1. What are considered as the “building blocks” for engineering 14.
14. What physical property of a material refers to the highest
materials? potential difference (voltage) that an insulting material of given A. Atoms B. Elements thickness can withstand for a specified time without occurrence of C. Matters D. Compounds electrical breakdown through its bulk? 2. What are the major classes of engineering materials? A. Thermal expansion B. Conductivity A. Metals, ceramics and semiconductors C. Dielectric strength D. Electrical resistivity B. Polymers, metals and composites 15. What physical property of a material refers to the ratio of the C. Metals, ceramics, polymers and semiconductors amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of D. Metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors and a substance 1 degree to the heat required to raise the same mass composites of water to 1 degree. 3. What types of materials behave like iron when placed in a A. Specific heat B. Latent heat magnetic field? C. Heat of fusion D. Heat of fission A. Crystals 16. What physical property of a material refers to the temperature B. Amorphous materials at which a polymer under a specified load shows a specified C. Ferromagnetic materials amount of deflection? D. Metalloids A. Curie temperature 4. What do you call metals reinforced by ceramics or other B. Specific heat materials, usually in fiber form? C. Heat distortion temperature A. Metalloids D. Thermal conductivity B. Matrix alloys 17. What mechanical property of a material refers to the nominal stress at fracture in a tension test at constant load and constant C. Metal lattices temperature? D. Metal Matrix composites A. Creep strength 5. What is a combination of one or more metals with a nonmetallic element? B. Stress rapture strength A. Metalloids B. Matrix Composite C. Compressive yield strength C. Inert D. Ceramic D. Hardness 6. Polymer comes from Greek words “poly” which means “many” 18. What mechanical property of a material refers to the resistance and “meros” which means __________. to plastic deformation? A. metal B. material A. Rigidity B. Plasticity C. part D. plastic C. Ductility D. Hardness 7. The engineering materials known as “plastics” are more correctly called ____________. 19. What parameter is defined as the temperature at which the toughness of the material drops below some predetermined value, A. Polyvinyl chloride B. Polymers usually 15ft-lb? C. Polyethylene D. Mers A. Nil ductility temperature 8. What is a combination of two or more materials that has properties that the components materials do not have by B. Curie temperature themselves? C. Thermal conductivity A. Compound B. Composite D. Heat distortion temperature C. Mixture D. Matrix 20. What is obtained by repeatedly loading a specimen at given 9. What is a reference sheet for the elements that can be used to stress levels until it fails? form engineering materials? A. Elastic limit A. Periodic Table B. Endurance limit or fatigue strength of material B. Truth Table C. Creep C. Building blocks of Materials D. All of the choices D. Structure of Materials 21. What dimensional property of a material refers to the deviation 10. What physical property of a material that refers to the point at from edge straightness? which a material liquefies on heating or solidifies on cooling? A. Lay A. Melting point B. Curie point B. Out of flat C. Refractive index D. Specific heat C. Camber 11. What physical property of a material that refers to the D. Waviness temperature at which ferromagnetic materials can no longer be 22. What dimensional property of a material refers to a wavelike magnetized by outside forces? variation from a perfect surface, generally much wider in spacing A. Melting point B. Thermal conductivity and higher in amplitude than surface roughness? C. Thermal expansion D. Curie point A. Lay 12. What physical property of a material refers to the amount of B. Waviness weight gain (%) experienced in a polymer after immersion in water C. surface finish for a specified length of time under a controlled environment? D. Out of flat A. Dielectric strength B. Electric resistivity 23. Wood is composed of chains of cellulose molecules bonded C. Water absorption D. Thermal conductivity together by another natural polymer called ________. 13. What physical property of a material that refers to the rate of A. plastic heat flow per unit time in a homogenous material under steady- B. lignin state conditions per unit are, per unit temperature gradient in a C. mer direction perpendicular to area? D. additive A. Thermal expansion B. Thermal conductivity C. Heat distortion temperature D. Water absorption 24. What is a polymer production process that involves forming a 34. The greatest stress which a material is capable of withstanding polymer chain containing two different monuments? without a deviation from acceptable of stress to strain is called A. Copolymerization _______. B. Blending A. Elongation C. Alloying B. proportional limit D. Cross-linking C. yield point 25. What is the generic name of class of polymer which is D. elastic limit commercially known as “nylon”? 35. What is the maximum stress below which a material can A. Polyacetals theoretically endure an infinite number of stress cycles? B. Polyamide A. Endurance state C. Cellulose B. Endurance test D. Polyester C. Endurance limit 26. By definition, a rubber is a substance that has at least _____ D. endurance strength elongation in tensile test and is capable of returning rapidly and 36. What is a substance that attracts piece of iron? forcibly to its original dimensions when load is removed. A. Conductor A. 100 % B. Semiconductor B. 150 % C. Magnet C. 200 % D. Semimetal D. 250 % 37. Which of the following is a natural magnet? 