Technological Institute of the Philippines

Arlegui, Quiapo, Manila

College of Engineering - ECE Department

GEAS Reviewer
(Engineering Materials, Thermodynamics, Chemistry)

COMPILED BY
MAKILAN, ANICETO Jr. L.

JANUARY 2008

ENGINEERING MATERIALS
1. What property of an element is determined by the number of protons in its
nucleus?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Atomic weight
Atomic number
Isotopes
Atomic Mass unit

Answer: B
2. What are considered as the building blocks for engineering materials?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Atoms
Elements
Compounds
Matter

Answer: A
3. What refers to a metal combined with one or more other elements?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Mixture
Compound
Alloy
Molecule

Answer: C
4. What do you call metals reinforced by ceramic or other materials usually in fiber
form?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Metalloids
Matrix Alloys
Metal Lattices
Metal Matrix Composites

Answer: D

5. The engineering materials known as plastics are more correctly called

a.
b.
c.
d.

Polyvinyl Chloride
Polymers
Polyethylene
Mers

Answer: B
6. What is a combination of two or more materials that has properties that the
components material do not have by themselves?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Compound
Composite
Mixture
Matrix

Answer: B
7. What physical property of a material that refers to the point at which a material
liquefies on heating or solidifies on cooling?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Melting point
Curie Point
Refractive index
Specific heat

Answer: A
8. What physical property of a material that refers to the temperature at which
ferromagnetic materials can no longer be magnetized by outside forces?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Melting point
Curie Point
Refractive index
Specific heat

Answer: B

9. What physical property of a material refers to the amount of weight gain (%)
experienced in a polymer after immersion in water for a specified length of time
under a controlled environment?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Dielectric strength
Electric Resistivity
Water Absorption
Thermal conductivity

Answer: C
10. What physical property of material refers to the rate of heat flow per unit time in a
homogeneous material under steady state conditions per unit area, unit
temperature gradient in a direction perpendicular to the area?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Thermal expansion
Thermal conductivity
Heat distortion temperature
Water absorption

Answer: B
11. What is the absolute value of the ratio of the transverse strain to the
corresponding axial strain in a body subjected to uniaxial stress?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Poissons Ratio
Eulers Ratio
Refractive index
Dielectric index

Answer: A
12. What physical property of a material refers to the highest potential difference that
an insulating material of a given thickness can withstand for a specified time
without occurrence of electrical breakdown through its bulk?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Thermal expansion
Conductivity
Dielectric Strength
Electric Resisitivity

Answer: C

13. What physical property of a material refers to the ratio of the amount of heat
required to raise the temperature of a unit mass of a substance 1 degree to the heat
required to raise the same mass of water to 1 degree?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Specific Heat
Latent Heat
Heat of Fusion
Heat of Fission

Answer: A
14. What refers to the heat needed to change the temperature of the substances
without changing its phases?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Latent heat
Sensible heat
Specific heat
entropy

Answer: B
15. What physical property of a material refers to the temperature at which a polymer
under a specified load shows a polymer under a specified load shows a specified
amount of deflection?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Curie temperature
Specific Heat
Heat Distortion Temperature
Thermal Conductivity

Answer: C
16. What mechanical property of a material refers to the nominal stress at fracture in a
tension test at constant load and constant temperature?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Creep strength
Stress rapture strength
Compressive yield strength
Hardness

Answer: B

17. What mechanical property of a material refers to the resistance to plastic

deformation?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Rigidity
Plasticity
Ductility
Hardness

Answer: D
18. What is obtained by repeatedly loading a specimen at given stress levels until it
fails?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Elastic Limit
Endurance limit or fatigue strength of material
Creep
All of these

Answer: B
19. What dimensional property of a material refers to the deviation from edge
straightness?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Lay
Out of Flat
Camber
Waviness

Answer: C
20. What dimensional property of a material refers to a wavelike variation from a
perfect surface, generally much wider in spacing and in higher in amplitude than
surface roughness?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Lay
Waviness
Surface finish
Out of flat

Answer: B

21. Wood is composed of chains of cellulose molecules bonded together by another

natural polymer called
a.
b.
c.
d.

