ISRO Scientist or Engineer Mechanical 2013

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A concentrated load is applied at the end of a cantilever as shown in Fig. The cross section of the beam is a square of side ‘a’ with a hole of dia ‘$$\frac{a}{2}$$’. The deflection at the tip of the cantilever is given by

A thick cylinder of inner dia ‘D’, wall thickness $$t_2$$ and length ‘L’ is sealed at its both ends with caps. The thickness of the cap is $$t_1$$. Allowable tensile yield stress = $$\sigma_y$$ and allowable shear stress = $$\tau_y$$. A gas is pumped into this cylinder at pressure ‘p’. The cap will yield in shear at circumference of diameter ‘D’ when the gas pressure applied is more than

An ‘SS’ tube is inserted into an ‘Al' tube.They are permently fixed at one end .The other end is attached to a rigid plate .A torque "T" is applied to the rigid plate .A torque "T" is applied to the rigid plate .The circumference of the 'Al' tube at dia 'D' at the plate end with respect to the fixed end rotates by a distance ....mm due to the TORQUE 'T'.The polar MOI & rigidity modulus of Al & ss are $$J_{Al},G_{Al}$$ and $$J_{ss},G_{ss}$$ respectively

A rod of 20 dia is fixed to the ceiling of a roof on one end.: A rotor of 50 kg mass is attached to the free end with bearings. The CG of the rotor is 10 mm away from the shaft axis. The rotor is rotating at 600 rpm. The max tensile stress (in N/sq.mm)in the rod is nearly equal to

An automotive engine having a mass of 135 kg is supported on springs with linear characteristics. Each of the 2 front springs have stiffness of 3 $$\frac{MN}{m}$$ while the stiffness of each of 2 rear springs is 4.5 $$\frac{MN}{m}$$ The engine speed (rpm) at which resonanceis likely to occur is

A weighing $$\frac{m}{c}$$ consists of a 2 kg pan resting on a spring having linear characteristics. In this condition of resting on the spring, the length of spring is 200mm. Whena20 kg massis placed _on the pan,the length of the spring becomes 100mm. The undeformed length Lin mm and the spring stiffness K in $$\frac{N}{m}$$are

A solid block ‘A’ wéighing ‘Q’ kg is resting on flat floor. A smooth cylinder ‘B’ weighing ‘P’ kg. is placed betweenthe solid A and the vertical wall as shownin fig. The friction between the cylinder, wail and the block A is negligible. The co-efficient of friction between the block A and floor is $$\mu$$ The minimum weight P required to disturb the block A is

A hydraulic jack is used to compress a spring as shown in the figure.Stiffness of spring is $$10^{5}$$ N/m By applying a pressure ‘p’ in the hydraulic cylinder, the spring gets compressed by 10 mm. The cross sectional area of the piston is 25 $$cm^{2}$$. The applied pressure‘p is

A small plastic boat loaded with pieces of steel rods is floating in a bath tub. If the cargo is , dumped in to the water, allowing the boatto float empty, the water level in the tub will

Froude number is significant in:

A tank 1.5m stands on trolly and is full of water. It has an orifice of diameter 0.1m at 0.3m from the bottom of the tank. If the orifice is suddenly opened and coefficient of discharge of the orifice is 0.60, then the propelling force on the trolley will be

A modelof a hydraulic turbine is tested at a head of 1/4™ of that under which the full scale turbine works. The diameter of the modelis half of that of the full scale turbine. if N is the RPM of the full scale turbine, then RPM of the modelwill be

Consider steady, incompressible and irrotational flow through a reducer in a horizontal pipe, where the diameter is reduced from 20 cm to 10 cm. The pressure in the 20 cm pipe just upstream of the reduceris 150 kPa . The fluid has a vapour pressure of 50 kPa and a specific weight of 5 kN/m$$^3$$’. Neglecting frictional effects, the maximum discharge (in m$$^3$$/sec) that can pass through the reducer without causing cavitations is

For the stability of a floating body, under the influence of gravity alone, which of the following is true?

A smooth pipe of diameter 200mm carries water. The pressure in the pipe at Section $$S_{1}$$ (elevation: 10m) is 50 kPa _ At section $$S_{2}$$ (elevation: 12 m ) the pressure is 20 kPa and velocity is 2 $$\frac{m}{sec}$$. Density of water is 1000 $$\frac{kg}{m^{3}}$$ and acceleration due to gravity is 9.8 $$\frac{m}{sec}$$ ? . Which of the following is true?

The 2-D flow with velocity $$\overline{u} = (x + 2y + 2)1 + (4 - y)j$$ is

A venturimeter. of 20mm throat diameter is used to measure the velocity of water.in a horizontal pipe of 40mm diameter. If the pressure difference between the pipe and throat sections is found to be 30 kPa, then, neglecting frictional losses, the flow velocity is

A room contains 60 kg of air at 100 kPa and $$15^\circ$$C. The room has a 250-W refrigerator (the refrigerator consumes 250 W of electricity when running), a 120-W TV, a 1-kW electric resistance heater, and a 50-W fan. During a cold winter day,it is observed that the refrigerator, the TV, the fan, and the electric resistance heater are running continuously but the air temperature in the room remains constant. The rate of heat loss from the room that day is

