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GATE-2018 ME-Set-2

ANALYSIS OF GATE 2018*(Memory Based)

Mechanical Engineering

Engineering
Mechanics
Industrial Engineering 3%
Engineering General Aptitude Mathematics
15% Mechanics of
6% 13% Materials
8%

Theory Of
Manufacturing Machines
Engineering 8%
19%
Fluid Mechanics
8%
Thermodynamics
12% Machine Design
3%

Heat Transfer
5%

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ME ANALYSIS-2018_3-Feb_Afternoon
Level of Total
SUBJECT No. of Ques. Topics Asked in Paper(Memory Based)
Ques. Marks
Random Variable, Complex Variable,
Engineering 1 Marks: 5
Divergence, Complementary Function, Easy 13
Mathematics 2 Marks: 4 Determinant, Variable Separable Method,
Fourier Series
Engineering 1 Marks:1
Slider Crank Mechanism, Collision Medium 3
Mechanics 2 Marks: 1
Mechanics of 1 Marks: 2
Columns, Simple Stress and Strain Medium 8
Materials 2 Marks: 3
Theory Of 1 Marks: 2
Gear Strain, Vibration, Torsion, Cams Medium 8
Machines 2 Marks: 3
1 Marks: 1
Machine Design Bearing Capacity, Breaks Easy 3
2 Marks: 2
1 Marks: 2
Fluid Mechanics Fluid Properties, Flow through pipes Medium 8
2 Marks: 3
1 Marks: 1
Heat Transfer Radiation, Convection Easy 5
2 Marks: 2
1 Marks: 2
Thermodynamics Ideal Gas, IC Engine, Vapour compression Medium 12
2 Marks: 5 cycle, Refrigeration
Manufacturing 1 Marks: 7
Milling, Metal Cutting, Forming, EDM Tough 19
Engineering 2 Marks: 6
Industrial 1 Marks: 2
Inventory Management, Linear Tough 6
Engineering 2 Marks: 2 Programming
1 Marks: 5
General Aptitude Geometry, TSD, Functions, Grammar, Easy 15
2 Marks: 5 Numbers, Work, inference
Total 65 100
Faculty Feedback Majority of the question were concept based. General Aptitude And
Mathematics is Very Easy. Core Subject Questions were 50% easy, 30%
medium and 20% tough.

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GATE 2018 Examination*(Memory Based)

Mechanical Engineering
Test Date: 3-Feb-2018
Test Time: 2:00 PM 5:00 PM
Subject Name: Mechanical Engineering

General Aptitude
1. A contract is to be completed in 52 days and 125 identical robots where employed each
operated for 7 hr/day. After 39 days , ( ) of work was completed. How many additional
robots would be required to complete the work on time. If each robot is now operational
for 8 hrs a day
[Ans. 7]

2. Complete the Series:

BC FGH LMNO__________?
[Ans. TUVWX]

3.
[Ans. 1]

4. Perimeter of circle, square and equilateral triangle are equal then

(A) Area of circle will be maximum.
(B) Area of square will be maximum.
(C) Area of equilateral triangle will be maximum.
(D) All area will be equal.
[Ans. A]

5. The dress __________ her, that they all __________ her for appearance.
(A) Complemented, Complimented
(B) Complimented, Complemented
(C) Complimented, Complimented
(D) Complemented, Complemented
[Ans. A]

6. A wire bent over square has area of m . Wire is cut into two parts a and b such that
a b. Now’ a’ is bent over square and’ b’ bent over circle. Find out the sum of area of
square and circle
[Ans. *] 1243

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7. A House Number has to be allotted with the following Conditions

1. If the Number is a multiple of 3 it will lie between 50 to 59
2. The Number will not be multiple of 4 it will lie between 60 to 69
3. The Number will not be multiple of 6 it will lie between 70 to 79.
Identify the House No.
(A) 54 (B) 65
(C) 66 (D) 76
[Ans. D]

8. There are 40 students in a class. They have to watch movies from A, B and C. They either
watch one or all three movies. 16 students watch A, 13 students watch B, 19 students
watch C. How many students watched all three movies?
[Ans. *] 4

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Technical
1. A bimetallic cylindrical bar of cross sectional area 1m is made by steel and aluminum as
shown. To maintain axial strain in both steel and aluminum tensile in steel
and compressive in Al) The force P = __________kN.

a
a

[Ans. *] 280

2. Minimum axial compressive load required to initiate buckling for a pinned –pinned
slender column with bending stiffness EI and length L is __________

