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This set of Machine Design Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses on Machine Design Set 3

Q1 | A self-socking screw is one which
  • Has locking arrangement
  • Has a hole drilled through for inserting locking pin
  • Has coefficient of friction equal to or greater than the tangent of the load angle
  • Has fine pitch screw threads
  • None of the above
Q2 | A taper bearing has
  • Tapered roller
  • Tapered inner race
  • Tapered shaft
  • Tapered cage
  • Tapered outer race
Q3 | Resistance to fatigue of a material is measured by
  • Modulus of rigidity
  • Electricity parameters
  • Endurance limit
  • Elastic limit
  • Youngs modulus
Q4 | Wing screws are used where
  • tight grip is essential
  • frequently manual locking and unlocking is necessary
  • stress reversal is severe
  • high torque is needed for tightening
  • Increasing the diameter of threaded portion
Q5 | Maximum gear ratio can be expected in case of
  • Spur gears
  • Worm and worm wheel
  • Helical gears
  • Straight bevel gears
  • Double helical gears
Q6 | The edges of boiler plates for fullering and caulking are bevelled at an angle of
  • 60?
  • 45?
  • 70?
  • 30?
  • 80?
Q7 | Spring index is
  • Load carrying capacity of a spring
  • The ratio of coil diameter to wire diameter
  • The ratio of coil diameter to wire diameter
  • An indication of the equality of springs
  • The ratio of free length to that under design load
Q8 | Regenerative braking is used on
  • Earth moving machines
  • Heavy duty trucks
  • Electric locomotives
  • Diesel locomotives
  • Steam locomotives
Q9 | The plastic section modulus is
  • the ratio of plastic moment capacity of a section to the yield moment
  • Increasing the diameter of threaded portion
  • the ratio of moment of inertia to radius of gyration
  • the ratio of plastic moment capacity to the field stress
  • area multiplied by the radius of gyration
Q10 | All of the following statements are false except
  • The pitch of a sinle threaded screw is equal to the lead
  • In a flange coupling, the bolts are subjected to compressive stress
  • Oldham coupling is used for connecting piston rod of a steam engine to the cross head
  • The resilience of a bolt may be increased by decreasing its shank diameter
  • Increasing the diameter of threaded portion
Q11 | Neglecting bending, for a parallel load on a fillet weld of equal legs the plane of maximum shear occurs at
  • 45?
  • 15?
  • 60?
  • 30?
  • 22
Q12 | In watches and gramophones, which spring is most commonly used
  • Flat spiral spring
  • torsion helical spring
  • conical helical spring
  • none of the above
  • Cast steel
Q13 | The edge of the plates for boilers and tanks are usually bevelled at an angle of 80?
  • To reduce stress concentration
  • For safety
  • To facilitate joining
  • For fullering and caulking
  • None of the above
Q14 | The basic design stress adopted for the design of light gauge steel members is
  • the stress at limit of proportionality
  • the yield stress divided by 1.85
  • the yied stress
  • the permissible stress
  • Increasing the diameter of threaded portion
Q15 | Lewis equation in ears is used to evaluate
  • Tensile stress in bending
  • Compressive stress in bending
  • Creep stress
  • Endurance limit
  • Shear stress on flank
Q16 | If a machine member is loaded in such a way that the three principal stresses at a point are 600 kg/cm2 tension, 800 kg/cm2 compression and zero. The maximum shear stress at the point will be
  • 400 kg/cm2
  • 800 kg/cm2
  • 600 kg/cm2
  • 1000 kg/cm2
  • 200 kg/cm2
Q17 | In V-belt drive the belt touches
  • At bottom
  • At sides only
  • Both at bottom as well as sides
  • Anywhere
  • None of the above
Q18 | Ball bearing type screws
  • Sliding friction is replaced by rolling friction
  • There is a ball bearing provided on the screwed shafts
  • Are self-locking
  • Friction is more
  • Have load bearing capacity for more than vee threads
Q19 | Stub teeth are provided on gears
  • For high velocity ratios
  • Low noise
  • Large power transmission
  • Improved capability to withstand shock and vibrations
  • All of the above
Q20 | Which of the following is not the result of cold work?
  • Increased tensile strength
  • Increasing the diameter of threaded portion
  • Reduced ductility
  • Reduced shock resistance
  • Reduced hardness
Q21 | In a stone jaw crusher the main crank bearings are
  • Taper roller bearings
  • Roller bearings
  • Ball bearings
  • Double row ball bearings
  • Self-aligning ball bearings
Q22 | The piston of a internal combustion engine is subjected to
  • fully reversed stresses
  • repeated stresses
  • Increasing the diameter of threaded portion
  • partly repeated stresses
  • partly reversed stresses
Q23 | Spring stiffness is
  • Load carrying capacity of spring
  • Load per unit area of base
  • Load/cross-sectional area of spring
  • Load/unit deflection
  • None of the above
Q24 | In a central heating system, the seamless copper tubing used has an inside diameter of 20 mm and a wall thickness of 0.6 mm. For a maximum pressure of 1750 Kpa, when allowable stress is 225 Mpa, the safety factor will be
  • 7.7
  • 9.9
  • 3.3
  • 5.5
  • Increasing the diameter of threaded portion
Q25 | While designing for screw threads care should be taken to provide adequate length of engagement for the screw and nut threads so as to prevent failure of threads in
  • Tension
  • Compression
  • Torque
  • Shear
  • None of the above