rad
grease, and oxides. C. 0.0041 rad
D. 0.0043 rad
A. Pickling
B. Polishing Ans: A
C. Sheradizing
D. Pakerizing

Ans: A What term is used to describe a maximum

load that a bolt can withstand without
acquiring a permanent set?
Which of the following mechanism is used
to change the direction of an applied A. Live load
tensile force? B. Dead load
 C. Proof load
D. Ultimate load 40. Brass with 40% zinc are called ___

Ans: C A. muntz metal

B. bronze
In bolts design, the quotient of the proof C. yellow brass
load and the tensile-stress area is called D. admiralty metal

A. proof strength Ans. A

B. yield strength
C. section modulus How do you call a brass that contains 28%
D. modulus of resilience zinc, 1 % tin and very excellent corrosion
resistance especially in saltwater.
Ans: A
A. muntz metal
28. In bolts design, proof strength B. bronze
corresponds approximately how many percent C. yellow brass
of the 0.2 percent offset yield strength? D. admiralty metal

A. 85% Ans: D
B. 95%
C. 90% A brass with 40% zinc or same composition
D. 45% as muntz metal expect for the addition of
0.75% tin that contributes to the
Ans: C corrosion resistance of this material.

29. What type of brass that is usually A. naval brass

used to form tubing or piping to carry hot B. bronze
water in such application of radiators or C. cartridge brass
condenser? D. admiralty metal

A. Red brass Ans. A

B. Commercial brass
C. Yellow brass High pressure vessels and pipes carrying
D. Cartridge brass high pressure fluids develop which of the
following stresses?
Ans: A
A. tangential stress only
B. radial stress only
C. bearing stress only
30. It is in widespread use for the D. both radial and tangential stress
numbering system for cast iron by ASTM
(American Society for Testing and Ans. C
Material), then this system is based on
which of the following?

A. Bearing Strength
B. Compressive Strength
C. Axial Strength
D. Tensile Strength

Ans: D For the rotating elements like flywheels

and blowers, the analysis of stresses will
39. Which of the following is considered be based similar on which of the following
to be the lightest of all commercial theory?
metals and is used in aircraft industry?
A. thin-walled cylinder
A. titanium B. thick- walled cylinder
B. chromium C. radial ball bearing
C. magnesium D. rotating shaft member
D. aluminum
Ans. B
Ans. C
 A. stamping
45. For thin-walled pressure vessels, B. heading
which of the following statements is C. roll treading
correct of the stresses? D. spinning

A. Radial stresses is quite small as Ans. A

compared with the tangential stress.
B. Radial stresses is quite bigger as Which of the following processes produce a
compared with the tangential stress. refined grain structure and eventually
C. Radial stresses is same as increased strength and ductility of the
tangential stress. material?
D. Only radial stress is present and no
tangential stress. A. Extrusion
B. Cold working
Ans. A C. Forging
D. Hot rolling
46. How do you call the ratio of lateral
strain to longitudinal strain? Ans. C

A. Poission’s ratio
B. Modulus of resilience The S30200 is usually called and 18-8
C. Modulus of rigidity stainless steel, which means 8% of what?
D. Offset ratio
A. Chromium
Ans. A B. Nickel
C. Carbon
53. Which of the following processes D. Manganese
usually used to create a bar of material
of a particular shape and dimensions? Ans. B

A. extrusion It is a supersaturated solid solution of

B. cold working carbon in ferrite and it the hardest and
C. forging strongest form of steel?
D. hot rolling
A. Bainite
Ans. D B. Ferrite
C. Martensite
The G10400 is a plain carbon steel with D. Lignite
steel with a carbon content of which of
the following? Ans. C

A. 0.37 to 0.44%
B. 0.21 to 0.54%
C. 0.25 to 0.57%
D. 0.34 to 0.54%

Ans. A
The maximum-strain theory which apples
The S30200 is usually called and 18-8 only in elastic range of stresses are also
stainless steel, which means 18% of what? known as _______
A. chromium
B. nickel A. Hooke’s Law
C. carbon B. Saint Venant’s Theory
D. manganese C. Stress-strain Theory
D. Cataligno’s Theory
Ans. A
Ans. B
Which of the following terms is used to
descry punch-pressed operations like It refers to the collision of two or more
forming, blanking shallow drawing and
masses with initial velocities.
coining?
 A. Shock D. Engraver’s brass
B. Impact
C. Creep Ans. D
D. Load
The rapid cooling of steel to a
Ans. B
temperature between 400 to 800 deg F in
enough time, then austenite is transformed
A term used to describe sudden applied
into a materials called.
force or disturbance.
A. Bainite
A. Shock B. Lignite
B. Impact C. Quinite
C. Creep D. Ferrite
D. Load
Ans. A
Ans. A
A lubrication where lubricant is
A cone-disk spring is also known as _____
introduced between surfaces which are in
rolling contact such as roller gears or
A. Believille Spring
rolling bearings?
B. Heavy duty spring
C. Helical spring
D. Conical spring A. Hydrostatic lubrication
B. Hydrodynamic lubrication
C. Elastohydrodynamic lubrication
Ans. A
D. Solid-film lubrication

