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For sand-casting a steel rectangular plate with dimensions 80 mm × 120 mm × 20 mm, a cylindrical riser has to be designed. The height of the riser is equal to its diameter. The total solidification time for the casting is 2 minutes. In Chvorinov’s law for the estimation of the total solidification time, exponent is to be taken as 2. For a solidification time of 3 minutes in the riser, the diameter (in mm) of the riser is ______ (correct to two decimal places).

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GATE ME 2018 · Paper 2

Mechanical Engineering · Original paper archive

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Mechanical Engineering
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Numerical answer (NAT)
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2 marks

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