76. What do you call the property of a material, which is the resistance to penetration by other materials?

Answer: Hardness
77. What do you call the property of a material, which is the resistance to penetration by other materials?

Answer: Hardness
78. It is the property of a metal to harden uniformly and completely to its center. What is this property?

Answer: Hardenability
79. How do you call the metal property, which enables metals, when in its liquid state, to join easily with another liquid metal?

Answer: Fusibility
 80. It is an attempt to duplicate how the human mind works in computer processed. How do you call this?

Answer: Artificial intelligence

 81. How do you call an application of computer technology to planning, performing, and implementing the design process?

Answer: Computer-Aided Design

82. It a design approach wherein all disciplines involved with products is in the development process from beginning to end. How do you call this?

Answer: Concurrent Engineering

83. How do you call the transformation of concepts and ideas into useful machinery?

Answer: Design
84. It is a system of units where force is measured in pounds force (lb f), length in inches (in.), and time in seconds (s), mass in pounds mass (lb m), and temperature in degrees Rankine ( oR). How do you
call this system of units?

Answer: English System of units

 85. It is a design approach where no catastrophic loss can occur as a result of a component failure. What is this design approach?

Answer: Fail-safe design approach

86. It is the condition of a machine element when it is completely inoperable, cannot perform its intended function adequately, or is unreliable for continued safe use. What do you call this condition?

Answer: Failure condition

 87. How do you call a statistical data used to identify the most likely failure modes?

Answer: Fault free analysis

88. It is a computational method used for solving complex shapes, such as those found in machinery; replaces the complex shape with a set of simple elements interconnected at a finite set of a specific purpose.
What is this computational method?

Answer: Finite element analysis

 89. It is a design approach where needed service is made apparent before catastrophic failure. How do you call this?

Answer: Manifest danger design

approach
 90. How do you call a synergetic collection of machine elements?

Answer: Mechanical system

 91. What is the ratio of allowable stress to a design stress?

Answer: Safety factor

92. How do you call a system of units where force is measured in Newton (N), length in meters, time in seconds (s), mass in kilograms (kg), and temperature in degree Kelvin (K)?

Answer: SI system of units

93. How do you call a structural member designed to support loads perpendicular to its longitudinal axis?

Answer: Beam
 94. It is a load applied transversely to longitudinal axis of member. How do you call this load?

Answer: Bending load

 95. What is a load distributed over an entire area?

Answer: Distributed load

 96. How do you call a combination of two or more previously defined loads?

Answer: Combined load

 97. It is a sketch of parts showing all acting forces. How do you call this?

Answer: Free-body diagram

 98. It is a beam where one end is fixed and other end is free. How do you call this beam?

Answer: Cantilever beam

99. It is a method used to graphically visualize state of stress acting in different planes passing through a given point. What is this?

Answer: Mohr’s circle

 100. It is a load passing through centroid of resisting section. What do you call this load?

Answer: Normal load

 101. It is a section of a machine parts where largest internal stress occurs. What is this section?

Answer: Critical section

 102. It is a plane that cuts across corner of principal element so that eight planes form octahedron. How do you call this plane?

Answer: Octahedral plane

103. How do you call a combination of applied normal and shear stresses that produces maximum principal normal stress or minimum principal normal stress, with a third principal stress between or equivalent to the extremes?

Answer: Principal normal stress

 104. How do you call the combination of applied and shear stresses that produces maximum principal shear stress or minimum principal shear stress?

Answer: Principal normal stress

 105. What do you call a load collinear with transverse shear force?

Answer: Shear load

 106. It is the measure of angular distortion in which shear stress is applied. How do you call this?

Answer: Shear strain

107. How do you call the characteristic that causes a metal to fracture (break) under a repeated load that is well below the tensile strength of the metal?

Answer: Fatigue
108. It is a Grashof four-bar mechanism in which the shortest link is the frame or fixed link and the other two cranks completely rotate with their axes. How do you call this Grashof four-bar mechanism?

Answer: Drag-link mechanism

 109. It is a mechanism that includes an oscillating link or reciprocating slider that moves forward slowly and returns quickly, with constant speed input. What is this mechanism commonly called?

Answer: Quick-return mechanism

110. What is the intensity and direction of internal force acting at given point on particular plane?

Answer: Stress
111. It is the capacity of a material to absorb energy when it is deformed elastically and then, upon unloading, to increase this energy. What is this capacity of a material?

Answer: Resilience
 112. How do you call the strain energy per unit volume required to stress a material from an unloaded state to the point of yielding?

Answer: Modulus of resilience

 113. What is the ability of the material to absorb energy up to fracture?

Answer: Toughness
 114. It is a failure prediction theory, which states that a part subjected to any combination of loads will fail (by yielding or fracturing) whenever the maximum shear stress exceeds a critical value. How do you call this failure prediction theory?

