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WorksheetsGEAS 19
Total questions: 50
Worksheet time: 25mins
What are considered as the “building blocks” for engineering materials?
A. Atoms
B. Elements
C. Matters
D. Compounds
What are the major classes of engineering materials?
A. Metals, ceramics and semiconductors
B. Polymers, metals and composites
C. Metals, ceramics, polymers and semiconductors
D. Metals, ceramics, polymers, semiconductors and composites
What types of materials behave like iron when placed in a magnetic field?
A. Crystals
B. Amorphous materials
C. Ferromagnetic materials
D. Metalloids
What do you call metals reinforced by ceramics or other materials, usually in fiber form?
A. Metalloids
B. Matrix alloys
C. Metal lattices
D. Metal Matrix composites
What is a combination of one or more metals with a nonmetallic element?
A. Metalloids
B. Matrix Composite
C. Inert
D. Ceramic
Polymer comes from Greek words “poly” which means “many” and “meros” which means
A. metal
B. material
C. part
D. plastic
The engineering materials known as “plastics” are more correctly called ____________.
A. Polymers
B. Mers
C. Polyvinyl chloride
D. Polyethylene
What is a combination of two or more materials that has properties that the components materials do not have by themselves?
A. Compound
B. Mixture
C. Composite
D. Matrix
What is a reference sheet for the elements that can be used to form engineering materials?
A. Truth Table
B. Building blocks of Materials
C. Periodic Table
D. Structure of Materials
What physical property of a material that refers to the point at which a material liquefies on heating or solidifies on cooling?
A. Melting point
B. Curie point
C. Refractive index
D. Specific heat
What physical property of a material that refers to the temperature at which ferromagnetic materials can no longer be magnetized by outside forces?
A. Thermal conductivity
B. Curie point
C. Melting point
D. Thermal expansion
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?
A. Electric resistivity
B. Dielectric strength
C. Thermal conductivity
D. Water absorption
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?
A. Thermal expansion
B. Heat distortion temperature
C. Thermal conductivity
D. Water absorption
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?
A. Thermal expansion
B. Conductivity
C. Electrical resistivity
D. Dielectric strength
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.
A. Latent heat
B. Specific heat
C. Heat of fusion
D. Heat of fission
What physical property of a material refers to the temperature at which a polymer under a specified load shows a specified amount of deflection?
A. Curie temperature
B. Heat distortion temperature
C. Specific heat
D. Thermal conductivity
What mechanical property of a material refers to the nominal stress at fracture in a tension test at constant load and constant temperature?
A. Creep strength
B. Compressive yield strength
C. Stress rapture strength
D. Hardness
What mechanical property of a material refers to the resistance to plastic deformation?
A. Rigidity
B. Plasticity
C. Hardness
D. Ductility
What parameter is defined as the temperature at which the toughness of the material drops below some predetermined value, usually 15ft-lb?
A. Heat distortion temperature
B. Curie temperature
C. Thermal conductivity
D. Nil ductility temperature
What is obtained by repeatedly loading a specimen at given stress levels until it fails?
A. Elastic limit
B. Endurance limit or fatigue strength of material
C. Creep
D. All of the choices
What dimensional property of a material refers to the deviation from edge straightness?
A. Lay
B. Out of flat
C. Waviness
D. Camber
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?
A. Waviness
B. Lay
C. surface finish
D. Out of flat
Wood is composed of chains of cellulose molecules bonded together by another natural polymer called ________.
A. plastic
B. additive
C. mer
D. lignin
What is a polymer production process that involves forming a polymer chain containing two different monuments?
A. Cross-linking
B. Blending
C. Alloying
D. Copolymerization
What is the generic name of class of polymer which is commercially known as “nylon”?
A. Polyamide
B. Polyacetals
C. Cellulose
D. Polyester
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.
A. 100%
B. 150%
C. 200%
D. 250%
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?
A. Calendaring
B. Blow molding
C. Solid phase forming
D. Thermoforming
What is a process of forming continuous shapes by forcing a molten polymer through a metal die?
A. Calendaring
B. Thermoforming
C. Lithugraphy
D. Extrusion
What chemical property of a material which refers to its ability to resist deterioration by chemical or electrochemical reactions with environment?
A. Stereo specificity
B. Conductivity
C. Corrosion resistance
D. Electrical resistance
What refers to the tendency for polymers and molecular materials to from with an ordered, spatial, three-dimensional arrangement of monomer molecules?
A. Stereo specificity
B. Conductivity
C. Retentivity
D. Spatial configuration
What is the amount of energy required to fracture a given volume of material?
A. Creep strength
B. Impact strength
C. Endurance limit
D. Stress rupture strength
What mechanical property of a material which is a time-dependent permanent strain under stress?
A. Elongation
B. Elasticity
C. Rupture
D. Creep
What refers to the stress at which a material exhibits a specified deviation from proportionality of stress and strain?
A. Tensile strength
B. Yield strength
C. Shear strength
D. Flexural strength
The greatest stress which a material is capable of withstanding without a deviation from acceptable of stress to strain is called _______.
A. Elongation
B. yield point
C. proportional limit
D. elastic limit
What is the maximum stress below which a material can theoretically endure an infinite number of stress cycles?
A. Endurance state
B. Endurance limit
C. Endurance test
D. endurance strength
What is a substance that attracts piece of iron?
A. Conductor
B. Semiconductor
C. Semimetal
D. Magnet
Which of the following is a natural magnet?
A. Steel
B. Magnesia
C. Lodestone
Soft iron
What is the resistance of a material to plastic deformation?
A. Hardness
B. Stiffness
C. Creepage
D. Rigidity
Which of the following materials has permeability slightly less than that of free space?
A. Paramagnetic materials
B. Non-magnetic materials
C. Diamagnetic materials
D. Ferromagnetic materials
What materials has permiabilities slightly greater than of free space?
A. Paramagnetic materials
B. Non-magnetic materials
C. Ferromagnetic materials
D. Diamagnetic materials
Which of the materials have very high permiabilities?
A. Paramagnetic materials
B. Non-magnetic materials
C. Diamagnetic materials
D. Ferromagnetic materials
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?
A. Metal
B. Metalloid
C. Ceramic
D. Plastic
Some polymetric materials such as epoxies are formed by strong primary chemical bonds called ________.
A. Metallic bond
B. Cross linking
C. Van der Waals bond
D. Covalent bond
What do you call a polymer without additives and without blending with another polymer?
A. Homo polymer
B. Ethenic polymer
C. Polyethylene
D. Copolymer
A large molecule with two alternating mers is called as _______.
A. monomer
B. elastomer
C. copolymer or interpolymer
D. mers
What term is used to describe a polymer that has rubberlike properties?
A. Vulcanizer
C. Elastomer
C. Polychloroprene
D. Elasticmer
What is defined as an alloy of iron and carbon, with the carbon being restricted within certain concentration limits?
A. Steel
B. Wrought Iron
C. Cast Iron
D. Tendons
What is the most popular steel refining process or technique which involves casting of steel from the BOF or electric furnace into cylindrical ingots?
A. Vacuum induction melting (VIM)
B. Vacuum are remelting (VAR)
C. Electron beam refining
D. Electroslag refining
In what special refining process of steel where molten metal is poured down a tundish (chute) into an ingot mold?
A. Electron beam refining
B. Vacuum are remelting
C. Vacuum induction melting
D. Electroslag refining
What type of steel has carbon as its principal hardening agent?
A. Alloy steel
B. Carbon steel
C. Galvanized steel
D. Stainless steel