Plastic
Lignin
mer
additive

Answer: B
22. What is a polymer production process that involves forming a polymer chain
containing two different monomers?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Copolymerization
Blending
Alloying
Cross-linking

Answer: A
23. What is the generic name of a class of polymer which is commercial known as
nylon?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Polyacetals
Polyamide
Cellulose
Polyester

Answer: B
24. What is a method of forming polymer sheets or films into three-dimensional
shapes, in which the sheets is clamped on the edge, heated until it soften and sags,
drawn in contact with the mold by vacuum, and cooled while still in contact with
the mold?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Calendering
Blow molding
Thermoforming
Solid phase forming

Answer: C

25. What is a process of forming continuous shapes by forcing a molten polymer

through a metal die?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Calendering
Thermoforming
Lithugraphy
Extrusion

Answer: D
26. What chemical property of a material which refers to its ability to resist
deterioration by chemical or electrochemical reactions with environment?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Stereospecificity
Corrosion resistance
Conductivity
Electrical Resistance

Answer: B
27. What refers to the tendency for polymers and molecular material to form with an
ordered spatial, three-dimensional arrangement of monomer molecules?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Stereospecificity
Corrosion resistance
Retentivity
Spatial Configuration

Answer: A
28. What is the ratio of the maximum load in a tension test to the original crosssectional area of the test bar?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Tensile strength
Yield strength
Shear strength
Flexual strength

Answer: A

29. What is the ratio of stress to strain in a material loaded within its elastic range?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Poissons ratio
Refractive index
Modulus of elasticity
Percent elongation

Answer: C
30. What is measure of rigidity
a.
b.
c.
d.

Stiffness
Hardness
Strength
Modulus of elasticity

Answer: D
31. The greatest stress which a material is capable of withstanding without deviation
from acceptable stress to strain is called
a.
b.
c.
d.

elongation
proportional limit
yield point
elastic limit

Answer: B
32. What refers to the stress at which a material exhibits a specified deviation from
proportionality of stress and strain?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Tensile strength
Shear strength
Yield strength
Flexural strength

Answer: C
33. What is the amount of energy required to fracture a given volume of material?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Impact strength
Endurance limit
Creep strength
Stress rupture strength

Answer: A

34. What mechanical property of a material which is a time-dependent permanent

strain under stress?
a.
b.
c.
d.

elongation
elasticity
creep
rupture

Answer: C
35. In tensile testing, the increase in the gage length measured after the specimen
fractures within the gage length is called
a.
b.
c.
d.

Percent elongation
Creep
Elasticity
Rupture

Answer: A
36. What is the resistance of a material to plastic deformation/
a.
b.
c.
d.

Hardness
Creepage
Stiffness
Rigidity

Answer: A
37. What is the maximum stress below which a material can theoretically endure an
infinite number of stress cycles?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Endurance state
Endurance test
Endurance limit
Endurance strength

Answer: C

38. What is a substance that attracts piece of iron?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Conductor
Semiconductor
Magnet
All of the choices

Answer: C
39. Which of the following is a natural magnet?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Steel
Magnesia
Lodestone
Soft iron

Answer: C
40. Which of the following material has permeability, slightly less than that pf free
space?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Paramagnetic materials
Non-magnetic materials
Ferromagnetic materials
Diamagnetic materials

Answer: D
41. What materials has permeabilities slighter greater than that of free space?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Paramagnetic materials
Non-magnetic materials
Ferromagnetic materials
Diamagnetic materials

Answer: A
42. Which of the following materials have very high permeabilities?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Paramagnetic materials
Non-magnetic materials
Ferromagnetic materials
Diamagnetic materials

Answer: C

43. What is ASTM test for tension is designated for plastics?

a.
b.
c.
d.

A370
D638
E292
C674

Answer: B
44. What is ASTM test for compression is designated for plastics?
a.
b.
c.
d.

D638
D695
D790
D732

Answer: B
45. What is ASTM test for shear strength is designated for plastics?
a.
b.
c.
d.

D732
D790
D695
D638

Answer: A
46. What is the ASTM tension testing designation for standard methods of steel
products?
a.
b.
c.
d.

