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Casting Practice Test: Foundry Metals & Materials
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Foundry Metals & Materials topics include: Cast irons, copper and magnesium alloys, foundry fluxes and refractories, steel and stainless steel melting, degassing metals and materials, foundry metals and alloys and aluminium alloys. Foundry metals and materials include: Cast iron: A common, inexpensive metal used in foundry casting Shell molding: A method used to produce cores for traditional sand casting Furan resin sand casting: A self-hardening sand used to produce complex metal castings Casting alloys: A metal or alloy that is poured into molds to produce metal castings Foundry sand:... Show more
Casting Practice Test: Foundry Metals & Materials
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1. Which of the following materials cannot be used for making a core box?
2. In magnesium alloys, what is the maximum amount of allowed aluminum?
3. The dust produced from electric furnaces in steel making procedure is directly thrown out to the atmosphere via chimney.
4. Adding of zirconium in magnesium metal results in the formation of magnesium-zirconium alloy of enhanced ductility.
5. Copper alloys have low thermal conductivity but high electrical conductivity.
6. Copper alloys generally have sparking nature due to its high ductility.
7. Titanium metal generally has a high melting point and low thermal conductivity.
8. Which among the following is a heavy metal?
9. Copper is generally a polymorphous material with body centered cubic (BCC) lattice structure.
10. Which of the following materials is required in a technique of decarburizing the molten steel?
11. Which of the following metals is least used in making magnesium alloys?
12. What is the tensile strength of cast manganese bronze?
13. Degassing process during the formation of castings can prevent inclusion of hydrogen absolutely.
14. Cast iron is widely used in industries because of its high ratio of performance to cost involved in manufacturing.
15. What should be the temperature of the mixture while alloying takes place?
16. Magnesium alloys do not require any special coating as they are self protective from corrosion.
17. In general, magnesium alloy components tends to have fine grain structure in it.
18. Magnesium is a very light material that can be suitable in aircraft applications.
19. Which of the following methods of melting is not used for melting titanium metal?
20. What is the temperature in a core box typically?
21. Which of the following compounds can be used as an inhibitor in moulding materials for avoiding chemical reaction with magnesium alloys?
22. Which of the given metals is not counted among late additions in aluminium alloys?
23. Which furnace is not used for heating aluminium alloys?
24. Which colour is obtained by copper alloys, when zinc is added to it?
25. Pouring basins are used for reducing vortex formation.