An adiabatic heat exchangeris used to heat cold water at $$15^\circ$$ C entering at a rate of 5 kg/s by hot air at $$90^\circ$$ C entering also at rate of 5 kg/s If the exit temperature of hot air is $$20^\circ$$ C, the exit temperature of cold water is

For given combined radiative and convective heat transfer coefficient ‘h;’ and given thermal conductivity kCritical thickness of insulation for cylinder and sphere is given as

A spherical thermocouple junction of diameter 0.706 mm is to be used for the measurement of temperature of a gas streaim. The convective heat transfer co-efficient on the bead surface is 400 W/m$$^2$$K. Thermo-physical properties of thermocouple material are k = 20 W/mK , C = 400 J/kg K and r = 8500 kg/m$$^3$$ . If the thermocouple initially at $$30^\circ$$ C is placed in a hot stream of $$300^\circ$$ C, the time taken by the bead to reach $$298^\circ$$ C, is

Twoinsulating materials of thermal conductivity K and 2K are available for Jagging a pipe carrying a hotfluid. If the radial thickness of each material is the same.

The definition of 1 K as per the internationally accepted temperature scale is

Select statements from List II matching the processes in List I. Enter your answer as , B if the correct choice for (1) is (A) and that for (2) is (B)

In a radiative heat transfer, a gray surface is one

A system undergoes a state change from 1 to 2. According the second law of thermodynamicsfor the process to be feasible, the entropy change, S2 — S1 of the system

For the same inlet and outlet temperatures of hot and cold fluids, the Log Mean Temperature Difference (LMTD)is

In a heat exchanger, the hot liquid enters with a temperature of $$180^\circ$$ and leaves at $$160^\circ$$ C. C. The cooling fluid enters at $$30^\circ$$C and leaves at $$110^\circ$$ C. The capacity ratio of the heat exchanger is

A system of massesrotating in different parallel planesis in dynamic balance if —

Logarithmic decrement of a dampedsingle degree of freedom system is 6. If stiffness of the spring is doubled and massis madehalf, then logarithmic decrementof the new
system will be equal to

For a particular load distribution and support condition in a beam of length “L, bending momentat any section ‘x’ (O <x <L)is given by $$M(x) = Ax-Bx^{2}$$, where A and B are constants. The shear force in the beam will be zero at ‘x’ equal to

Two objects P & Q are traveling horizontally with velocity of 8 m/sec & 6 m/sec from left to right. They are separated by a distance of 15 m. The massof the objects are 3
kg and 5kg. lfthe coefficient of restitution is 0.7 what is the velocity $$(\frac{m}{s})$$ of P and Q after impact and when (seconds) and where (metres) will they impact with respect _to initial positioning of Q. The corresponding answersare respectively

The cross section of a compound bar 1 m long is as shown in figure. If the temperature is raised by $$80^\circ$$ C determine the stresses (in N/mm$$^2$$) in each metal

A short column of external diameter D and internal diameter d is subjected to a compressive load P acting with an eccentricity ‘e’. If the stresses at one of the extreme fiber is zero then the eccentricity has to be

A block brake with 400 mm diameter is used to brake a torque of 100 Nm as shown 60 in the figure. If the coefficient friction is 0.25 at the brake surface what is the value of force F to be applied at the end of the lever.

A titanium sheet of 5.0 mm thickness is cut by wire-cut EDM process using a wire of 1.0 mm diameter. A uniform spark gap of 0.5 mm on bothsidesof the wire is maintained during
cutting operation.If the feed rate of the wire into the sheet is 20 mm/min, the material removal rate $$(in \frac{mm^{3}}{min})$$ will be

Diamondcutting tools are not recommended for machining of ferrous metals due to

Duringthe execution of a CNC part program block N020 G02 X45.0 Y25.0 R5.0 the type of tool motion will be

In a single point turning operation with a cemented carbide and steel combination having a Taylor exponentof 0.25,if the cutting speed is halved, then toollife will become

Work hardening strengthensan alloy by

An Aluminium object is made of a solid cone of height ‘h’ and base diameter D attached toa solid cylinder of diameter D and height ‘$$\frac{h}{2}$$’ as shown in figure. It is kept inclined touching to a vertical wall at point ‘A’ and hinged at. point B cr the floor. The object stays in this inclined position without going to vertical position (axis. perpendicular to the floor), only if. $$\theta$$ is less than

A hollow MSpipe is kept ona smoothstraight edge with the pipe mid pointsitting on it. A load “W’ Newtonsis applied at the ends which is keeping the pipe balanced in the horizontal condition. what is the safe maximum load ‘W’that can be applied withoutyielding the tube. Consider the self weight of the tube as ‘p’ $$\frac{N}{m}$$

Diameter of the pipe is 'd', Youngs modulus of pipe is E, Allowable yield stress is $$\sigma$$

A car crashes against a wall. Theinitial velocity at collision is 15$$\frac{m}{sec}$$ and the velocity after collision is 2.6$$\frac{m}{sec}$$ in the opposite direction. The massof the car is 1500kg. what is the average force exerted on the automobile bumperif collision lasts for 0.15 seconds.

Differential equation for the variation of amountof sait ‘x’ in a tank is given by :$$(\frac{dx}{dt} )+ (\frac{x}{20})$$ = 10. where x is in kg and t is in minutes. Assuming that at time zero thereis no salt in the tank, find the time at which the amountofsalt increases to 100kg

A material is dimensionally stable at room temperature if its glass transition temperature $$(T_{g})$$ is

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