ABDUL KALAM INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGICAL SCIENCES

II-I BTECH MECHANICAL, Mid-II Examination , FEBRUARY-2021

MATERIAL SCIENCE AND METALLURGY
Objective Exam
Name: Hall Ticket No:

Answer All Questions. All Questions carry Equal Marks.

I. Choose the Correct Alternative:

1. The treatment of steel to get a stronger casing while maintaining a soft core is called _________

a) Surface hardening
b) Tempering
c) Sintering
d) Surface lining

2. Which of the following is not a diffusion method of surface heat treatment?

a) Carburizing c) Induction hardening

b) Cyaniding d) Carbonitriding

3. How does the rate of cooling affect the hardness of the metal?

a) Slow cooling, hard material c) Rapid cooling, soft material

b) Slow cooling, soft material d) No effective change

4. Which of the following is not a stage of annealing?

a) Heating c) Tempering
b) Soaking d) Quenching

5.  Full annealing is applied to which kind of materials?

a) Steel castings c) High carbon steels

b) Steel wires d) Sheet products

6. What is the result of full annealing of hypo eutectoid steels?

a) Coarse pearlite c) Cementite

b) Bainite d) Silicon

7. Which of the following processes will one use on hardened steel to reduce brittleness?

a) Annealing c) Spheroidizing
b) Normalizing d) Tempering

8. Time temperature transformation diagrams are drawn for ______________

a) Iron c) Any alloy

b) Manganese d) Only steel
9. Which of the following phase will be resulted when the transformation temperature of steel is more than
750 °C?

a) Austenite c) Bainite
b) Pearlite d) Martensite

10. Which of the following can be carbon composition of cast iron?

a) 1% c) 0.5%
b) 1.5% d) 2.5%

II. Fill in the Blanks:

1. The smallest portion of a crystal which when repeated in different directions generates the entire crystal is
called
2. Most unsymmetrical Bravais lattice in terms of axial distances and angles is
3. In type of dislocation an extra plane is inserted inside the crystal.
4. At angle are Hartmann lines inclined to the tensile axis.
5.  Along the phase boundaries, the phases on either side will be in
6. Gibbs phase rule for metallurgical system is
7. The degree of freedom at a triple point in the unary diagram for water is 
8. At temperature is martensite heated in tempering.
9. Hardness number decreases with an increase in content in steel.
10. At temperature does pure iron turn into FCC structure.