Engineering Materials

41. Chromium in steel

  1. improves wear resistance, cutting ability and toughness
  2. refines grain size and produces less tendency to carburisation, improves corrosion and heat resistant properties
  3. improves cutting ability and reduces hardenability
  4. gives ductility, toughness, tensile strength and anticorrosion properties
  5. makes steel hard.

Correct answer: (A)
improves wear resistance, cutting ability and toughness

42. Cobalt in steel

  1. improves wear resistance, cuttinability and toughness
  2. refines grain size and produces les tendency to carburisation, improve corrosion and heat resistant proper ties
  3. improves cutting ability and reduce hardenability
  4. gives ductility, toughness, tensile strength and anti corrosion property:
  5. none of the above.

Correct answer: (C)
improves cutting ability and reduce hardenability

43. Cold rolled steel sheets contain carbon of the following order

  1. 0.1%
  2. 0.2%
  3. 0.4%
  4. 0.6%
  5. 0.8%.

Correct answer: (A)
0.1%

44. Compressive strength of grey cast iron in tonnes/cm is of the order of

  1. 43954
  2. 44017
  3. 44111
  4. 42278
  5. 15-22.

Correct answer: (B)
44017

45. Connecting rod is usually made of

  1. aluminium
  2. low carbon steel
  3. medium carbon steel
  4. high carbon steel
  5. cast iron.

Correct answer: (C)
medium carbon steel

46. Constantant an alloy used in thermocouples is an alloy of

  1. copper and tin
  2. copper and zinc
  3. copper and iron
  4. copper and nickel
  5. copper and chromium.

Correct answer: (D)
copper and nickel

47. Corrosion resistance of steel is increased by adding

  1. chromium and nickel
  2. nickel and molybdenum
  3. aluminium and zinc
  4. tungsten and sulfur
  5. none of the above.

Correct answer: (A)
chromium and nickel

48. Corrosion resistance of steel is increased by addition of

  1. chromium and nickel
  2. sulphur, phosphorus, lead
  3. vanadium, aluminium
  4. tungsten, molybdenum, vanadium, chromium
  5. zinc.

Correct answer: (A)
chromium and nickel

49. Corrundum contains more than 95%

  1. steel
  2. A1203
  3. Si02
  4. MgO
  5. german silver.

Correct answer: (B)
A1203

50. Cupola produces following material

  1. ast iron
  2. pig iron
  3. wrought iron
  4. malleable iron
  5. white iron.

Correct answer: (A)
ast iron

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