MD Elements Set 1
A machine tool used to cut metal parts of
1. Heating above the transformation range,
usually 1300F to 1350F, and cooling slowly
to soften the metal and increase in
machining.
ANS: Annealing
2. Heating above the transformation
temperature and quenching usually in oil,
for the purpose of increasing the hardness.
ANS: Hardening
3. Reheating to a temperature below the
transformation range, followed by any
desired rate of cooling to attain the desired
properties of the metal.
ANS: Tempering
4. Heating to a subcritical temperature, about
1100F to 1300F and holding at that
temperature for a suitable time for the
purpose of reducing internal residual
stresses.
ANS: Stress relieving
5. Heating to some 100F above the
transformation range with subsequent
cooling to below that range in still air at
room temperature to produce uniform
structure of the metal.
ANS: Normalizing
6. A machine tool used for producing holes in
metal by the use of a cutting tool called
drill.
ANS: Drilling machine
7. A machine tool used to form metal parts by
removing metal from a workpiece by the
use of a revolving cutter with many teeth
each tooth having a cutting edge which
removes its share of the stock.
ANS: Milling machine
8. A machine tool used to sharpen or shape
tools by using an abrasive wheel.
ANS: Grinder
9. A machine tool used to enlarge a hole by
means of an adjustable cutting tool with
only one cutting edge.
ANS: Boring machine
10.
light, medium, and large sections using a
reciprocating hacksaw blade.
ANS: Power saw
11. A machine tool used to machine flat or
plane surfaces with a single point cutting
tool.
ANS: Shaper
12. A machine tool used for production of flat
surfaces on pieces too large or too heavy to
hold in a shaper.
ANS: Planer
13. A machine tool used to finish internal or
external surfaces, such as holes or keyways
by the use of a cutter called a broach, which
has a series of cutting edges or teeth.
ANS: Broaching machine
14. An alloy of copper and tin.
ANS: Bronze
15. An alloy of copper and zinc.
ANS: Brass
16. The process of forming metal parts by the
use of dies after the metal is heated to its
plastic range.
ANS: Rolling
17. The process of forming a metal parts by the
use of a powerful pressure from a hammer
or press to obtain the desired shape, after
the metal has been heated to its plastic
range.
ANS: Forging
18. A manganese steel containing
approximately 0.20% carbon.
ANS: SAE 1320
19. A metal turning machine tool in which the
work, while revolving on a horizontal axis, is
acted upon by a cutting tool which is made
to move slowly in a direction more or less
parallel to the axis of the work.
ANS: Lathe machine
20. It consists of shaping a piece by bringing it
into contact with a rotating abrasive wheel.
ANS: Grinding
21. A tool used in measuring diameter.
ANS: Caliper
22. Used to true and align machine tools,
fixtures, and works, to test and inspect size
trueness of finished work, and to compare
measurements either heights or depths or
many other measurements.
ANS: Dial indicator
23. The ability of metal to be deformed
considerably without rupture.
ANS: Plasticity
24. The shop term used to include the marking
or inscribing of center points, circles, arcs,
or straight lines upon metal surfaces, either
curved or flat, for the guidance of the
worker.
ANS: Laying out
25. An operation of sizing and finishing a hole
by means of a cutting tool having several
cutting edges.
ANS: Reaming
26. The operation of making a cone-shaped
enlargement of the end of a hole, as for a
recess for a flat head screw.
ANS: Countersinking
27. The operation of enlarging a hole by means
of an adjustable cutting tool with only one
cutting edge.
ANS: Boring
28. An imaginary circle passing through the
points at which the teeth of the meshing
gears contact each other.
ANS: Pitch circle
29. A type of bolt intended for use in bolting
wooden parts together or wood to metal. It
has a short portion of shank just
underneath a round head, which is
designed to keep the bolt from turning in
the wood when the nut is tightened.
ANS: Carriage bolt
30. The number of teeth per inch of pitch
diameter and which gives some indications
of the size of the gear teeth.
ANS: Diametral Pitch
31. The distance from the center of one tooth
of a gear to the center of the next
consecutive tooth measured on the pitch.
ANS: Circular pitch
32. The portion of a gear tooth that projects
above or outside the pitch circle.
ANS: Addendum
33. The portion of the gear tooth space that is
cut below the pitch circle and is equal to the
addendum plus the clearance.
ANS: Dedendum
34. When meshed with a gear, it is used to
change rotary motion to reciprocating
motion.
ANS: Gear rack
35. A kind of gear used for heavy duty works
where a large ratio of speed is required and
are extensively used in speed reducers.
ANS: Worm gear
36. A kind of gear used to transmit motion from
one shaft to another shaft at an angle to the
first.
ANS: Bevel gear
37. The uniform heating of steel above the
usual hardening temperatures, followed by
cooling freely in air.
ANS: Normalizing
38. The operation of cooling a heated piece f
work rapidly by dipping it in water, brine or
oil.
ANS: Quenching
39. A method used in softening a piece of metal
that is too hard to machine and is done by
heating steel slowly above the usual
hardening temperature, keeping it at the
heat for to 2 hours, then cooling slowly,
preferably in a furnace.
ANS: Annealing
40. The total permissible variation in the size of
a dimension; the difference between the
limits of size.
ANS: Tolerance
41. The operation of machining the end of a
workpiece to make the end square with the
axis.
ANS: Squaring
42. The clearance between the tooth profiles of
a gear tooth.
ANS: Backlash
43. A mechanism which usually do the indexing
in a machine tool.
ANS: Dividing head
44. A material that can wear away a substance
softer than itself.
ANS: Abrasive
45. A cylindrical bar of steel with threads
formed around it and grooves or flutes
running lengthwise in it, intersecting with
the threads to form cutting edges. It is used
to cut internal threads.
