Engineering Material Science 1
What physical property of a material that refers to the rate of heat flow per unit time in a homogenous material under steady-state conditions per unit are, per unit temperature gradient in a direction perpendicular to area?
Thermal expansion
Thermal conductivity
Heat distortion temperature
Water absorption
What is a coal that has been previously burned in an oxygen-poor environment?
Tuyere
Coke
Diamond
Hematite
What type of steel has 0.8% carbon and 100% pearlite?
Austenite
Eutectoid
Hyper-eutectoid
Stainless steel
What is the purpose of molybdenum in steel alloying?
To increase brittleness
To increase dynamic and high-temperature strength and hardness.
To reduce brittleness, combine with sulfur
To increase corrosion and resistance
What types of materials behave like iron when placed in a magnetic field?
Crystals
Amorphous materials
Ferromagnetic materials
Metalloids
What field of study encompasses the procurement and production of metals?
Metallurgy
Geology
Material Science
Metalgraphy
What is the most common alloying ingredient in copper?
Brass
Zinc
Nickle
Aluminum
What is the resistance of a material to plastic deformation?
Hardness
Stiffness
Creepage
Rigidity
What group of steels are molybdenum high-speed steels?
Group A
Group D
Group M
Group H
What is the common reinforcement for polymer composites?
Boron
Ceramic
Graphite
Glass fiber
Which of the following statements is NOT true?
About 10% of the earth’s crust is iron
Pure iron does not have significant industrial use because it is too weak and soft.
Steel is an alloy of carbon and iron with limits on the amount of carbon (less than 2%)
Steel is made by reducing oxide ore of iron by thermochemical reactions in a blast furnace or direct reductions vessel.
What physical property of a material refers to the amount of weight gain (%) experienced in a polymer after immersion in water for a specified length of time under a controlled environment?
Dielectric strength
Electric resistivity
Water absorption
Thermal conductivity
What is a combination of two or more materials that has properties that the components materials do not have by themselves?
Compound
Composite
Mixture
Matrix
Iron is said to be abundant in nature. About how many percent of the earth’s crust is iron?
10%
5%
20%
8%
By definition, a rubber is a substance that has at least _____ elongation in tensile test and is capable of returning rapidly and forcibly to its original dimensions when load is removed.
100%
150%
200%
250%
What mechanical property of a material refers to the resistance to plastic deformation?
Rigidity
Plasticity
Ductility
Hardness
What refers to the tendency for polymers and molecular materials to from with an ordered, spatial, three-dimensional arrangement of monomer molecules?
Stereo specificity
Conductivity
Retentivity
Spatial configuration
What is the ratio of the maximum load in a tension test to the original cross-sectional area of the test bar?
Tensile strength
Yield strength
Shear strength
Flexural Strength
The engineering materials known as “plastics” are more correctly called ____________.
Polyvinyl chloride
Polymers
Polyethylene
Mers
What is prefix in steel identification means it is made in an electric furnace?
E
H
X
B
What refers to the tin mill steel, without a coating?
White plate
Tin Steel free
Black plate
Dechromate tin
What is a reference sheet for the elements that can be used to form engineering materials?
Periodic Table
Truth Table
Structure of Materials
Building blocks of Materials
What combination of elements has high electrical resistance, high corrosion resistance, and high strength at red hear temperatures, making it useful in resistance heating?
Aluminum bronze
Nichrome
Hastelloy
Alnico
What type of steel has carbon as its principal hardening agent?
Alloy steel
Stainless steel
Galvanized steel
Carbon steel
The use of acids to remove oxides and scale on hot-worked steels is known as_______.
Pickling
Tempering
Pickling
Machining
What is a polymer production process that involves forming a polymer chain containing two different monuments?
Copolymerization
Blending
Alloying
Cross-linking
What is the maximum stress below which a material can theoretically endure an infinite number of stress cycles?
Endurance state
Endurance test
Endurance limit
Endurance strength
Which of the following is a natural magnet?
Steel
Magnesia
Lodestone
Soft iron
What is a method of forming polymer sheets or films into three-dimensional shapes in which the sheet is clamped on the edge, heated until it softens and sags, drawn in contact with the mold by vacuum, and cooled while still in contact with the mold?
Calendaring
Blow molding
Thermoforming
Solid phase forming
What is the defined by ASTM as a material that contains as an essential ingredient an organic substance of large molecular weight, is solid in its finished state, and some stage in its manufactured or in its processing into finished articles, can be shaped by flow?
Metal
Metalloid
Plastic
Ceramic
What is a combination of one or more metals with a nonmetallic element?
Metalloids
Matrix Composite
Inert
Ceramic
What ASTM test for tension is designated for plastics?
A370
D638
E292
C674
What is the process of heating a hardened steel to any temperature below the lower critical temperature, followed by any desired rate of cooling?