27. What is a method of forming polymer sheets or films into three- A. Steel dimensional shapes in which the sheet is clamped on the edge, B. Magnesia heated until it softens and sags, drawn in contact with the mold by C. Lodestone vacuum, and cooled while still in contact with the mold? D. Soft iron A. Calendaring 38. What is the resistance of a material to plastic deformation? B. Blow molding A. Hardness C. Thermoforming B. Stiffness D. Solid phase forming C. Creepage 28. What is a process of forming continuous shapes by forcing a D. Rigidity molten polymer through a metal die? 39. Which of the following materials has permeability slightly less A. Calendaring than that of free space? B. Thermoforming A. Paramagnetic materials C. Lithugraphy B. Non-magnetic materials D. Extrusion C. Ferromagnetic materials 29. What chemical property of a material which refers to its ability D. Diamagnetic materials to resist deterioration by chemical or electrochemical reactions 40. What materials has permiabilities slightly greater than of free with environment? space? A. Stereo specificity A. Paramagnetic materials B. Corrosion resistance B. Non-magnetic materials C. Conductivity C. Ferromagnetic materials D. Electrical resistance D. Diamagnetic materials 30. What refers to the tendency for polymers and molecular 41. Which of the materials have very high permiabilities? materials to from with an ordered, spatial, three-dimensional A. Paramagnetic materials arrangement of monomer molecules? B. Non-magnetic materials A. Stereo specificity C. Ferromagnetic materials B. Conductivity D. Diamagnetic materials C. Retentivity D. Spatial configuration 42. What is the defined by ASTM as a material that contains as an 31. What is the amount of energy required to fracture a given essential ingredient an organic substance of large molecular volume of material? weight, is solid in its finished state, and some stage in its A. Impact strength manufactured or in its processing into finished articles, can be B. Endurance limit shaped by flow? C. Creep strength A. Metal D. Stress rupture strength B. Metalloid 32. What mechanical property of a material which is a time- C. Plastic dependent permanent strain under stress? D. Ceramic A. Elongation 43. Some polymetric materials such as epoxies are formed by B. Elasticity strong primary chemical bonds called ________. C. Creep A. Metallic bond D. Rupture B. Van der Waals bond 33. What refers to the stress at which a material exhibits a C. Cross linking specified deviation from proportionality of stress and strain? D. Covalent bond A. Tensile strength B. shear strength C. Yield strength D. Flexural strength 59. What is the ASTM tension testing designation for standard 44. What do you call a polymer without additives and without methods for steel products? blending with another polymer? A. A370 B. E345 A. Homo polymer C. E8 D. C674 B. Ethenic polymer 60. Low-quality steels with an M suffix on the designation intended C. Polyethylene for non-structural application is classified as ____________. D. Copolymer A. Merchant quality 45. A large molecule with two alternating mers is called as B. Commercial quality _______. C. Drawing quality A. monomer D. Special quality B. elastomer 61. The use of acids to remove oxides and scale on hot-worked C. mers steels is known as_______. D. copolymer or interpolymer A. Tempering B. Pickling 46. What term is used to describe a polymer that has rubberlike C. Machining D. Galvanizing properties? 62. What is the purpose of molybdenum in steel alloying? A. Vulcanizer A. To increase brittleness B. Elasticmer B. To increase dynamic and high-temperature strength and C. Polychloroprene hardness. D. Elastomer C. To reduce brittleness, combine with sulfur 47. What is defined as an alloy of iron and carbon, with the carbon D. To increase corrosion and resistance being restricted within certain concentration limits? 63. Which of the following statements is NOT true? A. Steel A. About 10% of the earth’s crust is iron. B. Wrought Iron B. Pure iron does not have significant industrial use because C. Cast Iron it is too weak and soft. D. Tendons C. Steel is an alloy of carbon and iron with limits on the 48. What is the most popular steel refining process or technique amount of carbon (less than 2%) which involves casting of steel from the BOF or electric furnace D. Steel is made by reducing oxide ore of iron by into cylindrical ingots? thermochemical reactions in a blast furnace or direct A. Vacuum are remelting (VAR) reductions vessel. B. Vacuum induction melting (VIM) 64. What prefix in steel identification means composition varies C. Electron beam refining from normal limits? D. Electroslag refining A. E B. H 49. In what special refining process of steel where molten metal is C. X D. B poured down a tundish (chute) into an ingot mold? 65. What is prefix in steel identification means it is made in an A. Electroslag refining electric furnace? B. Vacuum are remelting A. E B. H C. Vacuum induction melting C. X D. B D. Electron beam refining 66. What letter suffix steel identification means that it is steel with 50. What type of steel has carbon as its principal hardening agent? boron as an alloying element? A. Alloy steel A. xxLxx B. xxBxx B. Stainless steel C. xxHxx D. xxKxx C. Galvanized steel 67. What refers to the tin mill steel, without a coating? D. Carbon steel A. White plate B. Tin Steel free 51. What type of steel has 0.8% carbon and 100% pearlite? C. Black plate D. Dechromate tin A. Austenite B. Eutectoid 68. What combination of elements has high electrical resistance, high corrosion resistance, and high strength at red hear C. Hyper-eutectoid D. Stainless steel temperatures, making it useful in resistance heating? 52. What group of steel are water-hardened tool steels? A. Aluminum bronze A. Group S B. Group W B. Nichrome C. Group O D. Group T 53. What group of steels are molybdenum high-speed steels? C. Hastelloy A. Group A B. Group D D. Alnico 69. A steel cannot qualify for stainless prefix until it has at least C. Group M D. Group H how many percent of chromium? 54. Steels that are used for axles, gears, and similar parts requiring medium to high and strength are known as? A. 10 % B. 20 % A. Medium-carbon steel B. Low-carbon steel C. 25 % D. 5 % 70. Which of the following cast irons is a high-carbon, iron-carbon- C. Very high-carbon D. High-carbon steel silicon alloy? 55. Galvanized steel are steel products coated with _________. A. Deorizers B. Deoxidizers A. Carbon B. Sulfur C. Deterrent D. Deoxifiers C. Zinc D. Nickel 71. Which of the following cast irons is a high-carbon-silicon alloy? 56. What ASTM test for tension is designated for plastics? A. Gray iron B. Malleable iron A. A370 B. D638 C. White iron D. Alloy iron C. E292 D. C674 72. Which of the following cast irons is heat-treated for ductility? 57. What ASTM test for compression is designated for plastic? A. Gray iron B. Malleable iron A. D638 B. D695 C. White iron D. Ductile iron C. D790 D. D732 58. What ASTM test for shear strength is designated for plastics? A. D732 B. D790 C. D695 D. D638 73. Which cast iron is hard and wear resistant? 