Mechanical Engineering Gate 2022 Set-1 Questions with Answer

Ques 27 GATE 2022 SET-1


Which of the following methods can improve the fatigue strength of a circular mild steel (MS) shaft?

A

Enhancing surface finish

B

Shot peening of the shaft

C

Increasing relative humidity

D

Reducing relative humidity


(a, b) is the correct answer.

Ques 28 GATE 2022 SET-1


A bracket is attached to a vertical column by means of two identical rivets U and V separated by a distance of 2a = 100 mm. The permissible shear stress of the rivet material is 50 MPa. If a load P = 10 kN is applied at an eccentricity e = 3√7 a, the minimum cross-sectional area of each rivet to avoid failure is?

A

800

B

25

C

100√7

D

200


(c) is the correct answer.

Ques 29 GATE 2022 SET-1


A square threaded screw is used to lift a load W by applying a force F. Efficiency of the square threaded screw is expressed as?

A

The ratio of work done by W per revolution to work done by F per revolution

B

W/F

C

F/W

D

The ratio of work done by F per revolution to work done by W per revolution


(a) is the correct answer.

Ques 30 GATE 2022 SET-1


A CNC worktable is driven in a linear direction by a lead screw connected directly to a stepper motor. The pitch of the lead screw is 5 mm. The stepper motor completes one full revolution upon receiving 600 pulses. If the worktable speed is 5 m/minute and there is no missed pulse, then the pulse rate being received by the stepper motor is?

A

20 kHz

B

10 kHz

C

3 kHz

D

15 kHz


(a) is the correct answer.

Ques 31 GATE 2022 SET-1


The type of fit between a mating shaft of diameter 25.0 mm and a hole of diameter 25.015 mm is __________.

A

Clearance

B

Transition

C

Interference

D

Linear


(a) is the correct answer.

Ques 32 GATE 2022 SET-1


Which of the following heat treatment processes is/are used for surface hardening of steels?

A

Carburizing

B

Cyaniding

C

Annealing

D

Carbonitriding


(a, b, d) is the correct answer.

Ques 33 GATE 2022 SET-1


Which of the following additive manufacturing technique(s) can use a wire as a feedstock material?

A

Stereolithography

B

Fused deposition modeling

C

Selective laser sintering

D

Directed energy deposition processes


(d) is the correct answer.

Ques 34 GATE 2022 SET-1


Electrochemical machining operations are performed with tungsten as the tool, and copper and aluminum as two different workpiece materials. Properties of copper and aluminum are given in the table below.

nore overpotentials, and assume that current efficiency is 100% for both the workpiece materials. Under identical conditions, if the material removal rate (MRR) of copper is 100 mg/s, the MRR of aluminum will be ________________ mg/s (round-off to two decimal places).


(166.67) is the correct answer.

Ques 35 GATE 2022 SET-1


Under orthogonal cutting condition, a turning operation is carried out on a metallic workpiece at a cutting speed of 4 m/s. The orthogonal rake angle of the cutting tool is 5º. The uncut chip thickness and width of cut are 0.2 mm and 3 mm, respectively. In this turning operation, the resulting friction angle and shear angle are 45º and 25º, respectively. If the dynamic yield shear strength of the workpiece material under this cutting condition is 1000 MPa, then the cutting force is ______________ N (round off to one decimal place).


(1333.3) is the correct answer.

Ques 36 GATE 2022 SET-1


A 1 mm thick cylindrical tube, 100 mm in diameter, is orthogonally turned such that the entire wall thickness of the tube is cut in a single pass. The axial feed of the tool is 1 m/minute and the specific cutting energy (u) of the tube material is 6 J/mm³. The power required to carry out this operation is _________ kW (round off to one decimal place).


(1.0) is the correct answer.

Ques 37 GATE 2022 SET-1


A 4 mm thick aluminum sheet of width w = 100 mm is rolled in a two-roll mill of roll diameter 200 mm each. The workpiece is lubricated with a mineral oil, which gives a coefficient of friction, µ=0.1. The flow stress (𝜎 ) of the material in MPa is 𝜎 =207+414 𝜀, where 𝜀 is the true strain. Assuming rolling to be a plane strain deformation process, the roll separation force (F) for maximum permissible draft (thickness reduction) is _________ kN (round off to the nearest integer).
Use:
is average flow stress, 𝐿 is roll-workpiece contact length, and ℎ J is the average sheet thickness.


(245) is the correct answer.

Ques 38 GATE 2022 SET-1


Two mild steel plates of similar thickness, in butt-joint configuration, are welded by gas tungsten arc welding process using the following welding parameters:

The filler wire feed rate is selected such that the final weld bead is composed of 60% volume of filler and 40% volume of plate material. The heat required to melt the mild steel material is 10 J/mm³. The heat transfer factor is 0.7 and melting factor is 0.6. The feed rate of the filler wire is __________ mm/s (round off to one decimal place).


(3.5) is the correct answer.

Ques 39 GATE 2022 SET-1


In the Fe-Fe3C phase diagram, the eutectoid composition is 0.8 weight % of carbon at 725 °C. The maximum solubility of carbon in α-ferrite phase is 0.025 weight % of carbon. A steel sample, having no other alloying element except 0.5 weight % of carbon, is slowly cooled from 1000 °C to room temperature. The fraction of pro-eutectoid α-ferrite in the above steel sample at room temperature is

A

0.387

B

0.864

C

0.475

D

0.775


(c) is the correct answer.

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