Normalizing
Spheroidizing
Carburizing
Tempering
Steels that are used for axles, gears, and similar parts requiring medium to high and strength are known as?
Medium-carbon steel
Low-carbon steel
Very high-carbon
High-carbon steel
In what special refining process of steel where molten metal is poured down a tundish (chute) into an ingot mold?
Electroslag refining
Vacuum are remelting
Vacuum induction melting
Electron beam refining
What physical property of a material refers to the temperature at which a polymer under a specified load shows a specified amount of deflection?
Curie temperature
Specific heat
Heat distortion temperature
Thermal conductivity
What parameter is defined as the temperature at which the toughness of the material drops below some predetermined value, usually 15ft-lb?
Nil ductility temperature
Curie temperature
Thermal conductivity
Heat distortion temperature
What impurity in steel can cause “red shortness”, which means the steel becomes unworkable at high temperature?
Sulfur
Silicon
Manganese
Phosphorus
What is defined as an alloy of iron and carbon, with the carbon being restricted within certain concentration limits?
Steel
Wrought Iron
Cast Iron
Tendons
What is defined as an intimate mechanical mixture of two or more phases having a definite composition and a definite temperature of transformation within the solid state?
Pearlite
Eutectoid
Austernite
Delta solid solution
Which of the following cast irons is heat-treated for ductility?
Gray iron
Malleable iron
White iron
Ductile iron
What dimensional property of a material refers to the deviation from edge straightness?
Lay
Camber
Waviness
Out of flat
What are the major classes of engineering materials?
Metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors and composites
Polymers, metals and composites
Metals, ceramics and semiconductors
Metals, ceramics, polymers and semiconductors
What ASTM test for shear strength is designated for plastics?
D732
D790
D638
D695
What is a method of casehardening involving diffusion in which the steel to be casehardened is machined, heat-treated, placed in an air-tight box and heated to about 1000oF?
Annealing
Normalizing
Carburizing
Nitriding
What do you call earth and stone missed with the iron oxides?
Gangue
Magnetite
Ore
Hematite
What is a substance that attracts piece of iron?
Conductor
Magnet
Semiconductor
Semimetal
What is the most undesirable of all the elements commonly found in steels?
Phosphorus
Manganese
Silicon
Sulfur
What is the generic name of class of polymer which is commercially known as “nylon”?
Polyacetals
Polyamide
Cellulose
Polyester
What dimensional property of a material refers to a wavelike variation from a perfect surface, generally much wider in spacing and higher in amplitude than surface roughness?
Lay
Waviness
Surface finish
Out of flat
What is the lowest-temperature diffusion-hardening process and does not require a quench?
Carburizing
Nitriding
Tempering
Heat-treating
What refers to the stress at which a material exhibits a specified deviation from proportionality of stress and strain?
Tensile strength
Yield strength
Shear strength
Flexural strength
What prefix in steel identification means composition varies from normal limits?
X
E
H
B
What letter suffix steel identification means that it is steel with boron as an alloying element?
XxBxx
XxLxx
XxHxx
XxKxx
What physical property of a material refers to the highest potential difference (voltage) that an insulting material of given thickness can withstand for a specified time without occurrence of electrical breakdown through its bulk?
Thermal expansion
Conductivity
Dielectric strength
Electrical resistivity
Which of the following fluids conducts electricity?
Electrolyte
Water
Solution
Acid
The following statements are true except one. Which one?
Carburizing does not harden a steel.
Flame and induction hardening require the use of hardenable steels.
Quench-hardened steel does not require tempering to prevent brittleness.
Induction hardening is usually most efficient on small parts.
What is the most popular steel refining process or technique which involves casting of steel from the BOF or electric furnace into cylindrical ingots?
Vacuum are remelting (VAR)
Vacuum induction melting (VIM)
Electron beam refining
Electroslag refining
What group of steel are water-hardened tool steels?
Group S
Group W
Group O
Group T
What do you call a polymer without additives and without blending with another polymer?
Copolymer
Polyethylene
Ethenic polymer
Homo polymer
What is the effect of silicon in cast iron?
Increase fluidity and lowers melting temperature.
Reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below 0.5% and increase the hardness above 0.5%
Softens iron and increase ductility below 3.25% hardens iron above 3.25% and increase acid and corrosion resistance above 13%
Deoxidizes molten cast iron
What is the effect of aluminum in cast iron?
To deoxidize molten cast iron
To increase hardness above 0.5%
To reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below 0.5%
To affect machinability, ductility, and shrinkage depending on form
What is the advantage of quench hardening?
Improved strength
Hardness
Wear characteristics
All of the choices
What is the effect if manganese in cast iron?