A370
E345
E8
C674

Answer: A

47. What do you call a polymer without additive and without blending with another
polymer?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Homopolymer
Ethenic polymer
Polyethylene
Copolymer

Answer: A
48. A large molecule with two alternating mers is known as
a.
b.
c.
d.

monomer
elastomer
mers
copolymer or interpolymer

Answer: D
49. What term is used to describe a polymer that has rubberlike properties?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Vulcanizer
Elasticmer
Polychloroprene
Elastomer

Answer: D
50. What is defined as an alloy of iron and carbon, with the carbon being restricted
within certain concentration limits?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Steel
Wrought iron
Cast Iron
Tendons

Answer: A
51. What type of steel has carbon as its principal hardening agent?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Alloy steel
Stainless steel
Galvanized steel
Carbon steel

Answer: D

52. What type of steel has 0.8% of carbon and 100% pearlite?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Austenite
Eutectoid
Hyper-eutectoid
Stainless steel

Answer: B
53. Galvanized steel are steel products coated with
a.
b.
c.
d.

Carbon
Sulfur
Zinc
Nickel

Answer: C
54. The use of acids to remove oxides and scale on hot-worked steels is known as
a.
b.
c.
d.

Tempering
Picking
Machining
Galvanizing

Answer: B
55. What do you call tin mill steel without a coating?
a.
b.
c.
d.

White plate
Tin steel free
Black plate
Dechromate tin

Answer: C

56. What combination of elements has high electrical resistance high corrosion
resistance and high strength at red heat temperature making it useful in resisitance
heating?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Aluminum bronze
Nichrome
Hastelloy
Alnico

Answer: B
57. A steel cannot qualify for stainless prefix until it has at least how many percent of
Chromium?
a.
b.
c.
d.

10%
20%
25%
5%

Answer: A
58. What do you add to compensate for the remaining high iron-oxide content of the
steel?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Deorizers
Deoxidizers
Deterrent
Detoxifiers

Answer: B
59. Which of the following cast irons is high carbon, iron-carbon-silicon alloy?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Gray iron
Malleable iron
White iron
Ductile iron

Answer: A
60. Which of the following cast irons is a heat-treated for ductility?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Gray iron
Malleable iron
White iron
Ductile iron

Answer: B
61. Which cast iron is hard and wear resistant?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Gray iron
Malleable iron
White iron
Ductile iron

Answer: C
62. What is considered as the general purpose, oldest type and widely used cast iron?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Gray iron
Malleable iron
White iron
Ductile iron

Answer: A
63. What is the advantage of quench hardening?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Improved strength
Hardness
Wear characteristics
All of the choices

Answer: D
64. What is the lowest-temperature diffusion hardening process and does not require a
quench?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Carburizing
Tempering
Nitriding
Heat-treating

Answer: C

65. Which of the following is a requirement for hardening a steel?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Heating at proper temperature

Sufficient carbon content
Adequate Quench
All of the choices

Answer: D
66. What field of study encompasses the procurement and production of metals?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Metallurgy
Geology
Material Science
Metalgraphy

Answer: A

67. What do you call earth and stone mixed with the iron oxides?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Hematite
Magnetite
Gangue
Ore

Answer: C
68. What is a coal that has been previously burned in an oxygen poor environment
a.
b.
c.
d.

Tuyene
Coke
Diamond
Hematite

Answer: B
69. What is the most common alloying ingredient in copper?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Brass
Nickel
Zinc
Aluminum

Answer: C

70. What refers to the case hardening process by which the carbon content of the steel
near the surface of a part is increased?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Carburidizing
Annealing
Normalizing
Martempering

Answer: A
71. What is the most undesirable of all the elements commonly found in steels?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Sulfur
Phosphorus
Silicon
Manganese

Answer: B
72. What impurity in steel can cause red shortness, which means the steel becomes
unworkable in high temperature?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Sulfur
Silicon
Manganese
Phosphorus

Answer: A
73. What is the process of producing a hard surface in a steel having sufficiently high
carbon content to respond to hardening by rapid cooling of the surface?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Cyaniding
Nitriding
Flame hardening
Induction hardening

Answer: C

74. What is the most common reinforcement for polymer composites?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Boron
Ceramic
Graphite
Glass Fiber

Answer: D
75. In electrochemistry, oxidation is a lost of
a.
b.
c.
d.

