Production and Industrial Engineering
GATE PI year:2020 PYQs
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Questions 31–40 of 65. Imported answers require independent review unless marked reviewed.
Question 21
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The Bellman’s principle of optimality is related to
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The process capability ratio
is given byYour answerChoose one option.
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In a uniaxial tensile test on a specimen of a ductile material, the ultimate tensile strength is found to be 400 MPa and the elongation up to the maximum load is 25%. The true stress at the maximum load in MPa is __________.
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Suppose the control system of a fighter jet consists of three unrelated components in series, and it is desired to have 98% reliability of the system. If the reliability level of all the components is the same, then the reliability of each component (rounded off to three decimal places) is __________.
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The product structure tree in the figure below shows the components needed to assemble one unit of product P.

The number of units of component D needed to assemble 10 units of product P is __________.
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General solution of
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For the matrix
, the eigenvectors areYour answerChoose one option.
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A truss with two bars PR and QR, making angles
and
, respectively, with the vertical, is shown in the figure below. The connections at P, Q and R are hinged connections. The truss supports a body of weight
(in N) at R as shown. The tension in the bar QR (in N) is 
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The figure shows a beam of length
(in m) with a uniformly distributed transverse load of
(in N/m) acting over it. The width and depth of the beam cross section are
(in m) and
(in m), respectively. The magnitude of the maximum bending stress in the beam in N/m
is 
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The vertices of rectangle
are as follows in a 2-D CAD system.
The coordinates of the corresponding new vertices,
,
,
,
after translation of the rectangle along x-axis in the positive direction by 6 units and along y-axis in the positive direction by 3 units areYour answerChoose one option.
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