BARC INTERVIEW

#1

1. A infinite vertical piston and cylinder was given with air on both sides such that piston is supported by a support
,now you suddenly remove the support such that piston expands due to its self weight, will the piston stop if yes after how
much distance will it stop ,draw pv diagram and temperature variation along the length of the piston
2. How will you transfer heat from lower temperature to higher temperature without using compressor or any other devices which
runs on electricity give me a green method suitable for environment
3. Why does ship float in water if the density of the material of ship is more than the water .
4. Why does ship flow above water and submarines flow inside water
5. Two Bodies are at same temperature one of aluminum and other plastic which will have more energy ,how will you transfer
that energy from higher to lower
6. Graph of developing flow in laminar flow , which will have more hydrodynamic entrance length turbulent flow or laminar
flow
7.5 kg of ice is mixed at -20 with 5kg of water at 20 find the equilibrium temperature
8. Draw the temperature profile for heat transfer due to convection and radiation combined .
More graphical questions were there for finding stresses in thin cylinder.

#2
Amit Barak
Sir,
As PSUs interview season is going on post GATE . With your grace and guidance, despite not being a very good ranker in
GATE-2014 (334 -ME), i was able to pass almost all the interviews , like BARC , HPCL , IOCL , NLC for which i was called.
I shared this post in previous years also to guide aspirants .
Sharing this post again so that the 2017 aspirants who have not got very good rank and are solely dependent on interview will be
guided properly.

INTERVIEW EXPERIENCES ..
1) BARC INTERVIEW - totally technical interview . quite lenthy , in my case it lasted for 75 minutes . Normally there is a panel
of 5 interviewrs , who are very much supportive and keep giving on hints wherever required . The interview starts with very basic
questions and slowly slowly the difficulty level of questions is raised .
For clearing BARC interview one should have good command over basics , As the interview is pure technical and lenghty so
atleast 5-6 subjects should be prepared as favourite subjects. ANALYTICAL APPROACH to solve a problem should be
developd while preparing for BARC interview .
THANK YOU.

#3

Barc interview experience. 15th june

There were five person sitting in the room. First chairman ask my name and also what were you doing since 2015.
Why did you left job?
Then they ask to write five subjects.
1. HT 2. Thermo 3. Mat. Sc 4. Som 5. Fm
Q.1 How does a pressure cooker works
2. Draw pressure and temp v/s time graph. Also T-s diagram
3. Assume base of cooker is hemispherical draw temp profile.
4. Draw temp profile for heat transfer from cylinder.
5. How would you define stainless steel. Show physically what happens when chromium is added.
6. Carbon is which kind of impurity in iron. Show in figure
7. Draw stress strain diagram of aluminium.
8. Why strain offset is required and its value(not in %)
9. Show elastic and plastic strain in unloading condition.
10. Position of specimen in charpy and izod test.
11. Value of eutectoid temp. How austenite is made stable at room temp.
11. Draw diagram of bcc and fcc. And find total atoms.
12. Why railway tracks crack in winter.
13. Do you know something about cryogenics.
14. If a cold drink bottle is kept outside building and a long straw is placed in it. Then is it possible to drink it from roof of
building.
15. What happens if a small leakage is there in straw.
16. If it was a frutty pack( straw covered around periphery) what would be the effect.
17. While drinking frutty first it comes at high rate then there is a sound in pack. Reason
18. Derive capillary rise
19. Take a small capillary and raise water through it. Place another capillary over it and so on. Will it work. Can this system
replace pump.
Interview duration was 1 hr. they were starting with a problem and then going to deep level.

