Machine Design Examination 16
Machine Design Examination 16
Chapter 16
1. It is t6h circle tangent to the addendum of the meshing gears.
A. Base circle B. pitch circle C. addendum circle D. clearance circle
2. the distance from a point on one gear to the corresponding point measured along the base circle.
A. Normal pitch B. circular pitch C. axial pitch D. diametral pitch
3. A line passing through the pitch point that is tangent to both base circles of a gear is:
A. Pressure line B. perpendicular line C. tangent line D. center line
4. Which of the ff. is the contact ratio for a good gear design?
A. 1.5:1 B. 1:1.3 C. 1:3 D. 1.2:2
5. In pressure vessels, which of the ff. resists internal pressure through tension?
A. Shell-type element C. plane-type element
B. Cam-type element D. spherical –type element
6. It is the study of the body’s motion independent of the forces on the body.
A. Kinetics B. dynamics C. kinematics D. mechanics
7. What is the reciprocal of the velocity ratio?
A. Train value B. ratio factor C. modular factor D. none of these
8. It is the type of bolt finished all over and has usual having coarse threads.
A. Coupling bolt B. stud bolt C. machine bolt D. automobile bolt
9. It is a type of bolt distinguished by a short portion of the shank underneath the head being square or finned or ribbed.
A. Coupling bolt B. stud bolt c. machine bolt D. carriage bolt
10. It is a type of bolt threaded on both ends and can be used where through bolt impossible.
A. Coupling bolt B. carriage bolt C. stud bolt D. machine bolt
11. Which of the ff. is not a type of bolt.
A. Stud bolt B. steel bolt C. machine bolt D. coupling bolt
12. It is locking device that is used to maintain pressure between threads of the bolt and nut.
A. Gasket B. lock washer C. lock nuts D. filler
13. What is the large wood screw used to fasten machinery and equipment.
A. Lag screw` B. loss screw C. wood screw D. cross screw
14. What is the minimum length of contact in a tapped hole cast iron?
A. 1.7 D B. 1.5 D C. 1.2 D D. 2.1 D
15. It is the ratio of the mean diameter of coil over the coil diameters.
A. Wahi factor B. spring index C. coil ratio D. lead scale
16. What is the overall length of the spring when it is compressed until all adjacent coil touched?
A. Free length B. solid length C. compressed length D. expansion length
17. It is the length of a coil spring under no load.
A. Compressed length B. free length C. solid height D. none of these
18. In general, the steel springs are made of relatively of relative high carbon steel usually:
A. 5 % B. less 0.5 % C. moer than 0.5 % D. 7.5 %
19. It is a low cost spring material, suitable where service is not severe and dimensional precision is not needed
A. Helical spring wire C. hard drawn wire
B. Stainless steel D. copper
20. What is the other name for kennedy key?
A. Tangential key B. woodruff key C. saddle key D. rollpin
21. What type of fits used for involute spline?
A. Close it B. press it C. sliding it D. all of these
22. It is used for permanent fits and similar to involute splines except that the pressure angle is 14.5°
A. Separation load B. spline shaft C. stub serration D. involute serrations
23. It is used a coupling, or in addition to another couplings where, in case of overload, there is danger of injury to
machine or to material in process.
