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The property of a material by virtue of which it can be beaten or rolled into plates is called

A. Malleability

B. Ductility

C. Plasticity

D. Elasticity

Correct Answer :

A. Malleability


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The natural solid fuel is

A. Wood

B. Coke

C. Anthracite coal

D. Pulverised coal

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The mass of carbon per kg of flue gas is given by

A. (11/3) CO2 + (3/7) CO

B. (3/7) CO2 + (11/3) CO

C. (7/3) CO2 + (3/11) CO

D. (3/11) CO2 + (7/3) CO

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A vertical column has two moments of inertia (i.e. Ixx and Iyy ). The column will tend to buckle in the direction of the

A. Axis of load

B. Perpendicular to the axis of load

C. Maximum moment of inertia

D. Minimum moment of inertia

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The distance between the centres of the rivets in adjacent rows of zigzag riveted joint is known as

A. Pitch

B. Back pitch

C. Diagonal pitch

D. Diametric pitch

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When a system changes its state from one equilibrium state to another equilibrium state, then the path of successive states through which the system has passed, is known as

A. Thermodynamic law

B. Thermodynamic process

C. Thermodynamic cycle

D. None of these

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A thin cylindrical shell of diameter (D) and thickness (t) is subjected to an internal pressure (p). The ratio of longitudinal strain to volumetric strain is

A. (m - 1)/ (2m - 1)

B. (2m - 1)/ (m - 1)

C. (m - 2)/ (3m - 4)

D. (m - 2)/ (5m - 4)

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The gas constant (R) is equal to the

A. Sum of two specific heats

B. Difference of two specific heats

C. Product of two specific heats

D. Ratio of two specific heats

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When a beam is subjected to a bending moment, the strain in a layer is __________ the distance from the neutral axis.

A. Equal to

B. Directly proportional to

C. Inversely proportional to

D. Independent of

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The tensile strength of the welded joint for double fillet is (where s = Leg or size of the weld, l = Length of weld, and σt = Allowable tensile stress for weld metal)

A. 0.5 s.l.σt

B. s.l.σt

C. √2 s.l.σt

D. 2.s.l.σt

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The ratio of root mean square velocity to average velocity of gas molecules at a particular temperature is

A. 0.086

B. 1.086

C. 1.086

D. 4.086

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In the below figure, curve D represents_________.

A. Mild steel

B. Cast iron

C. Concrete

D. Bone of these

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The stress necessary to initiate yielding is

A. Considerably greater than that necessary to continue it

B. Considerably lesser than that necessary to continue it

C. Greater than that necessary to stop it

D. Lesser than that necessary to stop it

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The amount of heat generated per kg of fuel is known as

A. Calorific value

B. Heat energy

C. Lower calorific value

D. Higher calorific value

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When the gas is heated at constant volume, the heat supplied

A. Increases the internal energy of the gas and increases the temperature of the gas

B. Does some external work during expansion

C. Both (A) and (B)

D. None of these

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Otto cycle is also known as

A. Constant pressure cycle

B. Constant volume cycle

C. Constant temperature cycle

D. Constant temperature and pressure cycle

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The throttling process is __________ process.

A. Reversible

B. Irreversible

C. Reversible or irreversible

D. None of these

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The __________ is obtained when carbonisation of coal is carried out at 500° to 700° C.

A. Soft coal

B. Hard coal

C. Pulverised coal

D. Bituminous coal

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The work ratio of a gas turbine plant is given by

A. (Net work output)/(Workdone by the turbine)

B. (Net work output)/(Heat supplied)

C. (Actual temperature drop)/(Isentropic temperature drop)

D. (Isentropic increase in temperature)/(Actual increase in temperature)

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The value of cp/cv for air is

A. 1

B. 1.4

C. 1.45

D. 2.3

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Which of the following is the correct statement of the second law of thermodynamics?

A. It is impossible to construct an engine working on a cyclic process, whose sole purpose is to convert heat energy into work.

B. It is impossible to transfer heat from a body at a lower temperature to a higher temperature, without the aid of an external source.

C. There is a definite amount of mechanical energy, which can be obtained from a given quantity of heat energy.

D. All of the above

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A process, in which the temperature of the working substance remains constant during its expansion or compression, is called

A. Isothermal process

B. Hyperbolic process

C. Adiabatic process

D. Polytropic process

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Steam coal is a

A. Pulverised coal

B. Brown coal

C. Coking bituminous coal

D. Non-coking bituminous coal

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If the rivets in adjacent rows are staggered and the outermost row has only one rivets, the arrangement of the rivets is called

A. Chain riveting

B. Zigzag riveting

C. Diamond riveting

D. Crisscross riveting

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When two bodies are in thermal equilibrium with a third body, they are also in thermal equilibrium with each other. This statement is called

A. Zeroth law of thermodynamics

B. First law of thermodynamics

C. Second law of thermodynamics

D. Kelvin Planck's law

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A body is subjected to a direct tensile stress of 300 MPa in one plane accompanied by a simple shear stress of 200 MPa. The maximum shear stress will be

A. -100 MPa

B. 250 MPa

C. 300 MPa

D. 400 MPa

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When a body is subjected to three mutually perpendicular stresses, of equal intensity, the ratio of direct stress to the corresponding volumetric strain is known as

A. Young's modulus

B. Modulus of rigidity

C. Bulk modulus

D. Poisson's ratio

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In compression test, the fracture in cast iron specimen would occur along

A. The axis of load

B. An oblique plane

C. At right angles to the axis of specimen

D. Would not occur

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The sum of internal energy (U) and the product of pressure and volume (p.v) is known as

A. Workdone

B. Entropy

C. Enthalpy

D. None of these

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The mass of flue gas per kg of fuel is the ratio of the

A. Mass of oxygen in 1 kg of flue gas to the mass of oxygen in 1 kg of fuel

B. Mass of oxygen in 1 kg of fuel to the mass of oxygen in 1 kg of flue gas

C. Mass of carbon in 1 kg of flue gas to the mass of carbon in 1 kg of fuel

D. Mass of carbon in 1 kg of fuel to the mass of carbon in 1 kg of flue gas

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The maximum stress produced in a bar of tapering section is at

A. Smaller end

B. Larger end

C. Middle

D. Anywhere