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GATE Mechanical Engineering · Manufacturing - Welding · 1988-2026
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All concepts →A work piece is to be firmly held in a fixture. It is to be machined by using a plain slab milling cutter as shown in the figure below. Which one of the following options is the mo...
In a deep drawing operation of a rectangular sheet metal, 30% stretching in length results in 15% reduction in thickness. Assuming volume constancy, the normal anisotropy of the sh...
During orthogonal turning by using a single point cutting tool, feed rate is 0.24 mm/rev. The uncut chip thickness is 0.23 mm. The shear angle, tangential force component, and radi...
A drill bit during its lifetime can produce 150 through holes in a plate at a drill-speed of 200 RPM. If the drill-speed increases to 300 RPM, then it can produce 60 through holes...
Ceramics and glass are machined by
Match the mold elements in the casting process with the most suitable function Mold element P Blind riser Q Chill R Skim bob S Core T Insulating sleeve U Inoculant Function I Casti...
A plate of 30 mm thickness is fed through a rolling mill with two powered rolls. Each roll has a diameter of 500 mm. The plate thickness is to be reduced to 27 mm in a single pass....
A plate of 30 mm thickness is fed through a rolling mill with two powered rolls. Each roll has a diameter of 500 mm . The plate thickness is to be reduced to 27 mm in a single pass...
Two metal parts (a cylinder and a cube) of same volume are cast under identical conditions. The diameter of the cylinder is equal to its height. The ratio of the solidification tim...
The preparatory functions in Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine programing are denoted by the alphabet
In an arc welding process, the voltage and current are 30 V and 200 A, respectively. The cross-sectional area of the joint is 20 mm² and the welding speed is 5 mm/s. The heat requi...
A flat surface of a C60 steel having dimensions of 100 mm (length) x 200 mm (width) is produced by a HSS slab mill cutter. The 8-toothed cutter has 100 mm diameter and 200 mm width...
The preparatory functions in Computer Numerical Controlled (CNC) machine programming are denoted by the alphabet
Two surfaces P and Q are to be joined together. In which of the given joining operation(s), there is no melting of the two surfaces P and Q for creating the joint?
In a metal casting process to manufacture parts, both patterns and moulds provide shape by dictating where the material should or should not go. Which of the option(s) given correc...
In an ideal orthogonal cutting experiment (see figure), the cutting speed V is 1 m/s, the rake angle of the tool α = 5°, and the shear angle, φ, is known to be 45°. Applying the id...
A CNC machine has one of its linear positioning axes as shown in the figure, consisting of a motor rotating a lead screw, which in turn moves a nut horizontally on which a table is...
A part, produced in high volumes, is dimensioned as shown. The machining process making this part is known to be statistically in control based on sampling data. The sampling data...
In a metal casting process to manufacture parts, both patterns and moulds provide shape by dictating where the material should or should not go. Which of the option(s) given correc...
A surface grinding operation has been performed on a Cast Iron plate having dimensions 300 mm (length) x 10 mm (width) x 50 mm (height). The grinding was performed using an alumina...
The length, width and thickness of a steel sample are 400 mm, 40 mm and 20 mm, respectively. Its thickness needs to be uniformly reduced by 2 mm in a single pass by using horizonta...
The figure shows a pouring arrangement for casting of a metal block. Frictional losses are negligible. The acceleration due to gravity is 9.81 m/s². The time (in s, round off to tw...
A gas tungsten arc welding operation is performed using a current of 250 A and an arc voltage of 20 V at a welding speed of 5 mm/s. Assuming that the arc efficiency is 70%, the net...
The thickness of a sheet is reduced by rolling (without any change in width) using 600 mm diameter rolls. Neglect elastic deflection of the rolls and assume that the coefficient of...
The type of weld represented by the shaded region in the figure is
Match the following products with the suitable manufacturing process
The height (in mm) for a 125 mm sine bar to measure a taper of 27°32′ on a flat work piece is ____________ (correct to three decimal places).
It is desired to make a product having T-shaped cross-section from a rectangular aluminium block. Which one of the following processes is expected to provide the highest strength o...
The percentage scrap in a sheet metal blanking operation of a continuous strip of sheet metal as shown in the figure is ________ (correct to two decimal places).
A block of length 200 mm is machined by a slab milling cutter 34 mm in diameter. The depth of cut and table feed are set at 2 mm and 18 mm/minute, respectively. Considering the app...
Two cutting tools with tool life equations given below are being compared: Tool 1: VT^0.1 = 150 Tool 2: VT^0.3 = 300 where V is cutting speed in m/minute and T is tool life in minu...