Answer: Maximum-shear-stress
theory
115. This is a theory in cyclic and impact loading, which states that damage at any stress level, is proportional to number of cycles. What is this theory commonly called?

Answer: Miner’s Rule

 116. It is journal bearing where the radius of the journal is less than the radius of the bushing or bearing. What is this journal bearing?

Answer: Clearance journal bearing

117. This is lubrication where the load-carrying surfaces of the bearing are separated by a relatively thick film of lubricant, so as to prevent metal-to-metal contact; and where the stability of the film can be explained by the laws of fluid mechanics. How do you call this type of lubrication?

Answer: Hydrodynamic lubrication

 118. This is a lubrication condition where non-conformal surfaces are completely separated by lubricant film and no asperities are in contact. How do you call this lubrication condition?

Answer: Elastohydrodynamic
lubrication
 119. How do call the speed at which a rotating shaft becomes dynamically unstable?

Answer: Critical speed

 120. How do you call a ball bearing with race containing pronounced groove for rolling elements?

Answer: Conrad bearing

121. This is a machining process for producing internal straight cylindrical surface or profiles, with process characteristics and tooling similar to those for turning operations. What is this machining process?

Answer: Boring
122. This is a machining operation for all types of metallic and nonmetallic materials and is capable of producing circular parts with straight or various profiles. How do you call this machining operation?

Answer: Turning
123. What is a set of specification for parts, materials, or processes intended to achieve uniformity, efficiency, and a specified quality?

Answer: Standard
124. This is a set of specifications for the analysis, design, manufacture, and construction of something; the purpose of which is to achieve a specified degree of safety, efficiency, and performance or quality. How do you call this set of specifications?

Answer: Code
 125. It is an American nonprofit society, founded in 1921, whose objectives are to improve and advance the use of fabricated structural steel. What is this society?

Answer: American Institute of Steel

Construction (AISC)
 126. This is a sketch of a machine, a machine element, or part of a machine element that shows all acting forces, such as applied loads and gravity forces, and all reactive forces. How do you call this?

Answer: Free body diagram

127. How do call the size to which limits or deviations is assigned and is the same for both members of the fit; it is the exact theoretical size?

Answer: Basic size

 128. What is the algebraic difference between a size and the corresponding basic size?

Answer: Deviation
 129. What is the algebraic difference between the maximum limit and the corresponding basic size?

Answer: Upper deviation

 130. What is the algebraic difference between the minimum limit and the corresponding basic size?

Answer: Lower deviation

 131. This is either the upper or the lower deviation, depending on which is closer to the basic size. How do you call this deviation?

Answer: Fundamental deviation

 132. What is the difference between the maximum and minimum size limits of a part?

Answer: Tolerance
 133. What are the stated maximum and minimum dimensions?

Answer: Limits
134. This is a general term that refers to the mating of cylindrical parts such as bolt or a hole; it is used only when the internal member is smaller than the external member. How do you call this?

Answer: Clearance
 135. What is the opposite of clearance, for mating cylindrical parts in which the internal member is larger than the external member?

Answer: Interference
 136. What is the minimum stated clearance or the maximum stated interference for mating parts?

Answer: Allowance
 137. How do you call the property of a material that measures the degree of plastic deformation sustained at fracture?

Answer: Ductility
 138. These are compounds of metallic elements, most frequently oxides, nitrides, and carbides.

Answer: Ceramics
 139. What do you call a material having different properties in all directions at point in solid?

Answer: Anisotropic material

 140. This is a material having different properties in three mutually perpendicular directions at point in solid and having three mutually perpendicular planes of material symmetry. What is this material?

Answer: Orthotropic material

 141. What are the combinations of two or more materials, usually consisting of fiber and thermosetting polymer?

Answer: Composite materials

 142. A theorem stating that “when a body is elastically deformed by a system of loads, the deflection at any point p in any direction a is a equal to the partial derivative of the strain energy (with the system of loads acting) with respect to a load at p in the direction a”. What is this theorem?

Answer: Castigliano’s Theorem

 143. This is a principle or method that a deflection at any point in bar is equal to sum of deflections caused by each load acting separately. How do you call this method or principle?

Answer: Method of superposition

 144. What is a failure prediction theory in which failure is caused by the elastic energy associated with shear deformation?

Answer: Distortion-energy theory

 145. How do call a wire rope in which the wires and strands are twisted in same direction?

Answer: Lang lay

 146. What is a form of correction that develops on highly localized areas on a metal surface?

Answer: Apitting
 147. How do you call the corrosion of iron-base-alloys?

Answer: Rusting
 148. This is an iron in which most of the carbon is chemically combined with the iron. What is this iron commonly called?

Answer: White iron

 149. This is a machining operation whereby the tools rotate while the feed is stationary. What do you call this machining operation?

Answer: Milling
 150. Which of the following metals is easy to chisel?

Answer: Manganese steel