3. If the bar is loaded with a torsional load of 150 Nm as shown. Find the torsional reaction at
P and Q
N

mm mm
(A) 100,50 (B) 50,100
(C) 50,50 (D) 100,100
[Ans. A]

4. Given scalar function ln r) then find its radiant

Given (r⃗ xi yj zk |r̅ | r √x y z )
(A) r r⃗
)
|r|
r⃗ r⃗ r⃗
) )
r⃗. r⃗ r |r|
[Ans. C]

5. A wire bent over square has area of 1936 m , wire is cut into two parts a and b such that
a s. Now ‘a’ is bent over square and ‘s’ is bent over circle.
Find out the sum of area of square and circle
[Ans. *] 1243

6. If [ ] then det ) __________

[Ans. *] 0.25

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7. For an ordinary y x and y ) then y ) __________

[Ans. *]0

8. For a Fourier series f x) a ∑ a cos nx) the value of co-efficient of function

f x) cos x in is _________
[ . . ]

9. The divergence of vector field u

⃗⃗ e cos yi sin yi) is ________
[Ans. *]

10. onsider a function ‘u’ which depends on position ‘x’ and time ’t’. he partial differential
equation is known as
(A) Wave equation (B) Heat equation
(C) Laplace equation (D) Energy equation
[Ans. B]

11. For a counter clockwise integration around a unit circle centered at origin
∮ dz i The value of ‘ ’ is __________
[Ans. *] 0.4

12. y x given y ) then find y )

[Ans. *] 0

13. A ball is dropped from a height of 1m in a friction less tube. If the tube profile is
approximated as straight line the total distance travelled by the ball is __________
[Neglecting the curved position]

g m s

[Ans. *]2.414

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14. A disc of mass 10 kg and radius 1 m is acted upon by a 100N force at the centre as shown
Find the linear acceleration of center of the disc?

m kg
[Ans. *]6.667

15. Let x and x be two independent exponential distribution R.V with mean 0.5 and 0.25
respectively . hen y min x x ) is
(A) Exponential distribution with mean is
(B) Exponential distribution with mean is 2
(C) Normal distribution with mean is
(D) Normal distribution with mean is
[Ans. A]

16. The problem of maximizing z x x subject to constraints

x x x and x has
(A) No solution (B) One solution
(C) Two solution (D) More solution
[Ans. B]

17. The peak wave length of radiation emitted by a black body at a temperature of 2000 k is
. m. If the peak wave length of emitted radiation changes to . m, then the
temperature (in k) of the black body is _________ (k)
[Ans. *] 1000

18. In a steam power plant steam is condensed in a condenser at . The cooling water
enters the condenser at . The cooling water enters the condenser at and leaves
at . If the total surface area of tubes is m and overall heat transfer co-efficient is
w m k then heat transfer to the condenser is _________
[Ans. *] 1154.16

19. For ideal gas undergoing a process ① to ② change in entropy s) is given by

(A) ln * + ln * +

(B) ln * + ln * +

(C) ln * + ln * +

(D) ln * + ln * +
[Ans. A]

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20. Engine operates an a reversible cycle as shown. Find work done by the engine for one
cycle _________[in kJ/cycle]
k a)

m )
.
[Ans. *] 62.5

21. Air held in a non –insulated piston-cylinder arrangement is at an initial pressure of 200
KPa and an initial temperature of . The ambient temperature and pressure are
and 100 KPa. At what temperature of air inside the cylinder the piston starts sinking.
a

Cross-section area of piston cm

Mass of piston=25kg g m s
[Ans. *] 420.625

22. A heat engine working on otto cycle generates 70kw while consuming 10.3 kg/hr of fuel.
The calorific value of fuel is 4000kJ/kg. Compression ratio of the cycle will be _________
[Ans. *] 7.614

23. A standard vapour compression cycle working between and produces a

cooling effect of 15 kW-Enthalpies of the refrigerant at different stages are given in the (p-
h) graph . If isentropic efficiency of compressor is 0.75 then power consumed by the
compressor is ________
k a)

h k ⁄kg)
[Ans. *] 0.1

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24. Ambient air at a pressure of 100Kpa and dry bulb temperature has 60% relative
humidity. The saturated vapour pressurize at is 4.24 kPa specific humidity of air is
_________ [g/kg of dry air]
[Ans. *] 16.2367

25. For a friction less gear train torque applied on the gear having 12 tooth is 100 Nm. What
will be the torque at the output shaft having the gear with 60 tooth________

