Objective Questions – Metals and Alloys

Pick out the most appropriate option: Answers are marked bold ; 1. Mild steel is an alloy of iron and carbon with percentage of carbon ranging...

Alloys of Nickel

ALLOYS OF NICKEL (i) German silver. It is a cupro nickel to which zinc has been added. A typical composition is 60% copper, 30% nickel...

Non Ferrous Metals and Alloys

Non Ferrous Metals and Alloys - Properties and Uses : Non-ferrous metals and alloys do not contain any significant quantity of iron. The most common...

Bronze and its types

Bronze ; Bronze is an alloy of copper and tin however commercial bronzes may contain other elements besides tin. In fact, alloys of copper with...

Advantages of NC/CNC Machines

CNC Machines have these advantages : High Repeatability and Precision e.g. Aircraft parts. Volume of production in CNC is very high Complex contours/surfaces need...

Diff B/w NC and CNC M/c

NC - Numeric Controlled and CNC - Computer Numeric Controlled Machines differ in these ways : The difference between NC and CNC is one...

Couplings

Couplings: Shaft couplings are used for connecting two shafts end for transmitting rotary motion directly from one shaft to another. They act as a one...

Engineering Drawing

What is Engineering Drawing ? Engineering Drawing is a language to express details of any particular machine part, tool, process of working or assembling and...

Lathe Machine Parts

The main parts of a Lathe Machine are : - Headstock - Tailstock - Carriage - Cross-slide - Compound slide - Bed - Quick change gearbox - Legs - Feed shaft - Lead screw The...

Trignometric Ratios

These are most commonly used trigonometric ratios ; Also, these relations need to be remembered, sin (90° – A) = cos A,      cos (90°...