#4
Interview experience shared by one student

My BARC interview (7th june)

Mechanical (AIR 16)

5 minutes general talks to make comfortable environment for us

Q1
Write your favourite subjects

Q2
A diagram of canteliver is given with inclined load and asked to drow SFD , BMD

Q3
Find critical crossection in given cantilever

Q4
Derive formula for deflection at free end

Q5
Show variation in sfd, bmd if load is shifted towards fixed end

Q6
Show stress distribution of composite beam

Q7
Draw mohr circle for critical crossection in cantilever and explain it

Q8
Piston cylinder arrangement was given with electric heater in it and asked to draw P-V diagram

Q9
A cylinder of air (150bar and 50 degree celcius) plus other data and asked to find heat supplied till the pressure drop to 10 bar as
the cylinder valve is opened

Q10
Air conditioner work on which principle
Draw the cycle and T-s diagram
Explain function of each component

Q11
Which factor decides working pressure of condensor

Q12
How to increase COP of VCRS

Q13
Why condenser of refrigerator is inside room
Q14
A furnace of composite cylindrical walls is given
Asked to draw temperature profiles

Q15
Drive expression for temperature profile in terms of diatance from one end in a conical solid tube having different temperatures at
its ends

Q16
What are the controlling factors to decide height of pump from sump level.

Interview was of 1 hr 15 minutes.

#5
The panel consisted of 4 members. They began with a brief 10-15 minutes discussion about my homeplace and reasons why I left
my previous job. They also asked what I know about BARC Interviews. They were very friendly and easy going and told me to
be calm and stress free. After that they asked me to write down my favourite subjects. I wrote:1)SOM 2) Thermodynamics 3)
Heat Transfer 4) Fluid MechanicsQ-1: A container containing 10 kg of water is kept on weighing scale .If a string is tied to a 1 kg
ball (density 10 times than water) and is immersed in the container, how the reading of weighing scale will change?? (from the
time when ball is completely outside the water to the point when it is completely submerged; assuming tank is sufficiently large
so that water does not overflows out of tank)Q-2 A gas is contained in a frictionless cylinder-piston arrangement whose walls are
sufficiently long and the surface above piston is exposed to atmospheric pressure. The whole assembly is turned upside down
suddenly (so that pistons starts moving down due to its weight). They asked me to draw P-V diagram of the whole process till a
steady state is reached.Q-3.A balloon is being inflated with air isothermally so that both pressure and volume of air inside balloon
is increasing. Then why PV=RT is not followed in this case?? (LHS is increasing while RHS remains same)They also asked me
one more question on fluid which they linked with the design afterwards (although I didn’t wrote design in my favourite
subjects). They kept on providing hints in the whole interview which lasted for one hour.

Q.s started as
What is casting
What are advantages
Why it is preferred over another processes
What is cast iron
Properties of cast iron
Percentage of carbon in cast iron
What are defects in casting
What are materials used in spacecraft
Please come on the board
Draw a cantilever with a point load at the end with rectangular cross section
Draw bending stress distribution
If a turn it by 90 degree which one will be better consider width is greater than height.
What is optimization
How will you design this for optimisation
I gave the answer but they were not fully satisfied
So they said let me give you a hint if you want me or him( a interviewer in side, who was very thin) whom will you take
to space,so i thought for a second or two and then i chose for the thin person, so they said yes design it for minimum
weight i gave some answers
Then they shifted to hmt
Where is thermal diffusivity used
What it signifies
What is thermal resistance
What is formula for slab , sphere
Write one dimensional heat conduction equation
I wrote down in all three co- ordinate system
They said "is third one(spherical co-ordinates) is correct"
I corrected there was an error they now said is it correct now I said yes ( when i checked from book after interview it
was correct)
What is a satellite
What are its functions

1. On column with one end fixed and other end free, eccentric load with eccentricity e and another transverse load
acts then draw bmd.
2. What is stress distribution of that on section in above Q.
3. Two coins are tossed what is probability of getting 2 heads ? Explain.
4. A parabola is given how to find area of under it. Explain the method of finding the area under curve using
integration.
5. Log (0) = a . Then what is value of a. Explain it.
6. What is cavitation. Where it occurs. Explain with an example.
7. What is difference between static pressure and stagnation pressure.
8. A balloon is given . It is fully filled by air upto maximum capacity . As it go up in air what will happen.
9. A concrete block is given which is at 300 ℃ and is cooled down to 30 ℃ using water . Analyse this situation and tell
me what will happen when both attains same temp.

1. What is material of turbine blade and its casing?

2. What is M.O.I. and polar moment of inertia?
3. What is section modulus and why I beam preferred?
4 what is rotational speed of engine?
5.what is antifrictional bearing?