ANS: Tap
46. A set of gages consisting of thin strips of
metal of various thickness mounted in a
steel case or holder and is widely used for
measuring and checking clearances.
ANS: Feeler gage
47. A machine tool which is very similar to a
shaper except that the ram reciprocates
vertically rather than horizontally.
ANS: Slotter
48. A kind of bolts which has no head and
instead has threads on both ends.
ANS: Stud bolts
49. A kind of chuck which has reversible jaws
which could be adjusted separately.
ANS: Independent chuck
50. A tool which when pressed into a finished
hole in a piece of work, provides centers on
which the piece may be turned or otherwise
machined.
ANS: Mandrel
51. A kind of chuck which should not be used
where extreme accuracy is required.
ANS: Universal chuck
52. The process of checking or producing
checkers on the surface of a piece by rolling
checkered depressions into the surface.
ANS: Knurling
53. It fits into the main spindle of a lathe and is
so called because it acts as a bearing
surface on which the work rests. It revolves
with the work. When compared with the
hardness of the dead center in the tailstock,
it is usually soft, and is so made since it
does no work.
ANS: Live center
54. A gripping device with two or more
adjustable jaws set radially.
ANS: Chuck
55. Steel balls for ball bearings are
manufactured by:
ANS: Cold heading
56. Addendum of a cycloidal gear tooth is:
ANS: Epicycloids
57. In a lathe, it comprises the main spindle, the
necessary mechanism for obtaining the
various spindle speed and also certain gears
which are used to operate the quick-change
gear mechanism.
ANS: Headstock
58. The process of heating a piece of steel to a
temperature within or above critical range
and cooling rapidly.
ANS: Hardening
59. Welding operation in which a non-ferrous
filler metal melts at a temperature below
that of the metal joined but is heated above
450C.
ANS: Brazing
60. Uniting two pieces of metal by means of a
different metal which is applied between
the two in molten state.
ANS: Soldering
61. Fusion process in which the metal is heated
into a state of fusion permitting it to flow
together into a solid joint.
ANS: Electric arc welding
62. Joining metal by means of high current at
low voltage. During the passage of current,
pressure by the electrodes produces a forge
weld.
ANS: Resistance welding
63. A device for accurately measuring
diameters.
ANS: Micrometer
64. A group of thin steel strips of measuring
clearances.
ANS: Feeler gage
65. A hand tool used to measure engine crank
web deflections.
ANS: Distortion gage
66. A hand tool used to measure tension on 81. An alloy of copper and tin and small amount
bolts. of phosphorous.
ANS: Torque wrench ANS: Bronze
67. A gear with teeth on the outer cylindrical 82. The process of working metals by the
surface. application of sudden blows or by steady
ANS: External gear pressure.
68. The diameter of a circle coinciding with the ANS: Forging
top of the teeth of an internal gear. 83. A heavy rotating body which serves as
ANS: Internal diameter reservoir for absorbing and redistributing
69. A circle coinciding with a tangent to the kinetic energy.
bottom of the tooth space. ANS: Flywheel
ANS: Root circle 84. The minimum thickness of steel members
70. The total depth of a tooth space, equal to exposed to weather and accessible for
addendum plus dedendum. painting is:
ANS: Whole depth ANS: 10 mm
71. The depth of tooth space below the pitch 85. The common deoxidizer and cleanser of
circle. steel, forming oxides and sulfates, that are
ANS: Dedendum carried off in the slag.
72. The ratio of gear teeth to each mm pitch ANS: Manganese
diameter. 86. A highly transparent and exceedingly hard
ANS: Diametral pitch crystalline stone of almost pure carbon.
73. It is used to produce a variety of surfaces by ANS: Diamond
using a circular-type cutter with multiple 87. A fine grained, salty silica rock used for
teeth. sharpening edge tools.
ANS: Milling machine ANS: Oilstone
74. Cutting a hole by means of rotating tool or 88. An amorphous solid made by fusing silica
the work may revolve and to the tool with a basic oxide.
remain fixed as in the lathe. ANS: Glass
ANS: Boring 89. A soft yellow metal, known since ancient
75. Galvanized iron is a term referring to iron times a precious metal which all material
coated with: values are based.
ANS: Zinc ANS: Gold
76. The moment of inertia of a rectangle whose 90. A device used to prevent leakage of media.
base is b and height h about its base is? ANS: Seal
ANS: bh3/3 91. The maximum stress induced in a material
77. In usual spur gearing, tooth outline are when subjected to alternating or repeated
usually _________ curves. loading without causing failure.
ANS: Involute ANS: Endurance limit
78. A stainless steel is obtained principally by 92. The total deformation measured in the
the use of the following alloying element. direction of the line of stress.
ANS: Chromium ANS: Strain
79. A kind of gear which has a line of contact 93. The maximum stress to which a material
between the teeth. can be subjected without a trace of any
ANS: Herringbone gear permanent set remaining upon a complete
80. The material used in high speed processes. withdrawal of the stress.
ANS: High speed steel ANS: Elastic limit
94. Fluid film desired between two surfaces
having relative sliding motion.
ANS: Lubrication
95. Flexible material used to seal pressurized
fluids, normally under dynamic conditions.
ANS: Packings
96. A total resistance that a material offers to
an applied load.
ANS: Stress
97. A property of material which relates the
lateral strains to the longitudinal strain.
ANS: Poissons ratio
98. Is sulfurite a classification of iron ore?
ANS: No
99. This type of metal will respond to heat
treatment.
ANS: Medium carbon steel
100. This type of steel is non-magnetic.
ANS: Manganese steel