Ion
Electron
Proton
Anode

Answer: B
76. What is the process of putting back the lost electrons to convert the ion back to
metal
a.
b.
c.
d.

Oxidation
Corrosion
Reduction
Ionization

Answer: C
77. What do call a fluid that conducts electricity?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Electrolyte
Water
Solution
Acid

Answer: A
78. What is defined as a local corrosion damaged characterized by surface cavities?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Cracking
Pitting
Cavitation
Erosion

Answer: B

79. What do you call the removal of zinc from brasses?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Dezincification
Graphitization
Stabilization
Dealloying

Answer: A
80. What is the scaling off a surface in flakes or layers as the result of corrosion?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Expoliation
Corrosion Fatigue
Scaping
Fretting

Answer: A
81. What refers to a shape achieved by a allowing a liquid to solidify in a mold?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Casting
Molding
Forming
All of the choices

Answer: A
82. What Cast Iron has nodular of spheroidal graphite?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Ductile iron
Wrought Iron
Gray Iron
White Iron

Answer: A
83. What is a process for making glass-reinforced shapes that can be generated by
pulling resin-impregnated glass strands through a die?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Continuous pultrusion
Bulk molding
Vacuum bag forming
Resin transfer molding

Answer: A

84. What is a natural substance that makes up a significant portion of all plant life?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Cellulose
Polyacetal
Polycarbonates
Polyimides

Answer: A
85. What term is used to denote a family of thermosetting polymers that are reaction
products of alcohols and acids?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Alkaline
Alkydes
Alcocids
Aldehyde

Answer: B
86. What refers to the application of any process whereby the surface of steel is
altered so that it will become hard?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Carburizing
Casehardening
Annealing
Surfacehardening

Answer: B
87. What is the chief ore of tin?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Cassiterite
Bauxite
llmanite
Galena

Answer: A

88. What is the chief ore of zinc

a.
b.
c.
d.

Cassiterite
Bauxite
Sphalerite
Galena

Answer: C
89. What is the chief ore of titanium?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Cassiterite
Bauxite
llmanite
Galena

Answer: C
90. What is a mixture of gibbsite and diaspore of which aluminum is derived?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Bauxite
Rutile
Galena
Sphalerite

Answer: A
91. The term bronze is used to designate any alloy containing
a.
b.
c.
d.

Copper and zinc

Aluminum and iron
Copper and aluminum
Copper and tin

Answer: D
92. The term brass is used to designate an alloy containing
a.
b.
c.
d.

Copper and zinc

Aluminum and iron
Copper and aluminum
Copper and tin

Answer: A

93. What is the most abundant metal in nature?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Aluminum
Steel
Iron
Copper

Answer: A
94. What steel relief process is used with hypoeutectoid steels to change martenite
into pearlite?
a.
b.
c.
d.

Tempering
Normalizing
Annealing
Spheroidizing

Answer: A
95. The Portland cement is manufactured from the following elements except
a.
b.
c.
d.

lime
silica
alumina
asphalt

Answer: D
96. What is another term for Tempering?

a.
b.
c.
d.

Recrystallization
Annealing
Spheroidizing
Drawing or toughening

Answer: D
97. All are steel surface hardening processes except
a.
b.
c.
d.

Carburizing
Flame Hardening
Nitriding
Annealing

Answer: D

98. The pressure which a substances is capable of supporting without fracturing

a.
b.
c.
d.

Shear Stress
Yield Strength
Yield Stress
Shear Modulus

Answer: C
99. The dimensionless parameter describing deformation
a.
b.
c.
d.

Energy
Work
Strain
Stress

Answer: C

100.

The general law of mechanics that stress is directly proportional to strain

a.
b.
c.
d.

Mean Speed Theorem

Poisson Ratio
Charles Theorem
Hookes Law

Answer: D