Complete GATE XE 2019 Paper 1 overview, original pages and practice · Timed previous-paper practice

Questions 127–129 of 175. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.

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Question 18

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In a unidirectional carbon fibre/vinyl ester composite, the ratio of the moduli of the carbon fibre to that of vinyl ester is 35 and the fibres take up 50% of the cross-section. The percentage of applied force taken up by the fibres is ______ % (round off to one decimal place).

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Question 19

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A 3 mm thick layer of softened poly(methyl methacrylate) at 190 °C is sandwiched between two flat parallel plates. A shear stress of 100 kPa is applied to the softened polymer. Assuming the softened polymer as a Newtonian fluid with an apparent viscosity of 3.9 × 10⁴ Pa s, the relative sliding velocity between the two plates is ____ mm s⁻¹ (round off to one decimal place).

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Question 20

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For ABN initiated polymerization of styrene, if both the monomer and initiator concentration are doubled, then the rate of polymerization increases by a factor of ______ (round off to two decimal places).

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