1. A shearing machine is used to crop off length of round bar 20 mm diameter.

If the ultimate shear

strength of the material is 160 MPa, calculate the force needed to crop the bar.
a) 48 kN b) 53 kN c) 50.3 kN d) 55 kN

2. The force of a point of a shaper when the cutting is 1500 N. If the length of the stroke is 120 mm, how
much work is done in one cutting stroke?
a) 180 J b) 195 J c) 200 J d) 100 J

3. The shear strength of a plate is 300 MPa. Calculate the force required to punch a hole 40 mm diameter
in a plate 7 mm thick.
a) 200 kN b) 230 kN c) 250 kN d) 264 kN

4. The shear strength of a shaft is not exceed 30 MPa. The shaft is 100 mm. What is the greatest torque
that can be placed on it?
a) 5900 J b) 6100 J c) 6200 J d) 5200 J

5. Two shafts are connected by a flange coupling. The coupling is secured by 6 bolts, 20 mm in diameter
on a pitch circle diameter of 150 mm. If the torque of 120 N-m is applied, find the shear stress in the
bolts.
a) 0.85 N/mm2 b) 0.85 kPa c) 0.85 Pa d) 0.95 Pa

6. A thin hollow sphere of radius 10 in and thickness 0.10 in is subjected to an internal pressure of 100
psi. The maximum normal on an element of the sphere is:
a) 5000 psi b) 7070 psi c) 1410 psi d) 4500 psi

7. Determine the load in kN on a 30 mm diameter by 1000 mm long steel shaft if its maximum elongation
will not exceed 1.2 mm.
a) 167 b) 176 c) 199 d) 245

8. For most metals Poisson’s ratio lies in the range:

a) 0.25 to 0.35 b) 0.30 to 0.40 c) 0.35 to 0.45 d) 0.40 to 0.50

9. How long it will take for a 51 mm length keyway to be milled if the milling machine has a 24 teeth
cutter turning at 130 rpm and feed rate of 0.127 mm per tooth.
a) 0.281 min b) 0.218 min c) 0.128 min d) 0.812 min

10. Compute the polar section modulus in cu. inches of an SAE 1060 shafting having a diameter of 3
inches. Use a factor of safety of 2 design stress at 8000 psi.
a) 4.7 b) 6.1 c) 4.2 d) 5.3

11. What spindle speed is required to produce a cutting speed of 150 fpm on a 2 in diameter bar?
a) 120 rpm b) 200 tpm c) 287 rpm d) 1000 rpm

12. A round steel shafts transmits 50 kw and rotates at 150 rad/s. Find the angle of twist for a 3 meters
length shaft is allowable shearing stress of 40 MPa and G = 68 Gpa.
a) 4.3 deg b) 2.5 deg c) 5.8 deg d) 6.7 deg

13. The cutting speed of a tool passing thru 2.5 diameter material at 200 rpm.
a) 110 fpm b) 115 fpm c) 140 fpm d) 131 fpm

14. A shat is subjected to a twisting moment of 3.6 KN-m. The shaft is steel having 83 Gpa modulus of
rigidity. The torsional shear stress (in MPa) in a 76 mm circular shaft is:
a) 40 b) 39 c) 36 d) 41
15. A spur pinion rotates at 1800 rpm and transmit to a mating gear 50 HP. The pitch diameter is 6 in and
the pressure angle is 14 ½. Determine the tangential load.
a) 283 lbs b) 265 lbs c) 583 lbs d) 485 lbs

16. Compute the line shaft diameter to transmit 25 HP at 300 rpm with torsional deflection of 0.08 deg per
foot length. G = 12,000,000 psi.
a) 2 in b) 2.5 in c) 3 in d) 3.2 in

17. Determine the power transmitted by 1 in short rotating at 380 rpm.

a) 10 kw b) 7.46 kw c) 9.7 kw d) 6.10 kw

18. A flywheel has a diameter of 1.5 m and a mass of 1000 kg. What torque is needed to produce an
angular acceleration of 120 revolutions per minute, per second?
a) 3534 J b) 3354 J c) 3345 J d) 3453 J

19. The most effective alloy in increasing toughness of steel:

a) copper b) lead c) nickel d) all of these

20. When the steel castings are heat treated, the carbon content falls within the range of:
a) 0.20% b) 0.25 to 0.50% c) 0.15 to 0.20% d) 0.60%

21. Improves the ratio of endurance strength to ultimate strength of medium carbon steels:
a) copper b) tantalum c) vanadium d) all of these

22. Improves harden ability economically, resistance to corrosion strength at high temperatures:
a) manganese b) copper c) aluminum d) chromium

