QUESTION BANK UNIT 4 & UNIT 5 PART-A

1. Define PB ratio. Give its importance in corrosion.

2. What is Pour-Baix diagram? What are its uses?
3. The mostly subjected part to corrosion in automobile is exhaust system -Justify.
4. What is hydrogen embrittlement?
5. Heat treatment can reduce corrosion Justify with examples.
6. Stainless steels are no longer stainless steels.- Justify.
7. Give the methods to reduce corrosion in stainless steels.
8. What are stabilizing elements? Give examples.
9. Define selective leaching.
10. Give the methods to determine corrosion rate.
11. Define strain hardening.
12. Check the yielding of a metal having yield strength= 500 MPa.Given: 1 = 50 MPa; 2 = 100
MPa; 3= - 50 MPa.
13. Define fracture toughness.
14. What is endurance limit?
15. Name mechanisms by which deformation of metals occurs.
16. List the four stages of failure analysis.
17. Define concentration polarization.
18. Define activation polarization.
19. Differentiate between true strain and engineering strain.
20. Define flow stress.
21. What is Mohr circle?
22. Differentiate between edge dislocation and screw dislocation.
23. List the uses of Mohrs circle.
24. What is pitting corrosion?
25. What is crevice corrosion?
PART-B

1.Explain galvanic corrosion with an example and give the methods to prevent it.

2. Discuss a method to determine the corrosion rate.

3. Explain the mechanism of stress corrosion cracking. Discuss the ways to avoid SCC.

4. Explain the mechanism of inter-granular corrosion. Discuss the ways to avoid IGC

5. Name the types of polarization and explain them with examples

6.Explain the various methods to prevent corrosion.

7. Discuss the following with examples: i) Pitting corrosion ii) Crevice corrosion

8. Explain the various stages of failure analysis.

 9.Explain the characteristics of ductile and brittle fractures.

10. Discuss the significance of fracture toughness in the design.

11. Explain how fatigue fracture occurs..

12 Explain the various stages of a creep and mechanisms involved in them.

13. Draw the Mohrs circles for a) uniaxial b) biaxial c) Triaxial state of stresses.

14. Explain the following yield criteria : i) Von Mises

ii) Tresca and compare them.

A material of yield strength of 600 MPa is subjected to a state of stress: 1 = 150 MPa; 2 = 100 MPa ;

3 - 50Ma.Check weather the material will yield or not,

15. Explain the following:

i) Flow curve

ii) Work hardening

iii) Stress Rupture test