Subject Code & Name 18EDPE19 - WEAR ANALYSIS AND CONTROL

Department Ph.D. – Mechanical Engineering

Year & Sem 2019 – 2020 (ODD)
Quiz - 1

1. What type of wear occurs due to an interaction of surfaces due to adhesion of the metals?
a) Adhesive wear b) Abrasive wear
c) Fretting wear d) Erosive wear

2. Adhesive wear and abrasive wear are wear modes generated under _______.
a) Plastic contact b) strain contact
c) Elastic contact d) stress contact

3. Wear rate of the brittle material is strongly dependent on______________?

a) Fatigue toughness b) Fracture toughness
c) Fretting wear d) Erosive wear

4. Adhesive wear is influenced by which parameter?

a)Electronic structure b) crystal structure
c) Crystal orientation d) All the above

5. A number of possible mechanism describing crack initiation and propagation can be proposed
using postulates of the _________.
a) Adhesive wear theory b) Archard wear equation
c) Dislocation theory d) All the above

6. where a certain number of repeated contacts are essential for the generation of wear particles.
Wear generated after such contact cycles is called_____________.
a) Adhesive wear b) Abrasive wear
c) Erosive wear d) Fatigue wear

7. In the friction between metallic materials, conformity at the contact interface without catastrophic
wear is easily observed as the ______________.
a) ploughing mode b) wear
c) debris d) crater

8. What is lambda ratio in surface asperity ?

a) lubricant film thickness (h) to surface b) surface roughness (σ) to lubricant film
roughness (σ) thickness (h)
c) Film thickness to surface waviness d) Surface waviness to film thickness

9 Which increase the sliding surface for influence wear rate

a) Toughness b) Hardness
c) Fatigue d) abrasive

10 Relative motion between two smooth solid surfaces in contact under load ?
a) Adhesive wear b) Abrasive wear
c) Sliding wear d) Erosive wear