23. Increases harden ability at alloy steels:

a) manganese b) phosphorus c) molybdenum d) all of these

24. Improves the machine ability of alloy steels but affects different alloys differentially:
a) all of these b) selenium c) vanadium d) lead

25. Which of the following is not a classification of alloy steels?

a) medium carbon alloy b) low alloy c) high alloy d) medium alloy

26. In the SAE identification code of steel shafting the 3rd and 4th digits represents the content of:
a) % manganese on the steel b) % alloy elements
c) % carbon contents d) % chromium in the steel

27. A moving truck skids to a stop 20 meters after the brakes are applied while traveling 90 kph. What is
the acceleration in m/s2?
a) 15.6 b) 16.5 c) –15.6 d) –16.5

28. The process of increasing the carbon content to the surface of steel by exposing it to a hot
carbonaceous material above the transformation temperature of 1650 to 1750 deg F.
a) carbonitriding b) case hardening c) carburizing d) hardening

29. It is a general practice to use the following allowable stresses, 4000 psi for main power transmitting
shaft and 8500 psi for small, short, and countershafts. For line shaft carrying pulley it is ______ psi.
a) 8500 b) 7000 c) 6000 d) 6500

30. Steel that has been deoxidized with a strong deoxidizing agent such as silicon or aluminum in order to
eliminate oxygen and carbon reaction during solidification.
a) rimmed steel b) stainless steel c) killed steel d) monel
31. Device that prevents entrance of moisture and other fluids and permits pressure differential between
the exterior and the interior.
a) gasket b) washer c) seal d) spacer

32. Device used to guard surfaces against marring:

a) locker b) bearing c) washer d) oil seal

33. When the hole is smaller than the shaft, it will take force to put the parts together, the allowance is said
to be negative and is called:
a) interference b) clearance c) allowance d) toghness

34. The stress is an elastic material is:

a) inversely proportional to the yield strength of the material
b) inversely proportional to the force acting
c) proportional to the displacement of the material acted upon by the force
d) proportional to the length of the material subject to the force

35. A micrometer measured by:

a) 108 b) root means squared
c) millions of an inch d) thousand of inch

36. An impact test is used to test a metal for:

a) toughness b) strength c) ductility d) hardness

37. A partial bearing is one in which:

a) the bearing is supplied with less oil than full bearing
b) the bearing encloses less than 360 deg of the journal
c) the bearing is slightly loaded
d) the bearing is supplied with oil intermittently

38. For a completely corrosion resistant stainless steel, what minimum percentage of chromium in the
alloy is required?
a) 3% b) 7% c) 11% d) 15%

39. The amount by which the width of a tooth space exceeds the thickness of an engaging tooth on the
pitch circles of a gear:
a) clearance b) tip relief
c) backslash d) chordal thickness

40. Steels containing large amounts of mild nickel and chromium:

a) carbon steel b) stainless steel c) alloy steel d) cast steel

41. The product of the mass and the linear velocity of a body:
a) anguar impulse b) angular momentum
c) linear impulse d) linear momentum

42. When a steel is described as SAE 1320:

a) it is plain carbon steel
b) it is nickel chromium steel
c) it contains 18 to 20% carbon
d) it contains 0.18 to 0.23% carbon

43. Which is not a heat treatment process?

a) sintering b) annealing c) hardening d) tempering
44. The term used in referring to the continuous increase in the strain, or deformation, of any material
subjected to stress.
a) elasticity b) tolerance
c) creep d) all of the above

45. Poison’s ratio is the ratio of the:

a) unit lateral deformation to the unit longitudinal deformation
b) unit stress to unit strain
c) elastic limit to proportional limit
d) shear strain to compressive strain

46. At relatively high temperatures and low rates of strains, structures will perform better if the material is:
a) fine-grained b) course grained
c) their behaviour is independent of grain d) all of the above

47. The most important factor in determining high-temperature behaviour of alloy is:
a) dispersion b) ionization c) crystallization d) composition

48. Modulus rigidity of a steel member is:

a) function and width
b) equal to the modulus of elasticity divided by one plus Poissons’s ratio
c) defined as the unit shear stress divided by the unit shear deformation
d) defined as the length divided by the moment of inertia

49. Arc of the pitch circle through which a tooth travels from the point of contact with the mating tooth to
the pitch point of a gear:
a) arc of access b) arc of action
c) arc of relief d) arc of approach

50. Which of the following steel contains chromium?

a) SAE 2340 b) SAE 4230 c) SAE 1230 d) SAE 5240