86. What is the most common alloying ingredient in copper? A. Gray iron B. Ductile iron A. Brass B. Zinc C. White iron D. Malleable iron C. Nickle D. Aluminum 74. What is considered as the general purpose oldest type and 87. What refers to the casehardening process by which the carbon widely used cast iron? content of the steel ear the surface of a part is increased? A. Gray iron B. Ductile iron A. Carburizing B. Annealing C. Alloy iron D. Malleable iron C. Normalizing D. Martempering 75. What is the effect if manganese in cast iron? 88. What is the process of heating a hardened steel to any A. To affect the machinability, ductility and shrinkage temperature below the lower critical temperature, followed by any depending on form desired rate of cooling? B. To reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below 0.5% A. Normalizing B. Spheroidizing and increase hardness above 0.5% C. Carburizing D. Tempering C. To dioxide molten cast iron 89. What is defined as an intimate mechanical mixture of two or D. To increase fluidity and lowers melting temperature more phases having a definite composition and a definite 76. What is the effect of aluminum in cast iron? temperature of transformation within the solid state? A. To increase hardness above 0.5% A. Pearlite B. Eutectoid B. To deoxidize molten cast iron C. Austernite D. Delta solid solution C. To affect machinability, ductility, and shrinkage depending 90. What is the most undesirable of all the elements commonly on form found in steels? D. To reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below 0.5% A. Sulfur B. Phosphorus 77. What is the effect of silicon in cast iron? C. Silicon D. Manganese A. Reduce hardness by combining with sulfur below 0.5% 91. What is a method of casehardening involving diffusion in which and increase the hardness above 0.5% the steel to be casehardened is machined, heat-treated, placed in B. Increase fluidity and lowers melting temperature. an air-tight box and heated to about 1000oF? C. Softens iron and increase ductility below 3.25% hardens A. Annealing B. Normalizing iron above 3.25% and increase acid and corrosion C. Carburizing D. Nitriding resistance above 13% 92. What typical penetrator is used in Brinell hardness test? D. deoxidizes molten cast iron A. 10 mm ball 78. Iron is said to be abundant in nature. About how many percent B. 120° diamond (brale) of the earth’s crust is iron? C. 1.6 mm diameter ball A. 10 % B. 5 % D. 20°needle C. 20 % D. 8 % 93. What is the ratio of the maximum load in a tension test to the 79. What is the advantage of quench hardening? original cross-sectional area of the test bar? A. Improved strength A. Tensile strength B. Hardness B. Yield strength C. Wear characteristics C. Shear strength D. All of the choices D. Flexural Strength 80. What is the lowest-temperature diffusion-hardening process 94. What is the ratio of stress to strain in a material loaded within and does not require a quench? its elastic ranger? A. Carburizing B. Tempering A. Poisson’s ratio C. Nitriding D. Heat-treating B. Refractive index 81. The following statements are true except one. Which one? C. Modulus of elasticity A. Carburizing does not harden a steel. D. Percent elongation B. Flame and induction hardening require the use of 95. What is a measure of rigidity? hardenable steels. A. Stiffness B. Hardness C. Quench-hardened steel does not require tempering to C. Strength D. Modulus of elasticity prevent brittleness. 96. In tensile testing, the increase in the gage length measured D. Induction hardening is usually most efficient on small after the specimen fractures, within the gage length is called parts. _______. 82. Which of he following is a requirement for hardening a steel? A. percent elongation B. creep A. Heating to the proper temperature C. elasticity D. elongation B. Sufficient carbon content 97. What impurity in steel can cause “red shortness”, which means C. Adequate quench the steel becomes unworkable at high temperature? D. All of the choices A. Sulfur B. Silicon 83. What field of study encompasses the procurement and C. Manganese D. Phosphorus production of metals? 98. What is a process of producing a hard surface in a steel having A. Metallurgy B. Geology a sufficiently high carbon content to respond to hardening by a C. Material Science D. Metalgraphy rapid cooling of the surface? 84. What do you call earth and stone missed with the iron oxides? A. Cyaniding B. Nitriding A. Hematite B. Magnetite C. Flame hardening D. Induction hardening C. Gangue D. Ore 99. What is the common reinforcement for polymer composites? 85. What is a coal that has been previously burned in an oxygen- A. Boron B. Ceramic poor environment? C. Graphite D. Glass fiber A. Tuyere B. Coke 100. Which of the following fluids conducts electricity? C. Diamond D. Hematite A. Electrolyte B. Water C. Solution D. Acid 101. What is defined as a local corrosion damaged characterized 114. What is a process for making glass-reinforced shapes that by surface cavities? can be generate by polling resin-impregnated glass stands through A. Cracking B. Pitting a die? C. Cavitation D. Erosion A. Continuous pultrusion 102. What refers to the removal of zinc from brasses? B. Bulk molding A. Dezincification B. Graphitization C. Vacuum bag forming C. Stabilization D. Dealloying D. Resin transfer moulding 103. What is the scaling off of a surface in flakes or layers as the 115. What term is used to denote a family of thermosetting result of corrosion? polymers that are reaction products of alcohols and acids? A. Expoliation B. Corrosion fatigue A. Alkaline B. Alkydes C. Scaping D. Fretting C. Alcocids D. Aldehyde 104. What corrosion occurs under organic coatings on metals as 116. What is the AISI-SAE steel designation for nickel 3.50 alloy? fine, wavy hairlines? A. 13XX B. 23XX A. Stray current corrosion C. 25XX D. 31XX B. Microbiological corrosion 117. What is the AISI-SAE designation for resulfurized and C. Filiform corrosion rephosphorized carbon steel? D. Fretting corrosion A. 13XX B. 31XX 105. What refers to the deterioration of material by oscillatory C. 23XX D. 12XX relative motion of small amplitude (20 to 100 µm) between two 118. What does AISI stands for? solid surfaces in a corrosive environment? A. Asian Institute of Steel Industries A. Stray current corrosion B. American Institute of Steel Industries B. Microbiological corrosion C. Association of Iron and Steel Industries C. Filiform corrosion D. American Iron and Steel Institute D. Fretting corrosion 119. What does SAE stands for? 106. Indicate the false statement about corrosion. A. Society of Automotive Engineers A. Plastics and ceramics are immune to many forms of B. Society of American Engineers corrosion because they are not good conduction of C. Society of Architects and Engineers electricity. D. Society of Alloy Engineers B. The corroded member in a corrosion cell is the cathode. 