Production and Industrial Engineering
GATE PI year:2017 PYQs
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Questions 21–30 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 21
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In powder metallurgy, the process ‘atomization’ refers to a method of
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The ideal stress-strain behavior for a completely brittle material during tensile testing up to failure is described by
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With reference to Iron-Carbon equilibrium phase diagram, the crystal structure of 0.3% plain carbon steel at 1,100 °C is
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If
is the modulus of elasticity in GPa,
is the shear modulus in GPa and
is the Poisson’s ratio of a linear elastic and isotropic material, the three terms are related asYour answerChoose one option.
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A machined surface with standard symbols indicating the surface texture is shown in the Figure. (All dimensions in the Figure are in micrometer).

The waviness height (in micrometer) of the surface is
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The improper integral
converges toYour answerChoose one option.
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The local minima of the function
in the range
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Runge-Kutta fourth order method is used to solve the differential equation
. If the initial value
and step-size is 0.1, then the value of
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Two machines are defective in a lot of 10. A combination of four machines is to be picked at a time from the lot. The maximum number of combinations that can be obtained without any defective machine is __________
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The simply-supported beam shown in the Figure is loaded symmetrically using two equal point loads
. The radius of curvature of the deflection-curve is 15 m for the portion of the beam that is subjected to pure bending. The vertical deflection (in mm) at point M, equidistant from both the supports, is __________ (up to two decimal places).

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