A. Shear pin B. flange coupling C. involute serrations D. king pin
24. What is the maximum shaft angle for a single Hooke’s coupling?
A. 10° B. 17° C. 15° D. 20°
25. What are two principal parts of a journal Bearing?
A. Bearing and journal C. shaft and babbit
B. Clearance and fitted D. shaft and cylinder
26. When the line of action of the load, bisects the arc of partial bearing, the bearing is said to be;
A. Eccentrically loaded B. fully loaded C. centrically loaded D. partially loaded
27. What is the difference in radii of the bearing and journal?
A. Even clearance B. clearance ratio C. odd clearance D. radial clearance
28. When radii of both the bearing and the journal are the same, then the bearing is said to be:
A. Fitted bearing B. clearance bearing C. full bearing D. ambiguous bearing
29. What is the line that passes through the centers of the bearing and the journals.
A. Line of action B. line of centersC. line of symmetry D. tangent line
30. Which of the ff. is considered advantageous for bearing materials?
A. Conformability B. compatibility C. embeddability D. all of these
31. Which of the following ratio of moment and stress?
A. Strain B. section modulus C. contraction D. passion ratio
32. What is the flexural stress when of a sysmmetrically cross-section beam when the vertical shear is maximum.
A. Infinity B. zero C. maximum D. minimum
33. The riveted joints in ASME Code has adesign surface compressive stress ____higher than desing tensile stress.
A. 70 % B. 60 % C. 35% D. 50 %
34. What is the ratio of the minimum strength of joint to the strength of solid joint in the pressure vessel?
A. Efficiency B. relative strength C. performance factor D. joint efficiency
35. What is the usual factor safety for a pressure vessel?
A. 4 B. 1.5 C. 3 D. 5
36. It is the permissible variation of the size.
A. Tolerance B. limits C. fits D. none of these
37. Considering that there is no fit, what is the permissible liberal tolerance in machine work?
A. ± 0.010 B. ± 0.090 C. ± 0.020 D. ± 0.050
38. Which of the following is a tolerance where the size of part maybe larger only, than the given dimension.
A. Unilateral B. lateral C. bilateral D. none of these
39. A tolerance where the size of a part is permitted to be either larger or smaller only, than the given dimension.
A. Unilateral B. lateral `C. bilateral D. none of thse
40. What type of formula that is best applied to a very slender column?
A. Column formula C. slenderness formula
B. Moment formula D. Euler formula
41. If two principal stresses zero, the state of stress is:
A. Biaxial B. mono-axial C.uniaxial D. triaxial
42. What do you call the system that have finite values of principal stresses?
A. Biaxial B. mono-axial C.uniaxial D. triaxial
43. A screw that requires positive torque to lower the load or to loosen the screw if ti has been turned tight against a
resistance.
A. Self locking screw C. self screw
B. Lock screw D. power screw
44. What is the rotating member used in transmitting power/
A. Shaft B. counter shaft C. axle D. washer
45. For machinery shafts, the permissible deflection is approximately:
A. 0.02 in./ft B. 0.03in. in./ft C. 0.01 in./ft D. 0.05 in./ft
46. For shafts, the shear due to bending is a maximum at the neutral plane where the normal stress is;
A. Minimum B. constant C. maximum also D. zero
47. The minimum value of numerical combined shock and fatigue factor to be applied in every case to the computed
bending moment of the shafts is:
A. 2.0 B. 1.75 C. 1.5 D. 1.3
48. The helical and herringbone gear teeth cut after heat treatment should have a hardness in the range of 210/300BHN.
The pinion gear teeth hardness on the other hand, ideally/normally should be at ____BHN.
A. 250/320 B. 350/380 C. 400 D. 340/350
49. As a rule center distance between sprocket should not be less than ____times the diameter of the bigger sprocket
and not less than 30 times the pitch nor more than
A. 1.5 B. 2 C. 2.5 D. 3
50. A single force, which produces same effect upon a mass as two or several forces acting together, is called:
A. Components B. composition of forces C. resolution of forces D. resultant
51. All forces in the same plane are called:
A. Coplanar B. couple C. parallel D. resulutant
52. Which of the ff. laws which states that he force of attraction between two bodies is directly proportional to the
product of their masses and inversely proportional to the product of their masses and inversely proportional to the
distance square between their centers.
A. Hooke’s law B. law of gravitation C. law of motion D. Newton’s law
53. Which of the ff. is the approximate density of the leather belt?
A. 0.035lb/in.³ B. 0.0135lb/in.³ C. 0.025 lb/in.³ D. 0.465 lb/in.³
54. Which of the ff. is the approximate density of a fat rubber belt?
A. 0.055lb/in.³ B. 0.0135 lb/in.³ C. 0.045 lb/in.³ D. 0.0465 lb/in.³
55. A tooth wheel whose tooth elements are straight and parallel to the shaft axis or used to transmit motion and power
between parallel shafts.
A. Helical gear B. spur gear C. worm gear D. bevel gear
56. The breaking strength of oak-tanned beltings varies from 3 to more than:
A. 5 ksi B. 6 ksi C. 7 ksi D. 9 ksi
57. Experience suggests that the most economical designs are obtained for a belt speed of:
A. 6000 to 7500 fpm B. 3000 to 5000 fpm C. 3500 to 4700 fpm D. 5000 to 1000 fpm
58. The tension in the belt due to centrifugal force increasing rapidly above about:
A. 2500fpm B. 3000fpm C. 3500fpm D. 4000fpm
59. For leather belts, recommended speed is:
A. 6000 to 7000fpm B. 5000 to 6000fpm C. 7000 to 8000fpm D. 4500 to 5600fpm
60. The recommended initial tension of the belt is:
A. 75 lb/in of width B. 73 lb/in of width C. 71 lb/in of width D. 80 lb/in of width
61. Two shafts at right angles to each other may be connected by what arrangement?
A. Half turn B. quarter turn C. ¾ turn D. one turn
62. The minimum number of teeth on a smaller sprocket for low speed is:
A. 12 B. 21 C. 17 D. 14
63. What is the hard drawn (80 % reduction)spring wiremade of high carbon steel?
A. Oil tempered wire C. tension wire
B. Music wire D. chromium wire
64. Which of the ff. wires with good quality and is used for impact loading:
A. Hard-drawn wire C. helical spring wire
B. Song wire D. chromium-silicon wire
65. When heat-treated wire is coil cold, it should be stress and after cooling it is heated at some:
A. 400°F B. 600°F C. 700°F D. 500°F
66. Which of the ff. is not a function of spring?
A. Absorbs energy C. measure weight
B. Source of potential energy D. measure thickness
67. Which of the ff. is the type of spring made in the form of dished washer?
A. Air spring B. bellevile spring C. volute spring D. motor spring
68. What is the type of failure due to stability?
A. Buckling B. slenderness ratio C. stability D. Euler’s failure
69. Which of the following is the basis for ASA fits?
A. Basic number system C. basic size system
B. Basic hole system D. unit system
70. When the hole is smaller than the shaft, it will take force or pressure to put the cold parts together. In such case the
allowance is negative. Which of the ff. terms is the appropriate for such allowance?