To affect the machinability, ductility and shrinkage depending on form
To reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below 0.5% and increase hardness above 0.5%
To dioxide molten cast iron
To increase fluidity and lowers melting temperature
What ASTM test for compression is designated for plastic?
D638
D695
C. D790
D732
What is a process of forming continuous shapes by forcing a molten polymer through a metal die?
Calendaring
Thermoforming
Lithugraphy
Extrusion
What physical property of a material refers to the ratio of the amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance 1 degree to the heat required to raise the same mass of water to 1 degree.
Specific heat
Latent heat
Heat of fusion
Heat of fission
Low-quality steels with an M suffix on the designation intended for non-structural application is classified as ____________.
Merchant quality
Commercial quality
Drawing quality
Special quality
What is a process of producing a hard surface in a steel having a sufficiently high carbon content to respond to hardening by a rapid cooling of the surface?
Cyaniding
Nitriding
Flame hardening
Induction hardening
What is a measure of rigidity?
Stiffness
Hardness
Strength
Modulus of elasticity
Which cast iron is hard and wear resistant?
Gray iron
Ductile iron
White iron
Malleable iron
What chemical property of a material which refers to its ability to resist deterioration by chemical or electrochemical reactions with environment?
Stereo specificity
Corrosion resistance
Conductivity
Electrical resistance
What do you call metals reinforced by ceramics or other materials, usually in fiber form?
Metalloids
Matrix alloys
Metal lattices
Metal Matrix composites
Some polymetric materials such as epoxies are formed by strong primary chemical bonds called ________.
Metallic bond
Van der Waals bond
Cross linking
Covalent bond
What materials has permiabilities slightly greater than of free space?
Paramagnetic materials
Non-magnetic materials
Ferromagnetic materials
Diamagnetic materials
What refers to the casehardening process by which the carbon content of the steel ear the surface of a part is increased?
Carburizing
Annealing
Normalizing
Martempering
What is the amount of energy required to fracture a given volume of material?
Impact strength
Endurance limit
Creep strength
Stress rupture strength
What is obtained by repeatedly loading a specimen at given stress levels until it fails?
Creep
Endurance limit or fatigue strength of material
Elastic limit
All of the choices
In tensile testing, the increase in the gage length measured after the specimen fractures, within the gage length is called _______.
Percent elongation
Creep
Elasticity
Elongation
Which of the materials have very high permiabilities?
Diamagnetic materials
Paramagnetic materials
Ferromagnetic materials
Non-magnetic materials
What term is used to describe a polymer that has rubberlike properties?
Vulcanizer
Elasticmer
Polychloroprene
Elastomer
Which of the following cast irons is a high-carbon-silicon alloy?
Malleable iron
Gray iron
White iron
Alloy iron
What typical penetrator is used in Brinell hardness test?
10 mm ball
1.6 mm diameter ball
120° diamond (brale)
20° needle
What is the ASTM tension testing designation for standard methods for steel products?
A370
E345
E8
C674
Polymer comes from Greek words “poly” which means “many” and “meros” which means __________.
Metal
Material
Part
Plastic
Galvanized steel are steel products coated with _________.
Carbon
Sulfur
Zinc
Nickel
Which of the following materials has permeability slightly less than that of free space?
Paramagnetic materials
Non-magnetic materials
Ferromagnetic materials
Diamagnetic materials
What mechanical property of a material which is a time-dependent permanent strain under stress?
Elongation
Elasticity
Creep
Rupture
A large molecule with two alternating mers is called as _______.
Monomer
Elastomer
Mers
Copolymer or interpolymer
Wood is composed of chains of cellulose molecules bonded together by another natural polymer called ________.
Plastic
Lignin
Mer
Additive
Which of he following is a requirement for hardening a steel?
Heating to the proper temperature
Adequate quench
Sufficient carbon content
All of the choices
Which of the following cast irons is a high-carbon, iron-carbon-silicon alloy?
Deorizers
Deoxidizers
Deterrent
Deoxifiers
What is considered as the general purpose oldest type and widely used cast iron?
Gray iron
Ductile iron
Alloy iron
Malleable iron
What physical property of a material that refers to the temperature at which ferromagnetic materials can no longer be magnetized by outside forces?
Melting point
Thermal conductivity
Thermal expansion
Curie point
What physical property of a material that refers to the point at which a material liquefies on heating or solidifies on cooling?
Melting point
Curie point
Refractive index
Specific heat
What are considered as the “building blocks” for engineering materials?
Atoms
Elements
Matters
Compounds
The greatest stress which a material is capable of withstanding without a deviation from acceptable of stress to strain is called _______.
Elongation
Proportional limit
Yield point
Elastic limit
What mechanical property of a material refers to the nominal stress at fracture in a tension test at constant load and constant temperature?
Creep strength
Stress rapture strength
Compressive yield strength
Hardness
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