What is the other term used for die

Ans. C
casting?
What lubrication is usually used when
A. Thermosetting
bearings are operating at extreme
B. Shell-molding
C. Metal-mold casting temperatures?
D. Tangential casting
A. Hydrodynamic lubrication
Ans. C B. Solid-film lubrication
C. Hydrostatic lubrication
D. Liquid-film lubrication

Ans. B
Which of the following is not a form of
bearing lubrication?
It is a cold-working process in which
metal is gathered or upset.
A. Liquid-film lubrication
B. Hydrodynamic lubrication
A. Heading C. Hydrostatic lubrication
B. Cold rolling D. Solid-film lubrication
C. Spinning
D. Stamping
Ans. A

Ans. A
In ASTM standard, what is the instrument
used in determining viscosity?
Which of the following is the high-leaded
brass used for instrument, lock and watch
A. Dynamic viscometer
parts? B. Saybolt universal furol
C. Hagen-Poinsulle viscometer
A. Red brass D. Saybolt universe viscometer
B. Commercial brass
C. Yellow brass Ans. D
 What is the term applied to the reciprocal
In what country that the present theory of of the velocity ratio?
hydrodynamic lubrication originates from?
A. Train value
A. China B. Modular value
B. Germany C. Ratio factor
C. US D. None of these
D. England
Ans. A
Ans. D
For very slender column, what type of
In viscosity chart, Raimond-Boyd analysis formula that is best applied?
assumed that the viscosity of the
lubricant is _________. A. Column formula
B. Moment formulas
A. Constant C. Slenderness formulas
B. Increasing D. Euler formula
C. Decreasing
D. Vanishing Ans. A

Ans. A Which of the following is the type of

failure due to unstability?
What do you call the phenomenon occurring
when two touching surfaces have a high A. Buckling
contact pressure and when these surfaces B. Stability
have minute relative motion? C. Slenderness formulas
D. Euler formula
A. Prestressing
B. Friction Ans. A
C. Fretting
D. Carving

Ans. C What type of spring made in the form of

dished washer?
What type of bolt threaded on both ends
and can be used where a through bolt A. Air spring
impossible? B. Volute spring
C. Believille spring
D. Motor spring
A. Coupling
B. Stud bolt
C. Carriage bolt Ans. C
D. Machine bolt
What is the minimum number of teeth on a
Ans. B smaller sprocket for high speed?

What type of bolt distinguished by a short A. 12

potion of the shank underneath the head B. 21
being square or finned or ribbed? C. 24
D. 14
A. Coupling
B. Stud bolt Ans. B
C. Carriage bolt
D. Machine bolt Which of the following is the minimum
number of teeth on a smaller sprocket for
Ans. C moderate speed?

A. 15
 B. 12 C. Lateral
C. 21 D. None of these
D. 17
Ans. A
Ans. D
In a pressure vessel, the ratio of minimum
What is the minimum number of teeth on a strength of joint to the strength of solid
smaller sprocket for low speed? joint is known as

A. 11 A. Efficiency
B. 17 B. Performance factor
C. 21 C. Joint efficiency
D. 12 D. Relative strength

Ans. D Ans. D
Two shaft at right angles to each other
may be connected by what arrangement? When tested in compression, ductile
material usually exhibit________
A. Half turn characteristics up to the yield strength
B. ¾ turn as they do when tested in tension.
C. Quarter turn
D. One turn
A. the same
B. less than
Ans. C C. more than
D. approximately the same

ans. D

In pure torsion, the maximum stress is at

the center of the
What is the recommended initial tension of
the belt? A. peripheral sides
B. long sides
A. 75 lb/in of width C. medium sides
B. 71 lb/in of width D. short sides
C. 73 lb/in of width
D. 80 lb/in of width Ans: B

Ans. A The ability of a material to absorb energy

within is proportional limit is known as
The process by which high pressure is A. resilience
applied to a heated metal billet or blank B. endurance
which causes it to flow through restricted C. toughness
orifice. D. spring action