120. What does ASTM stands for? C. Passivity is a prerequisite for the corrosion protect on A. Association of Steel Testing and Materials many metals. B. American Society for Testing and Materials D. Corrosion of metals is usually electrochemical in nature. C. Asian Society for Testing and Materials 107. Steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with limits on the amount D. Allied Society for Testing and Materials of carbon to less than ______ percent. 121. What is the approximate chromium range of a ferritic A. 2 B. 3 stainless steel? C. 4 D. 1 A. 12 % to 18 % 108. Indicate false statement about stainless steel? B. 10 % to 12 % A. The density of stainless steel is about the same as carbon C. 16 % to 20 % or low-alloy steels. D. 20 % to 24 % B. Stainless steels are poor conductors of heat. 122. The Group H steels can be used in what temperature range? C. Stainless steels are poor conductors of electricity. A. 600oC to 1100oC D. Stainless steels have tensile moduli greater than those of B. 1000oC to 1500oC carbon and alloy steels. C. 1100oC to 2000oC 109. What are the four major alloying elements of austenitic D. 200oC to 800oC stainless steels? 123. The following are primary alloying ingredients of Group H A. Iron, chromium, carbon and nickel steel except: B. Iron, chromium, zinc and nickel A. Molybdenum B. Tungsten C. Iron, chromium, carbon and zinc C. Cobalt D. Chromium D. Iron, chromium, carbon and copper 124. The chrome-molybdenum steels contain how many percent of 110. The electrical resistance of stainless steels can be as much molybdenum? as _____ time that of carbon steel. A. 0.10 B. 0.20 A. 5 B. 6 C. 0.30 D. 0.40 C. 10 D. 15 125. The chrome-vanadium steels contain how many percent of 111. What refers to a shape achieved by allowing a liquid to vanadium? solidify in a mold? A. 0.15 to 0.30 A. Casting B. Molding B. 0.05 to 0.15 C. Forming D. All of the choices C. 0.30 to 0.45 112. Which of the following is NOT a hardware requirement for die D. 0.45 to 0.60 casting? 126. Manganese steel usually contains how many percent of A. Water-cooled metal cavities manganese? B. machined metal holding blocks A. 1 to 5 C. Ejection mechanism B. 5 to 10 D. Metal mold (matching halves) C. 11 to 14 113. What cast iron has modular or spheroidal graphite? D. 14 to 18 A. Ductile iron B. Wrought iron C. Gray iron D. White iron 127. The wear-resistance of this material is attributed to its ability 143. In a system of designating wrought aluminum alloys, what to _______, that is, the hardness is increased greatly when the does the second digit represents? steel is cold worked. A. The purity of aluminum A. cold harden B. stress harden B. The identity of the alloy C. cool-temperature D. strain harden C. The modifications of the alloy group or impurity limits 128. The special chrome steels of the stainless variety contain D. The alloy group how many percent of chromium? 144. In the system of designating wrought aluminum alloys, the A. 4 to 8 B. 9 to 10 letter F that follows the number indicates what condition of the C. 11 to 17 D. 17 to 21 alloy? 129. What refers to the application of any process whereby the A. As fabricated surface of steel is altered so that it will become hard? B. Strain hardened A. Caburizing B. Casehardening C. Annealed C. Annealing D. Surfacehardening D. Artificially aged 130. What refers to the ability of steel to be hardened through to its 145. The following alloys are the chief alloys that are die-cast center in large section? except: A. Malleability B. Hardenability A. Zinc alloys C. Spheroidability D. Rigidity B. Magnesium alloys 131. What is the equilibrium temperature of transformation of C. Manganese alloys austenite to pearlite? D. Aluminum alloys A. 1000o F B. 1333o F 146. What is the minimum tensile strength of Gray Cast Iron class C. 1666o F D. 1222o F 50? 132. The alpha iron will become paramagnetic at temperature A. 25000 lbf/in2 above ____________. B. 35000 lbf/in2 A. 770o C B. 550o C C. 50000 lbf/in2 C. 660o C D. 440o C D. 100000 lbf/in2 133. What structure is formed when transformation occurs at 147. What is the carbon content of wrought iron? temperatures down to the knee of the curve? A. less than 0.1 percent A. Pearlite B. Bainite B. exactly 0.1 percent C. Austenite D. Martensite C. more than 0.1 percent 134. What allotropic form of iron refers to iron that has a D. ranges from 0.1 percent to 0.2 percent temperature range of room temperature to 1670o F? 148. Alnico is an alloy containing how many percent nickel? A. Beta iron B. Gamma iron A. 10 % C. Delta iron D. Alpha iron B. 14 % 135. What steel surface hardening process requires heating at C. 18 % 1000o F for up to 100 hours in an ammonia atmosphere, followed by slow cooling? D. 22 % 149. The most common beta brass with a composition of 60 % A. Nitriding B. Flame hardening copper and 40 % zinc is called ______. C. Precipitaion hardening D. Carburizing A. yellow brass 136. What is the chief ore of tin? B. red brass A. Cassiterite B. Bauxite C. Muntz metal C. Ilmanite D. Galena 137. What is the chief ore of zinc? D. white brass 150. Red brass contains about how many percent of zinc? A. Cassiterite B. Bauxite A. 20 % C. Sphalerite D. Ilmanite 138. What is the chief ore of titanium? B. 15 % A. Sphalerite B. Ilmanite C. 20 % C. Bauxite D. Cassiterite D. 25 % 151. Yellow brass contains approximately how many percent of 139. What is the mixture of gibbsite and diaspore, of which zinc? aluminum is derived? A. Bauxite B. Rutile A. 20 % B. 50 % C. Galera D. Sphalerite C. 30 % D. 40 % 152. Indicate the false statement. 140. The term “brass” is very commonly used to designate any alloy primarily of: A. Aluminum bronzes contain no tin. A. copper and zinc B. aluminum and iron B. Silicon bronzes are usually used for marine application and high-strength fasteners. C. copper and aluminum D. zinc and nickel 141. The term “bronze” is used to designate any alloy containing: C. Bronze is a copper-tin alloy. A. copper and zinc B. copper and aluminum D. Tin is relatively soluble in copper. 153. What is the most abundant metal in nature? C. copper and nickel D. copper and tin 142. In a system of designating wrought aluminum alloys, a four A. Aluminum B. Steel digit number is used. What does the first digit indicates? C. Iron D. Copper A. The purity of aluminum B. The identity of the alloy 154. Indicate the false statement about aluminum. C. The alloy group D. The strength of the alloy A. It has 1/3 the weight of steel. B. It has 1/3 of the stiffness of steel. C. It has high strength-to-weight ratio. D. It has poor thermal and electrical conductivity. 