Nm z

[Ans. *] 2000

26. For an under damped system which of the following statement is always true in
comparison with un-damped system.
m

c k

(A) Time period of vibration increases

(B) Time period of vibration decreases
(C) Time period remain constant
(D) Frequency of vibration increases
[Ans. A]

27. A rigid link of length 1 m is sliding in the corner of the wall as shown in the figure. A
the instant when the rod is making with the horizontal velocity of end ’ ’ is m s.
Velocity of end of the rod at this instant is __________m/s

m s

[Ans. *] 5

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28. n a cam follower mechanism the follower rises ‘h as the cam rotates by radians at
constant angular velocity rad s) .The follower is rising with uniform acceleration
during first half of the rise and with uniform deceleration during second half of the rise.
Maximum velocity of the follower__________

[ . ]

29. In an arc welding operation the voltage and current applied are 30 volts and 200 Amperes.
If cross section area of the weld head is 20 mm and the specific energy required to melt
the metal is 20 J/mm . Calculate the linear welding speed if heat transfer efficiency is 70%.
__________(in mm/sec)?
[Ans. *]10.5 mm/s

30. In an electric discharge machining a hole of diameter 25 mm is to be made in a 20 mm

thick plate.
.
Material removal rate given by mm min
Where I = Current in Ampere
T = Temperature induced
If I = 300 A and T = . Calculate the time taken for machining in min
[Ans. *] 7.143

31. aylor’s tool life equation

holes N
holes N
N
[Ans. *] 244 holes

32. What is Eutectoid reaction?

[Ans. *]
Eutectoid reaction: The phase change reaction of an alloy in which (on cooling/heating) a
single solid phase transforms into two other solid phases.
eating
olid ① → olid ② olid ③

33. Mechanism of material removal in electric discharge machining?

[Ans. *]
In EDM material is removed by the process of melting vaporization.

34. Match List I and List II

List –I List-II
1. Tooth paste tube a. Rolling
2. Plastic bottles b. Centrifugal casting
3. Metallic pipes c. Blow moulding
4. Threaded blots d. Impact Extrusion
[Ans. *] 1 –d, 2 – c, 3 – b, 4 – a.

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35. In an orthogonal turning operation of a steel rod with a single point cutting tool having 15
rake angle, the uncut chip thickness and chip thickness are 0.5 mm and 1.25 mmm
respectively. The shear angle in radians is_________.
[Ans. *] 23.315

36. Preferred option for holding odd shaped work piece.

(A) Three jaw chuck
(B) Four
(C) Dog clutch
(D) Live center and dead center
[Ans. B]

37. During solidification of molten metal in casting process the type of grains formed near the
mould wall surface will be
(A) Fine and random oriented
(B) Coarse and random oriented
(C) Large columnar grains oriented forward center of casting
(D) Fine and systematically oriented
[Ans. A]

38. Find the Economic Order Quantity for the given data.
Demand = 9600 units
Holding cost = 16 Rs/unit/year
Ordering cost = 75 Rs/unit
[Ans. 300]

39. A cylinder containing water started to leak through an aperture having cross section area
of m . At the instant shown, what is velocity(V) of sinking of the piston due to this
leakage. (in m/s).
[Assume the clearance between piston and cylinder is zero, i.e., there is no leakage water
through the piston clearance].
. k a
kg
kg

a m

Mass of piston = 100 kg

c/s area of piston = m
g m s
ensity of water kg m
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40. Why is Pretension given bolts

(A) To increase stiffness
(B) To decrease stiffness
(C) For strain hardening
(D) For increasing brittleness
[Ans. A]

41. A beam of square cross section is subjected to steady lead of 20 kN and fluctuating load
kN and kN
Endurance limit =150 MPa
Yield strength=380 MPa
Ultimate strength =420 MPa
Factor of safety=2
Find the length of side of a square by modified Goodman equation
[Ans. *] 22.253 mm

42. Air flows over a flat plate is the thickness of boundary layer at the end of the plate of
length ‘ ’ of plate length is doubled % change in the thickness of boundary layer will be?
[Ans. *] 41.4

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43. The true stress (MPa) versus true strain relationship for a metal is given by .
The cross section area at the start of test is mm .The cross section area at the time of
necking in mm ) is _________
[Ans. *] We Will update soon

44. Find the economic order quantity for the given data.
Demand=9600 units
Holding cost=16 Rs/unit/year
Ordering cost=75 Rs/unit
[Ans. *] 300 units

45. Considering the air flow through the shown passage as in compressible, find ot the
pressure drop from section 1 to section 2.

mm d mm
ir
. kg m
. m sec

[Ans. *] 1.239 kPa

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