A. Extrusion Ans: A
B. Intrusion
C. Forging A method whereby a gear is run with
D. Hot rolling another gear that has abrasive surface
material.
Ans. A A. hobbing
B. honing
A tolerance where the size of a part is C. lapping
permitted to be either larger or smaller D. milling
than the given dimension.
Ans. C
A. Bilateral
B. Unilateral
What is material is produced if austenite Ans: A
is cooled rapidly to 400 deg. F or less?
Which of the following is a characteristic
A. Bainite of aluminium and its alloys?
B. Fermite
C. Martensite A. Resistance to corrosion
D. Lignite B. High thermal and electrical
resistance
Ans: C C. Strength to weight ratio
D. All of these
Stainless steels are iron-based alloys
that contain at least how many percent Ans: D
chromium?
The corrosion resistance of aluminium
A. 45% alloys depends upon which of the
B. 25% following?
C. 12%
D. 5% A. Thin coating oxide
B. Percentage of electrolyte present
Ans: C C. Dissolve ferrite
D. Casting of the material
The very high carbon steels have good
quench-harden ability up to how many Ans: A
percent chromium?

A. 35%
B. 12%
C. 18%
D. 15%
Which of the following cannot be a
Ans: C Poisson’s ratio of material?
A widely used in tool steels considering
that the will maintain its hardness even A. 0.35
it is red heat. The effect is like B. 0.20
molybdenum, except it is to be added in C. 0.57
greater quantities. D. 0.12

A. Vanadium Ans: C
B. Manganese
C. Tungsten Type of roller bearing in which the balls
D. Nickel are assembled by the eccentric
displacement of the inner ring.
Ans: C
A. Shallow groove ball bearing
Which of the following is the most widely B. Self-alignning ball bearing
used cast materials? C. Fillinf-shot ball bearing
D. Deep-groove ball bearing
A. White cast iron
B. Gray cast iron Ans: D
C. Malleable cast iron
D. Nodular cast iron Which of the following is not a type of
ball bearing?
Ans: B
A. Shallow groove ball bearing
What is the result if all the carbon in B. Self-aligning ball bearing
cast iron is in the form of cementite and C. Filling-slot ball bearing
pearlite with not graphite present? D. Deep-groove ball bearing

A. White Ans: A
B. Gray
C. Malleable Which of the following is the approximate
D. Nodular density of the leather belt?
 A. 0.025 lb/in^3 B. Varignon’s theorem
B. 0.035 lb/in^3 C. Soderberg’s theorem
C. 0.0135 lb/in^3 D. Cataligno’s theorem
D. 0.0465 lb/in^3
Ans. B
Ans: B It is the measure of the material’s
ability to yield and absorb highly
The breaking strength of oak-tanned localized and rapidly applied stresses.
beltings varies from 3 to more than:
A. Hardness
A. 5 ksi B. Toughness
B. 7 ksi C. Stiffness
C. 6 ksi D. Resilience
D. 9 ksi
Ans. B
Ans: C
What is term applied to the load at which
Based on experience, what is the most a column fails?
economical design belt speed?
A. Maximum load
A. 6000 to 7500 fpm B. Moving load
B. 3500 to 4700 fpm C. Critical load
C. 3000 to 5000 fpm D. Dynamic load
D. 5000 to 1000 fpm
Ans. C
Ans: A
It is otherwise known as the percentage
The tension in the belt due to centrifugal difference in solid and working
force increasing rapidly above about deflections?

A. 1500 fpm A. Clash allowance

B. 3500 fpm B. Spring allowance
C. 3000 fpm C. Working allowance
D. 2500 fpm D. Thrust allowance

Ans: D Ans. C

What is the recommendation speed for It is known as the shaft’s natural

leather belt? frequency of vibration.

A. 6000 to 7000 fpm A. Vibration index

B. 7000 to 8000 fpm B. Critical speed
C. 5000 to 6000 fpm C. High speed
D. 4500 to 5600 fpm D. Low speed

Ans: B Ans. B

What is the recommended speed for fabric What do you call the mixture of the solid
belts? ingredients with no solubility?

A. 4000 to 5000 fpm A. Binary alloy

B. 2000 to 3000 fpm B. Miscible alloy
C. 3000 to 4000 fpm C. Bitectic material
D. 2000 and more fpm D. Eutectic alloy

Ans: A Ans. D

Which of the following is the statement of
how the total moment is derived from a
number of forces acting simultaneously at
a point?
A. Goodman’s theorem
Which of the following terms applied to an
interrupted quenching process resulting in
an austenite to banite transition?
A. Austempering
B. Austenitizing
 C. Martempering B. Mohs hardness
D. Martenitizing C. Knoop test
D. Brinell test
Ans. A
Ans. A
Which of the following processes where the
material will become progressively
stronger, harder and more brittle until Which of the following dynamometer is
eventually fails? widely used for absorption of wide range
of powers at wide range of speeds?
A. Hot working
B. Cold Working A. Hydraulic
C. Tempering B. Belt transmission
D. Normalizing C. Rope brake
D. Electric generator
Ans. B
Ans. A

Which of the following dynamometer is used

for power measurement when the speed is
high and the viscous force is small?