155. What is the effect to aluminum with iron as the alloying 169. What is the electrical resistivity of pure copper in μΩ-cm? element? A. 1.76 B. 1.71 A. Reduce hot-cracking tendencies in casting. C. 1.67 D. 3.10 B. Improve conductivity 170. What should be the resistivity in μΩ-cm of a resistor material? C. Lowers castability A. 200 – 300 B. 100 – 200 D. Improves machinability C. 50 – 150 D. 10 – 50 156. What is the effect to aluminum with copper as alloying 171. What is the most widely used dielectric material in the element? electrical and electronics industry? A. Increase strength up to about 12% A. Polymer B. Plastic B. Reduces shrinkage C. Rubber D. All of the above C. Improves machinability 172. What are natural or synthetic rubber like materials which have D. Increases fluidity in casting outstanding elastic characteristics? 157. Which of the following are two well-known nickel alloys with A. Thermosetting plastics B. Polymers magnetic properties ideal for permanent magnets? C. Elastomers D. Thermoplastic plastics A. Invar and Nilvar 173. What are cellular forms of urethanes, polystyrenes, vinyls, B. Nichrome and Constantan polyehtylenes, polypropylenes, phenolics, epoxies and variety of C. Elinvar and Invar other plastics? D. Alnico and Conife A. Thermoplastic plastics 158. The Portland cement is manufacture from the following B. Plastic foams elements except: C. Polymers A. lime B. silica D. Thermosetting plastics C. alumina D. asphalt 174. What is the widely used electrical insulator? 159. What gives the average ratio of stress to strain for materials A. Plastic B. Polymer operating in the nonlinear region in the stress-strain diagram? C. Epoxy D. Paper A. Modulus of elasticity 175. What is the dielectric strength of an unimpregnated cellulose B. Proportionality limit paper or kraft paper? C. Secant modulus A. 6 to 12 MV/m B. 8 to 14 MV/m D. Tangent modulus C. 10 to 16 MV/m D. 12 to 18 MV/m 160. What test determines the hardenability of a steel specimen? 176. What is the most widely known carbide? A. Jominy end-quench test A. Carbon carbide B. The lever rule B. Lead carbide C. Gibb’s phase test C. Germanium carbide D. Stress relief test D. silicon carbide 161. What steel relief process is used with hypocutectoid steels to 177. Class I capacitors have dielectric constants are up to _____. change martenite into pearlite? A. 100 B. 200 A. Tempering B. Normalizing C. 300 D. 500 C. Annealing D. Spheroidizing 178. What are the typical dielectric constants of class II 162. What is another term for tempering? capacitors? A. Recrystalization B. Annealing A. 500 to 10,000 C. Spheroidizing D. Drawing or toughening B. 1,000 to 10,000 163. All are steel surface hardening processes except one. Which C. 500 to 5,000 one? D. 100 to 1,000 A. Carburizing B. Flame hardening 179. What are the most widely used general-purpose coatings? C. Nitriding D. Annealing A. Alkyds B. Acrylics 164. For metric wire gage, the No. 2 wire is ________ in diameter. C. Epoxies D. Vinyls A. 0.1 mm B. 0.2 mm 180. What is widely used in the electronic industry as a structural C. 0.3 mm D. 0.4 mm member, such as tube envelopes, hermetic seals to metals or 165. Bus bars of rectangular cross section are generally used for ceramics, protective coating on hybrid and integrated circuits, etc.? carrying ________. A. Glass B. Plastic A. high electric current B. low electric current C. Silica D. Film C. high voltage D. low voltage 181. What refers to glasses which are devitrified about 100oC 166. What are used for interconnection on printed-circuit boards? below their softening point to form a very fine network of crystalline A. Unlaminated flat conductors phase? B. Insulated conductors A. Fused silica B. Glass ceramics C. Rounded flexible conductors C. Fused quartz D. Fiber glass D. Flat flexible conductors 182. The percentage change in magnetic properties of materials 167. Yellow brass is a copper alloy with improved mechanical resulting from temperature aging called the ____________. properties but reduced corrosion resistance and electrical A. aging index B. aging factor conductivity. How many percent of yellow brass is copper? C. aging coefficient D. aging point A. 65 % B. 35 % 183. The change in electrical resistance due to the application of C. 55 % D. 45 % magnetic field is called ____________. 168. What type of copper alloy is used as collectors for electric A. magnetic anisotropy generator? B. magnetoresistance A. yellow brass B. Beryllium copper C. magnetostriction C. Tin Bronze D. Phosphor bronze D. magnetizing factor 184. Which material is used for de application such as electromagnetic cores and relays? 200. What is the most common alloying ingredient in copper? A. Iron B. Copper A. Tin C. Steel D. Aluminum B. Lead 185. Which of the following is known as “electrical steel”? C. Zinc A. Silicon steel B. Stainless steel D. Aluminum C. Carbon steel D. Cast Steel 201. The property of metals that allows them to be drawn into thin 186. What is the highest-frequency ferrite? wires beyond their elastic limit without being ruptured is called A. Garnet B. Spinel A. ductility B. malleability C. Mumetal D. Superinvar C. elasticity D. hardness 187. Which material is used for Schottky barrier diodes, light- 202. Interaction between the surface of two closely adjacent emitting diodes, Gunn diodes and injection lasers? bodies which causes them to cling together is known as A. Gallium Arsenide B. Silicon Carbide A. Friction B. Cohesion C. Selenium D. Gallian Phosphide C. Adhesion D. Viscosity 188. What material is used for electroluminescent diodes which 203. Solids which break above the elastic limit are called can emit either green or red light? A. Brittle B. Ductile A. Gallium Arsenide B. Silicon Carbide C. Plastic D. Malleable C. Selenium D. Gallium Phosphide 204. The property of some elementary particles that causes them 189. Lead compounds such as load sulfide, selenide and telluride to exert force on one another I known as may be used for which application? A. Potential difference B. Charge A. Diodes and transistors at low temperature C. Specific change D. Nucleon interaction B. Infrared detectors 205. The property which permits the flow of current under the C. Thermoelectric applications action of a potential difference is called D. All of the above A. Resistance B. Permeance 190. For hardness penetration test, the Rockwell test uses what C. Impedence D. Conductance type of penetrator? 