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Engineering Materials problems


  • 1. The fuel used in a blast furnace is

  • Options
  • A. coal
  • B. coke
  • C. wood
  • D. producer gas
  • Discuss
  • 2. During the operation of a bessemer converter, the white flame indicates that the silicon and managenese had burnt and carbon has started oxidising.

  • Options
  • A. Agree
  • B. Disagree
  • Discuss
  • 3. The heat treatment process used for castings is

  • Options
  • A. carburising
  • B. normalising
  • C. annealing
  • D. tempering
  • Discuss
  • 4. The slag from the blast furnace

  • Options
  • A. is used as a ballast for rail road
  • B. is mixed with tar for road making
  • C. consists of calcium, aluminium and ferrous silicates
  • D. all of the above
  • Discuss
  • 5. The temperature point at which the change starts on heating the steel is called

  • Options
  • A. lower critical point
  • B. upper critical point
  • C. point of recalescence
  • D. point of decalescence
  • Discuss
  • 6. The limestone in the charge of a blast furnace decomposes to give lime and carbon dioxide. The lime thus obtained

  • Options
  • A. controls the grade of pig iron
  • B. acts as an iron-bearing mineral
  • C. supplies heat to reduce ore and melt the iron
  • D. forms a slag by combining with impurities
  • Discuss
  • 7. Which of the following statement is wrong?

  • Options
  • A. The spheroidising process is usually applied to high carbon tool steels which are difficult to machine
  • B. In spheroidising process, the cementite in the granular form is produced in the structure of steel
  • C. The annealing process causes complete recrystallisation in steels which have been severely cold worked and a new grain structure is formed
  • D. none of the above
  • Discuss
  • 8. The portion of the blast furnace above its widest cross-section is called

  • Options
  • A. hearth
  • B. stack
  • C. bosh
  • D. throat
  • Discuss
  • 9. Face centred cubic space lattice is found in gamma-iron, aluminium, copper, lead, silver and nickel.

  • Options
  • A. True
  • B. False
  • Discuss
  • 10. The slow cooling of steel from the __________ results in a coarse grained structure.

  • Options
  • A. lower critical point
  • B. upper critical point
  • Discuss

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