ENGINEERING METALLURGY
Part.A
UNIT – I
1) What are the effects of crystal structure and atomic radii on formation of solid solution between two
metallic elements?
2) Define peritectic and eutectic reactions
3) Distiguish between hypo eutectoid steels and huper eutectoid steels
4) Define peritectoid reactions
5) State Gibb’s phase rule.
6) What is the structure of pearlite?
7) What do you understand by allotropy?
8) What are the possible microstructures of iron & steel?
9) What is the structure of martensite?
10) What is phase rule and what does it indicate?
11) What do you understand by substitutional solid solutions?
12) What are interstitial solid solutions?
13) Describe cooling curves for pure metal and metal mixture of two.
14) State Hume Rothery’s rules.
15) Carbon when dissolved in iron forms interstitial solid solution.explain.
16) What are the three variables that determine the microstructure of an alloy?
17) What is cast iron?
18) What is cementite?
19) What is solid solution? Specify the types of solid solution.
20) State Lever rule.
22) Write the peritectic reaction in Fe-F3C diagram.
23) Classify steel.
24) What are the effects of crystal structure and atomic radii on formation of solid solution between two
metallic elements?
25) Define Peritectic and Eutectoid reactions.
26) What is an alloy?
27) Define solute and solvent.
28) Explain the Substitutional solid Solution.
29) Explain the Interstial solid Solution.
30) What is phase diagram? and its importance.
31) Differentiate between eutectic and eutectoid.
32) Differentiate between peritectic and peritectoid.
33) What is mean by "allotropy of iron"?
34) Define ferrite and austenite.
35) Define cementite, pearlite.
36) Define martensite, bainite.
37) Differentiate between steel and cast iron.
38) . What is meant by hypo eutectoid, hypereutectoid steel?
39) What is meant by hypo eutectic, hyper eutectic C.I?
40) What are cooling curves?
41) Drawn the cooling curve for the pure metal, binary solid solution and binary eutectic system?
UNIT – II
1. A low carbon steel in the normalized condition is stronger than the same steel in the annealed
condition why?
2. Case carburizing heat treatment is not generally carried out for medium carbon steels why?
3. What is the need for providing a tempering treatment after quench hardening of steels?
4. What is the principal of surface hardening in induction hardening process
5. Define hardenability
6. What is nitriding?
7. What defects can occurs in a heat treated component
8. What is carburizing
9. What is cyaniding
10. What are the various types of case hardening
11. Define critical cooling rate
12. What is flame hardening
13. What are the possible remedies to overcome the defects occurred during heat treatment
14. What is heat treatment
15. What is the use of time-temperature transformation curves?
16. What are the different methods through which the purpose of heat treatment may be served?
17. What is a quenching process
18. Mention a few quenching media
19. Is hardening a two stage process
20. What is the purpose of annealing and normalizing a metal
21. Why tempering as follows after hardening.
UNIT-III
1. Compare the martensite that is formed in maraging steels with the martensite that is formed in carbon
steels?
2. What is the main strengthening mechanism involved in high strength aluminium alloys? & define it
3. Distinguish between gray cast irons& spheriodal grapliete cast irons in terms of microstrures &
mechanical properties.
4. what is the composition of 18/4/1 type high speed steels
5. How does electrical resistivity vary with composition of alloying elements?
6. What are the variables that affect keep resistant materials?
7. Give the classification of plain carbon steels
8. Name any 3 high resistivity alloys
9. Mention the properties of silver
10. What is chilled C.I
11. Give the classification of cast iron
12. What are super hand materials?
13. Write any four hardness inhibiting elements for steel.
14. Where do we use maraging steel?
15. Explain the term precipitation hardening
16. List the basic requirements of bearing metals.
17. Name any four major alloys of copper
18. Write the application of cupronickel.
19. List any four bearing alloys?
20. What is babbit metal?
UNIT-IV
1. Name the four ethnic polymers (polymers that have the basic monomers structure of ethylene).
2. What are the important uses of alumina & silicon nitride?
3. Write the molecular structure of either PF polymer (or) UF polymer.
4. Give two examples of particulate reinforced metal – matrix composites.
5. Define polymer.
6. What is PVC & PVDF?
7. Define PB.
8. What is meant by polyamides?
9. Explain how polymers are formed from ethylene monomer.
10. What factors influence the final properties of composites?
11. Write a few characteristics 0f polymers.
12. Write the chemical formula for PVC.
13. What is nylon 6/6?
14. What is PTFE?
15. What are the biomaterials available? Define biomaterial.
16. Mention some of the applications of biopolymers.
17. Give examples for thermo set & thermo plastic polymers.
18. Define the term “composites
19. Write the major types of composites.
20. Explain MMC & FRC.
UNITV
1) Distinguish between slip & twinning.
2) How will you express the deformation characteristics of a material through tension test?
3) Define endurance limit in fatigue test.
4) What properties are determined from tension testing of metallic products?
5) What is meant by ductile fracture? & give it example.
6) Define stiffness
7) Mention some mechanical testing carried out on materials
8) Define toughness.
9) Define brittle fracture. & give it example
10) How is hardness tested?
11) State the different causes of fatigue failure.
12) When does Hook’s law appear to fail?
13) What is critical resolved stress?
14) What is micro hardness?
15) What are the simple strain tests that can be applied to ascertain the mechanical characteristics of metals?
16) What is poisson’s ratio?
17) What is hardness? is there any relation between hardness &tensile strength.
18) What is plastic deformation?
19) How will you account for the difference in observed & theoretical shear strengths?
20) What do you understand by work hardening?
21) What is creep?