206. When a body is resistant to heat, it is called A. Sphere B. Square pyramid A. Thermoscopic B. Thermotropic C. Asymmetrical pyramid D. Cube C. Thermoduric D. Thermoplastic 191. What is the combination of cutting and scratch test of a 207. The property of fluids by virtue of which they offer resistance material? to flow is known as A. Knoop test B. Vickers test A. Gummosity B. Glutinosity C. File hardness test D. Toughness test C. Viscidity D. Viscosity 192. What refers to the strain energy per unit volume required to 208. The tendency of a body to return to its original size or shape reach the yield point? after having been deformed is called A. Elastic toughness B. Fatigue A. Elastance B. Elasticity C. Hardness D. Creep strain C. Elastivity D. Anelastivity 193. The following are typical properties of ceramics except one. 209. The emission of light by a material because of its high Which one? temperature is known as A. High melting point A. Incandescence B. Luminescence B. High compressive strength C. Scintillation D. Phosphorescence C. High corrosion resistance 210. Which of the following statements is correct concerning the D. High thermal conductivity passage of white light into a glass prism? 194. What refers to the average number of mers in the molecule, A. The violet color travels faster than the red color typically several hundred to several thousand? B. The violet color travels slower than the red color A. Polymerization constant C. All the colors of white light travels the same speed B. Polymerization factor D. Greater the wavelength, slower the speed of color C. Degree of polymerization 211. The property by virtue of which a body resists any attempt to D. Polemerization index change its state of rest or motion is called 195. What nickel alloy has high electrical and corrosion resistance A. Torpidity B. Passivity and high strength at red heat temperature and contain 15 to 20% C. Inactivity D. Inertia chromium? 212. The property of an isolated conductor to store electric charge A. Alnico B. Nichrome is C. Invar D. Nilvar A. Capacitance B. Conductance 196. Silicon bronze contains how many percent of silicon? C. Permeability D. Accumulation A. 96 % B. 3 % 213. If the properties of a body are the same in all directions, it is C. 1 % D. 69 % called 197. What element is added to copper to increase its strength and A. Isodynamic B. Isotropic fatigue properties? C. Isogonic D. Isotopic A. Silicon B. Aluminum 214. The property of an object that determines the direction of heat C. Beryllium D. Zinc flow when in contact with another object is called 198. What element is added to copper to make it extremely hard? A. Calidity B. Pyxeria A. Aluminum B. Zinc C. Caloric D. Temperature C. Lead D. Silicon 215. The rate of flow of thermal energy through a material in the 199. What element constitutes the major component of most presence of a temperature gradient is called bronzes? A. Thermal capacity B. Thermal conductivity A. Zinc B. Tin C. Thermal radiation D. Thermal convection C. Lead D. Aluminum 216. The property of some crystals of absorbing light difference 261. What is the absolute value of the ratio of the transverse strain extents, thereby giving to the crystals different colors according to to the corresponding axial strain in a body subjected to uniaxial the direction of the incident light is known as stress? A. dichroism B. dichromatism a. Poisson’s Ratio b. Euler’s Ratio C. diastrophism D. chromaticity c. Refractive index d. Dielectric index 217. Emission of radiations from a substance during illumination 262. What physical property of a material refers to the highest by radiations of higher frequency is called potential difference that an insulating material of a given thickness A. illuminance B. fluorescence can withstand for a specified time without occurrence of electrical C. radioluminescence D. incandescence breakdown through its bulk? 218. If a materials is feebly repelled by a magnet it is a. Thermal expansion b. Conductivity A. diamagnetic B. paramagnetic c. Dielectric Strength d. Electric Resistivity C. ferromagnetic D. ferromagnetic 263. What physical property of a material refers to the ratio of the 219. The progressive decrease of a property as a result of amount of heat required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of repeated stress is called a substance 1 degree to the heat required to raise the same mass A. debility B. rigidity of water to 1 degree? C. elastic deformation D. fatigue a. Specific Heat b. Latent Heat 220. Property of some pure metals and their alloys at extremely c. Heat of Fusion d. Heat of Fission low temperatures of having negligible to the flow of an electric 264. What refers to the heat needed to change the temperature of current is called the substances without changing its phases? A. supercharging B. supercooling a. Latent heat b. Sensible heat C. superfluidity D. superconductivity c. Specific heat d. entropy 251. What property of an element is determined by the number of 265. What physical property of a material refers to the temperature protons in its nucleus? at which a polymer under a specified load shows a polymer under a. Atomic weight b. Atomic number a specified load shows a specified amount of deflection? c. Isotopes d. Atomic Mass unit a. Curie temperature 252. What are considered as the building blocks for engineering b. Specific Heat materials? c. Heat Distortion Temperature a. Atoms b. Elements d. Thermal Conductivity c. Compounds d. Matter 266. What mechanical property of a material refers to the nominal 253. What refers to a metal combined with one or more other stress at fracture in a tension test at constant load and constant elements? temperature? a. Mixture b. Compound a. Creep strength c. Alloy d. Molecule b. Stress rapture strength 254. What do you call metals reinforced by ceramic or other c. Compressive yield strength materials usually in fiber form? d. Hardness a. Metalloids b. Matrix Alloys 267. What mechanical property of a material refers to the c. Metal Lattices d. Metal Matrix Composites resistance to plastic deformation? 255. The engineering materials known as “plastics” are more a. Rigidity b. Plasticity correctly called c. Ductility d. Hardness a. Polyvinyl Chloride b. Polymers 268. What is obtained by repeatedly loading a specimen at given c. Polyethylene d. Mers stress levels until it fails? 