A. Negative fits of metals C. positive fits of the shaft
B. Interference of metal D. intangible fit
71. What is the direction of the predominant surface pattern?
A. Smoothness B. waviness C. lay D. roughness
72. It is the irregularities of departures from the nominal surface of the greater spacing than roughness?
A. Smoothness B. waviness C. lay D. roughness
73. It is the surface finish of micrometer in ms.
A. 1 B. 2 C. 3 D. 4
74. Which of the ff. gears has the simplest type of teeth?
A. Helical gearsB. spur gears C. bevel gears D. worm gears
75. In gears, an imaginary circle on which the lever arm is based in:
A. Base circle B. pitch circle C. addendum circle D. clearance circle
76. What is the other name given to short shafts on machines?
A. Spindles B. head shafts C. core shafts D. all of these
77. The other name given to a line shaft is:
A. Countershaft B. main shaft C. long shaft D. head shaft
78. The speed at which the center of mass will be equal the deflecting force on the shaft; the shaft with its attached
bodies will then vibrate violently, since the centrifugal force changes its direction as the shaft turns in:
A. Nominal speed B. critical speed C. relative speed D. mean speed
79. An old rule of thumb for transmission shafting is that the deflection should not exceed ____ of length between
supports.
A. 0.01 in. per foot B. 0.08 in. per foot C. 0.02 in per foot D. 0.05 in per foot
80. For transmission shaft allowable deflection is 1 degree in a length of _____ diameters.
A. 20 B. 25 C. 30 D. 40
81. What is the limiting torsional deflection for machinery shafts , if the criteria of limiting torsional deflection vary from
0.08°per foot of length.
A. 1° B. 2.5° C. 2° D. 3.5°
82. Bevel gears of sizes 5 in. to 15 in. should not be lift or dpress more than ____, as Gleason statement.
A. 0.004 B. 0.003 C. 0.002 D. 0.001
83. What type of key that allows the hub to move along shaft prevents the rotation of the shaft?
A. Woodruff key B. feather key C. Gibbs key D. Square key
84. A conclusion repeatedly verified by experiment is that the smoother surface:
A. Has the greater load capacity of the bearing C. Has constant load
B. Has the lesser capacity of the bearing D. None of these
85. Which of the ff. considers the 200 series of bearings?
A. Heavy B. medium C. light D. all of these
86. Which of the ff. considers the 300 series of bearing?
A. Medium B. heavy C. light D. all of these
87. A type of roller bearing in which the balls are assembled by eccentric displacement of the inner ring.
A. Shallow groove ball bearing C. self aligning ball bearing
B. Filling-slot ball bearing D. deep-grove bearing
88. Which of the ff. is not a type of ball bearing
A. Shallow groove ball bearing C. self aligning ball bearing
B. Filling-slot ball bearing D. deep-grove bearing
89. Any object thrown upward will return to earth with magnitude of terminal velocity equal to
A. 50% of the initial velocity C. about 90%of the initial velocity
B. 80% of the initial velocity D. the initial velocity
90. Flat belt that is too tight will induce strain on the bearing and belt ______.
A. Life will be shortened C. suffer/shutter
B. Result to uneconomical operation D. will be sheared/cut
91. The resulting cross-sectional area of the tensile test specimen original area is called
A. Charpy test B. % elongation C. impact test D. izod test
92. SAE 51XXX belongs to the _____steel family.
A. Carbon B. chromium C. manganese D. nickel
93. In itself. it is lubricant and usually one of the important elements in casting non-ferrous metals like bronze,for
example
A. Antimony B. Babbitt C. lead D. zinc
94. Gasket material, which should avoid hot liquid/steam applications.
A. Asbestos fiber B. nylon fiber C. rubberized D. wool
95. Gasket material properties all over/ direction and at any particular point in a structural member is:
A. Heterogeneous B. homogenous C. isentropic D. isotropic
96. The minimum number of teeth on a smaller sprocket for a moderate speed is :
A. 12 B. 21 C. 17 D. 14
97. The minimum number of teeth on a smaller sprocket for a high speed is:
A. 21 B. 12 C. 24 D. 14
98. The resultant of a pair of equal forces but opposite in direction is called:
A. Concurrent B. couple C. non-concurrent D. resultant
99. For ordinary steel, the modulus of elasticity usually falls between ____ million pounds.
A. 20 to 31 B. 35 to 45 C. 20 to 35 D. 25 to 30
100. The modulus of elasticity for metal in compression is usually taken as that in:
A. Tension B. bearing C. yield D. ultimate