In damped free vibration, when the system

A. Tesla fluid friction dynamometer
returns to its static position with the …… B. Froude water vortex dynamometer
equilibrium, the system is said to be C. Rope brake dynamometer
D. Amsler dynamometer
A. Underdamped
B. Overdamped Ans. A
C. Resonant
D. Critically damped
In case of spur gears the flank of the
tooth is
Ans. D
A. The part of the tooth surface lying
Balancing o grinding wheel is done to
below the pitch surface
B. The curve forming face and flank
A. Make the outside diameter concentric C. The width of the gear tooth measures
with the bore axially along the pitch surface
B. Make the sides of wheel parallel D. The surface of the top of the tooth
C. Equalize the weight in every portion
of the wheel Ans. A
D. None of the above
The cam angle is
Ans. C
A grinding wheel is marked as 51A 46L 5V
A. The angle of rotation of the cam for
23, out of these 5 means
a definite displacement of the
follower
A. Kind of abrasive B. Angle subtended by live portion of
B. Structure
cam at the cam center’
C. Kind of bond
C. The angle subtended at the cam
D. Grain size
center by the portion of cam during
which the follower moves
Ans. B
D. The angle subtended by the cam at
It is also known as diamond pyramid
the cam center when the follower
hardness test, uses a pyramid shaped
dwells.
diamond indenter and a load that ranges
from 1 kg to 120 kg.
Ans. A

A. Vickers test
For a kinematic chain to be considered as B. Perforating
mechanism C. Lancing
D. Notching
A. None of the links should be fixed
B. One link should be fixed Ans. A
C. Two links should be fixed
D. There is no such criterion

Ans. B

The mechanism used to enlarge or reduce

moments for reproducing drawings to
different scales is called

Slip in belt drive is A. Clinograph

B. Trisquare
A. Loss of power C. Graphometer
B. Difference between the angular D. Bantograph
velocities of two pulleys
C. Difference between the velocities of Ans. D
two pulleys
D. Difference between the linear speed Which of the following is a higher pair?
of the rim of pulley and the belt on
it. A. Thomson an indicator mechanism
B. Double Mc Innes Indicator mechanism
Ans. D C. Hart’s straight line mechanism
D. Tooth gearing mechanism
Multiple collars are provided on a flat
collar pivot bearing to Ans. D

A. Increase frictional resistance A process of indenting but not breaking

B. To establish self-sustaining bearing through the surface of a workpiece with a
condition punch in order to produce a cavity of an
C. Distribute the frictional load due impression
to limiting friction
D. Distribute the axial load due to A. Heading
limiting bearing pressure on a B. Cogging
collar C. Barreling
D. Piercing
Ans. D
Ans. D
In gramophones for adjusting the speed of
the tum-table, the following type of What describes very rough grinding such as
governor is commonly used that performed in foundries to remove
gates, fins and risers from castings?
A. Hartung governor
B. Inertia governor A. Snagging
C. Pickering governor B. Honing
D. Wilson hartnell C. Lapping
D. Snugging
Ans. C
Ans. A
Shearing the sheet into two or more pieces
Which of the following is a single measure
A. Parting that combines the external dynamic load of
an application with a gear drive’s It is one of the rigid members / bodies
reliability and operating life? joined together to form a kinematic chain.

A. Ratio factor A. Coplanar

B. Service factor B. Link
C. Reliability factor C. Frame
D. Life factor D. Machine

Ans. C Ans. B
What is the term used to described the
distance from a point on one gear to the
corresponding point measures along the
base circle.

A. Diametral Pitch
B. Circular Pitch
C. Normal Pitch
D. Chordal pitch

Ans. C
The kinematics chain in which one link is
considered fixed for the purpose of
Which of the following is the best method
analysis but motion is possible in other
used for increasing a spring’s fatigue
links.
life?
A. Belting
A. Sprickling B. Mechanism
B. Shot peening C. Frame
C. Stress relieving D. Sprocket Chain
D. Shot relieving
Ans. C
Ans. B
What describes very rough grinding, such
What is the term applied to parallel
as that performed in foundries to remove
forces equal in magnitude but opposite
gates, fins and risers from castings?
direction?
A. Snagging
A. Concurrent forces B. Honing
B. Non-concurrent forces C. Lapping
C. Couple D. Snugging
D. Equillibrant
Ans. A
Ans. C