256. What is a combination of two or more materials that has a. Elastic Limit properties that the components material do not have by b. Endurance limit or fatigue strength of material themselves? c. Creep a. Compound b. Composite d. All of these c. Mixture d. Matrix 269. What dimensional property of a material refers to the 257. What physical property of a material that refers to the point at deviation from edge straightness? which a material liquefies on heating or solidifies on cooling? a. Lay b. Out of Flat a. Melting point b. Curie Point c. Camber d. Waviness c. Refractive index d. Specific heat 270. What dimensional property of a material refers to a wave like 258. What physical property of a material that refers to the variation from a perfect surface, generally much wider in spacing temperature at which ferromagnetic materials can no longer be and in higher in amplitude than surface roughness? magnetized by outside forces? a. Lay b. Waviness a. Melting point b. Curie Point c. Surface finish d. Out of flat c. Refractive index d. Specific heat 271. Wood is composed of chains of cellulose molecules bonded 259. What physical property of a material refers to the amount of together by another natural polymer called weight gain (%) experienced in a polymer after immersion in water a. Plastic b. Lignin for a specified length of time under a controlled environment? c. mer d. additive a. Dielectric strength b. Electric Resistivity 272. What is a polymer production process that involves forming a c. Water Absorption d. Thermal conductivity polymer chain containing two different monomers? 260. What physical property of material refers to the rate of heat a. Copolymerization b. Blending flow per unit time in a homogeneous material under steady state c. Alloying d. Cross-linking conditions per unit area, unit temperature gradient in a direction 273. What is the generic name of a class of polymer which is perpendicular to the area? commercial known as nylon? a. Thermal expansion a. Polyacetals b. Polyamide b. Thermal conductivity c. Cellulose d. Polyester c. Heat distortion temperature d. Water absorption 274. What is a method of forming polymer sheets or films into 290. Which of the following material has permeability, slightly less three-dimensional shapes, in which the sheets is clamped on the than that of free space? edge, heated until it soften and sags, drawn in contact with the a. Paramagnetic materials mold by vacuum, and cooled while still in contact with the mold? b. Non-magnetic materials a. Calendering b. Blow molding c. Ferromagnetic materials c. Thermoforming d. Solid phase forming d. Diamagnetic materials 275. What is a process of forming continuous shapes by forcing a 291. What materials has permeabilities slighter greater than that of molten polymer through a metal die? free space? a. Calendering b. Thermoforming a. Paramagnetic materials c. Lithugraphy d. Extrusion b. Non-magnetic materials 276. What chemical property of a material which refers to its ability c. Ferromagnetic materials to resist deterioration by chemical or electrochemical reactions d. Diamagnetic materials with environment? 292. Which of the following materials have very high a. Stereospecificity b. Corrosion resistance permeabilities? c. Conductivity d. Electrical Resistance a. Paramagnetic materials 277. What refers to the tendency for polymers and molecular b. Non-magnetic materials material to form with an ordered spatial, three-dimensional c. Ferromagnetic materials arrangement of monomer molecules? d. Diamagnetic materials a. Stereospecificity b. Corrosion resistance 293. What is ASTM test for tension is designated for plastics? c. Retentivity d. Spatial Configuration a. A370 b. D638 278. What is the ratio of the maximum load in a tension test to the c. E292 d. C674 original cross-sectional area of the test bar? 294. What is ASTM test for compression is designated for a. Tensile strength b. Yield strength plastics? c. Shear strength d. Flexual strength a. D638 b. D695 279. What is the ratio of stress to strain in a material loaded within c. D790 d. D732 its elastic range? 295. What is ASTM test for shear strength is designated for a. Poisson’s ratio b. Refractive index plastics? c. Modulus of elasticity d. Percent elongation a. D732 b. D790 280. What is measure of rigidity? c. D695 d. D638 a. Stiffness b. Hardness 296. What is the ASTM tension testing designation for standard c. Strength d. Modulus of elasticity methods of steel products? 281. The greatest stress which a material is capable of a. A370 b. E345 withstanding without deviation from acceptable stress to strain is c. E8 d. C674 called 297. What do you call a polymer without additive and without a. elongation b. proportional limit blending with another polymer? c. yield point d. elastic limit a. Homopolymer b. Ethenic polymer 282. What refers to the stress at which a material exhibits a c. Polyethylene d. Copolymer specified deviation from proportionality of stress and strain? 298. A large molecule with two alternating mers is known as a. Tensile strength b. Shear strength a. monomer b. elastomer c. Yield strength d. Flexural strength c. mers d. copolymer or interpolymer 283. What is the amount of energy required to fracture a given 299. What term is used to describe a polymer that has rubberlike volume of material? properties? a. Impact strength b. Endurance limit a. Vulcanizer b. Elasticmer c. Creep strength d. Stress rupture strength c. Polychloroprene d. Elastomer 284. What mechanical property of a material which is a time- 300. What is defined as an alloy of iron and carbon, with the dependent permanent strain under stress? carbon being restricted within certain concentration limits? a. elongation b. elasticity a. Steel b. Wrought iron c. creep d. rupture c. Cast Iron d. Tendons 285. In tensile testing, the increase in the gage length measured 301. What type of steel has carbon as its principal hardening after the specimen fractures within the gage length is called agent? a. Percent elongation b. Creep a. Alloy steel b. Stainless steel c. Elasticity d. Rupture c. Galvanized steel d. Carbon steel 286. What is the resistance of a material to plastic deformation? 302. What type of steel has 0.8% of carbon and 100% pearlite? a. Hardness b. Creepage a. Austenite b. Eutectoid c. Stiffness d. Rigidity c. Hyper-eutectoid d. Stainless steel 287. What is the maximum stress below which a material can 303. Galvanized steel are steel products coated with theoretically endure an infinite number of stress cycles? a. Carbon b. Sulfur a. Endurance state b. Endurance test c. Zinc d. Nickel c. Endurance limit d. Endurance strength 304. The use of acids to remove oxides and scale on hot-worked 288. What is a substance that attracts piece of iron? steels is known as a. Conductor b. Semiconductor a. Tempering b. Picking c. Magnet d. All of the choices c. Machining d. Galvanizing 289. Which of the following is a natural magnet? 