1.

Hot tears, cold shuts, blow holes are defects typically found in
A) Casting
2. Meeting of two streams of molten metal coming from different directions is called
A) Cold shut
3. The casting process that is capable of producing complex shapes with the highest degree
of dimensional accuracy is called:
B) Investment casting
4. A forging defect caused by working at too low a temperature is
C) Burst
5. One defect that is not found in a cast product is:
A) A burst
6. Which of the welding process uses a non-consumable electrode?
C) TIG
7. As a billet is rolled into a bar section, any secondary piping is converted to
B) lamination
8. A piece of foreign material which has been pressed or rolled into the wrought material is
A) slugs
9. The gas that has an extremely high solubility in most molten metals and which is
frequently the cause of serious casting defects is:
C) Hydrogen
10. The heat treatment used on a ferritic steel component with the intention of producing a
fine, equiaxed grain structure with good all-round mechanical properties is called:
A) Normalising
11. Annealing is a process in which we get a
A) Soft low hardness material suitable for machining
12. The heat treatment that is intended to maximise the ductility of a steel component is
called:
A) Annealing
13. ___________ is achieved by slowly heating the hardened steel to temperature between
150 to 650 deg C to produce the required tensile strength and toughness properties
C) Tempering
14. The mechanical properties of steel can be changed or improved by:
A) Heat treatment
B) Hot working
C) Cold working
D) All of the above
15. The three substances required to charge a blast furnace are:
A) Coke, iron ore and limestone
16. _________ is a service failure which occurs due to cyclic stresses
B) Fatigue crack
17. What type of defect is caused, in rolled steel plate, by a shrinkage in the original bloom
or billet?
A) Lamination
18. What is meant by the term "ductility" when used in connection with a rolled product?
A) It is the amount of mechanical deformation that can be withstood prior to fracture
19. 18-8 type austenitic stainless steel is a
A) Paramagnetic material
20. A defect caused doe to misalignment of dies in forging is known as
A) A lap
21. The usual cause of slag inclusions in a manual metallic arc weld is:
B) Poor inter-run cleaning
22. Solidification crack in SAW generally comes in the
C) Weld centre line
23. Which of the following is the best definition for the term "heat affected zone"?
C) The term HAZ applies to the portion of the parent material that does not become molten
during welding but that is metallurgically changed by the heat of welding
24. The covering of electrodes for manual metallic welding contains de-oxidising agents,
which are similar to those used in the steel making process. The three most common such
agents are:
D) Manganese, silicon and aluminium
25. What is defect which occurs to loss of shielding in MIG welding
A) Porosity