It is desired to make a product having T-shaped cross - section from a rectangular aluminium block. Which one of the following processes is expected to provide the highest strength...
The part of a gating system which regulates the rate of pouring of molten metal is
The welding process which uses a blanket of fusible granular flux is
A cylindrical job with diameter of $$200$$ $$mm$$ and height of $$100$$ $$mm$$ is to be cast using modulus method of riser design. Assume that the bottom surface of cylindrical ris...
During the development of a product, an entirely new process plan is made based on design logic, examination of geometry and tolerance information. This type of process planning is...
In solid-state welding, the contamination layers between the surfaces to be welded are removed by
An aluminium alloy (density $$2600$$ $$kg/{m^3}$$ ) casting is to be produced. A cylindrical hole of $$100$$ $$mm$$ diameter and $$100$$ $$mm$$ length is made in the casting using...
The major difficulty during welding of aluminium is due to its
A rectangular hole of size $$100\,\,mm \times 50\,\,mm$$ is to be made on a $$5$$ $$mm$$ thick sheet of steel having ultimate tensile strength and shear strength of $$500$$ $$MPa$$...
In a single pass rolling process using $$410mm$$ diameter steel rollers, a strip of width $$140mm$$ and thickness $$8mm$$ undergoes $$10\% $$ reduction of thickness. The angle of b...
Two steel bars each of diameter $$10mm$$ are coaxially friction welded end to end at an axial pressure of $$200MPa$$ and rotational speed of $$400rpm$$. The coefficient of friction...
Two streams of liquid metal, which are not hot enough to fuse properly, result into a casting defect known as
In a single pass rolling operation, a $$20mm$$ thick plate with plate width of $$100mm$$, is reduced to $$18mm$$ thick. The roller radius is $$250mm$$ and rotational speed is $$10$...
Which of the following is a solid state welding process.
The force requirement in a blanking operation of low carbon steel sheet is $$5.0$$ $$kN.$$ The thickness of the sheet is $$'t'$$ and diameter of the blanked part is $$'d'.$$ For th...
Which of the following engineering materials is the most suitable candidate for hot chamber die casting
During the execution of a CNC part program block $$NO20\,\,\,\,GO2\,\,\,\,X45.0\,\,\,\,Y25.0\,\,\,\,R5.0.$$ The type of tool motion will be
In a rolling process, sheet of $$25$$ $$mm$$ thickness is rolled to $$20$$ $$mm$$ thickness. Roll is of diameter $$600$$ $$mm$$ and it rotates at $$100$$ $$rpm.$$ The roll strip co...
A good cutting fluid should have
Quality screw threads are produced by
A metal disc of $$20$$ $$mm$$ diameter is to be punched from a sheet of $$2$$ $$mm$$ thickness. The punch and the die clearance is $$3\% $$. The required punch diameter is
In blanking operation the clearance is provided on
The primary purpose of a sprue in a casting mold is to
In centrifugal casting, the lighter impurities are
In finish machining of an island on a casting with $$CNC$$ milling machine, an end mill with $$10$$ $$mm$$ diameter is employed. The corner points of the island are represented by...
A metal strip is to be rolled from an initial wrought thickness of $$3.5$$ $$mm$$ to a final rolled thickness of $$2.5$$ $$mm$$ in a single pass rolling mill having rolls of $$250$...
Welding of $$C40$$ steel plate of $$10mm$$ thickness required a current of $$16$$amps, while it was $$360$$amps when the plate thickness was increased by $$50\% $$. Estimate the we...
A wire of $$0.1mm$$ diameter is drawn from a rod of $$15mm$$ diameter dies giving reductions of $$20\% $$, $$40\% $$ and $$80\% $$ are available. For minimum error in the final siz...
Generally cylindrical parts produced by powder metallurgy should not have non uniform cross section and a length to diameter ratio exceeding . . . . . . . . . . . . . . .
Centrifugally casted products have
With reference to $$NC$$ machines, which of the following statements is wrong?
A milling cutter having $$10$$ teeth is rotating at $$100$$$$rpm$$. The table feed is set at $$50mm$$ per minute. The feed per tooth in $$mm$$ is
Manual metal arc welding is to be used for welding two plates each measuring $$800 \times 200 \times 19mm.$$ Given that Length of weld $$\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,$$$$\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\,\...
Minimum dimensional and form accuracy can be obtained in the cylinder bores of automobile engines if the bores are finished by
Gear hobbing produces more accurate gears than milling because in hobbing
In $$NC$$ part programming spindle speed of $$730rpm$$ will be coded by the magic - $$3$$ rule as
Cutting speed in grinding is set to a high value to