305. What do you call tin mill steel without a coating? a. Steel b. Magnesia a. White plate b. Tin steel free c. Lodestone d. Soft iron c. Black plate d. Dechromate tin 306. What combination of elements has high electrical resistance 323. What is the process of producing a hard surface in a steel high corrosion resistance and high strength at red heat having sufficiently high carbon content to respond to hardening by temperature making it useful in resistance heating? rapid cooling of the surface? a. Aluminum bronze b. Nichrome a. Cyaniding b. Nitriding c. Hastelloy d. Alnico c. Flame hardening d. Induction hardening 307. A steel cannot qualify for stainless prefix until it has at least 324. What is the most common reinforcement for polymer how many percent of Chromium? composites? a. 10% b. 20% a. Boron b. Ceramic c. 25% d. 5% c. Graphite d. Glass Fiber 308. What do you add to compensate for the remaining high iron- 325. In electrochemistry, oxidation is a lost of oxide content of the steel? a. Ion b. Electron a. Deorizers b. Deoxidizers c. Proton d. Anode c. Deterrent d. Detoxifiers 326. What is the process of putting back the lost electrons to 309. Which of the following cast irons is high carbon, iron-carbon- convert the ion back to metal? silicon alloy? a. Oxidation b. Corrosion a. Gray iron b. Malleable iron c. Reduction d. Ionization c. White iron d. Ductile iron 327. What do call a fluid that conducts electricity? 310. Which of the following cast irons is a heat-treated for a. Electrolyte b. Water ductility? c. Solution d. Acid a. Gray iron b. Malleable iron 328. What is defined as a local corrosion damaged characterized c. White iron d. Ductile iron by surface cavities? 311. Which cast iron is hard and wear resistant? a. Cracking b. Pitting a. Gray iron b. Malleable iron c. Cavitation d. Erosion c. White iron d. Ductile iron 329. What do you call the removal of zinc from brasses? 312. What is considered as the general purpose, oldest type and a. Dezincification b. Graphitization widely used cast iron? c. Stabilization d. Dealloying a. Gray iron b. Malleable iron 330. What is the scaling off a surface in flakes or layers as the c. White iron d. Ductile iron result of corrosion? 313. What is the advantage of quench hardening? a. Expoliation b. Corrosion Fatigue a. Improved strength b. Hardness c. Scaping d. Fretting c. Wear characteristics d. All of the choices 331. What refers to a shape achieved by a allowing a liquid to 314. What is the lowest-temperature diffusion hardening process solidify in a mold? and does not require a quench? a. Casting b. Molding a. Carburizing b. Tempering c. Forming d. All of the choices c. Nitriding d. Heat-treating 332. What Cast Iron has nodular of spheroidal graphite? 315. Which of the following is a requirement for hardening a steel? a. Ductile iron b. Wrought Iron a. Heating at proper temperature c. Gray Iron d. White Iron b. Sufficient carbon content 333. What is a process for making glass-reinforced shapes that c. Adequate Quench can be generated by pulling resin-impregnated glass strands d. All of the choices through a die? 316. What field of study encompasses the procurement and a. Continuous pultrusion b. Bulk molding production of metals? c. Vacuum bag forming d. Resin transfer molding a. Metallurgy b. Geology 334. What is a natural substance that makes up a significant c. Material Science d. Metalgraphy portion of all plant life? 317. What do you call earth and stone mixed with the iron oxides? a. Cellulose b. Polyacetal a. Hematite b. Magnetite c. Polycarbonates d. Polyimides c. Gangue d. Ore 335. What term is used to denote a family of thermosetting 318. What is a coal that has been previously burned in an oxygen polymers that are reaction products of alcohols and acids? poor environment. a. Alkaline b. Alkydes a. Tuyene b. Coke c. Alcocids d. Aldehyde c. Diamond d. Hematite 336. What refers to the application of any process whereby the 319. What is the most common alloying ingredient in copper? surface of steel is altered so that it will become hard? a. Brass b. Nickel a. Carburizing b. Casehardening c. Zinc d. Aluminum c. Annealing d. Surface hardening 320. What refers to the case hardening process by which the 337. What is the chief ore of tin? carbon content of the steel near the surface of a part is increased? a. Cassiterite b. Bauxite a. Carburidizing b. Annealing c. llmanite d. Galena c. Normalizing d. Martempering 338. What is the chief ore of zinc 321. What is the most undesirable of all the elements commonly a. Cassiterite b. Bauxite found in steels? c. Sphalerite d. Galena a. Sulfur b. Phosphorus 339. What is the chief ore of titanium? c. Silicon d. Manganese a. Cassiterite b. Bauxite 322. What impurity in steel can cause “red shortness”, which c. llmanite d. Galena means the steel becomes unworkable in high temperature? 340. What is a mixture of gibbsite and diaspore of which aluminum a. Sulfur b. Silicon is derived? c. Manganese d. Phosphorus a. Bauxite b. Rutile c. Galena d. Sphalerite 341. The term bronze is used to designate any alloy containing a. Copper and zinc b. Aluminum and iron c. Copper and aluminum d. Copper and tin 342. The term brass is used to designate an alloy containing a. Copper and zinc b. Aluminum and iron c. Copper and aluminum d. Copper and tin 343. What is the most abundant metal in nature? a. Aluminum b. Steel c. Iron d. Copper 344. What steel relief process is used with hypoeutectoid steels to change martenite into pearlite? a. Tempering b. Normalizing c. Annealing d. Spheroidizing 345. The Portland cement is manufactured from the following elements except a. lime b. silica c. alumina d. asphalt 346. What is another term for Tempering? a. Recrystallization b. Annealing c. Spheroidizing d. Drawing or toughening 347. All are steel surface hardening processes except a. Carburizing b. Flame Hardening c. Nitriding d. Annealing 348. The pressure which a substances is capable of supporting without fracturing a. Shear Stress b. Yield Strength c. Yield Stress d. Shear Modulus 349. The dimensionless parameter describing deformation a. Energy b. Work c. Strain d. Stress 350. The general law of mechanics that stress is directly proportional to strain a. Mean Speed Theorem b. Poisson Ratio c. Charles’ Theorem d. Hooke’s Law