Jonahlyn A.

Pamolagan
Atmosphere Control
Cost of Heat-treatment
Selection and Processes Specification
1. If a steel part is heated in a furnace where it will be in contact with air, it will _____________.
a. Melt
b. Evaporate
c. Oxidize
d. Harden
2. What kind of atmosphere that can also affects the condition of the metal being heat-treated?
a. Machine
b. Furnace
c. Steel
d. Iron
3. What kind of furnace that can be evacuated or purged with inert or nonoxidizing gas to control
oxidation?
a. Electric furnace
b. Fuel-fired furnace
c. Gas furnace
d. Molten salt furnace
4. All of the following are additional special techniques employed for heat treatment except one.
a. Salt furnace
b. Neutral-atmosphere furnace
c. Vacuum atmosphere
d. Fuel-fired furnace
5. Accurate pricing was an important issue. However, errors in heat-treating pricing could affect the
_____________.
a. Success and profitability of the company
b. Machine operation
c. Overall production
d. Teamwork of the employees
6. This could be considered in the final price for the heat treatment of steel.
a. Equipment used
b. Extra cost
c. Extra allowance
d. Extra material
7. What is the principal alloying element for carbon steels?
a. Iron
b. Nickel
c. Carbon
d. Sulfur
8. What kind of desirable element is a significant contributor to hardness, strength and hardenability.
a. Carbon
b. Manganese

c. Nickel
d. Silicon
9. What kind of desirable element that increases hardenability and strength but decreases ductility
and toughness?
a. Carbon
b. Manganese
c. Nickel
d. Silicon
10. What kind of desirable element is used primarily to enhance the toughness of steels, especially in
low-temperature uses?
a. Carbon
b. Manganese
c. Nickel
d. Silicon
11. What kind of desirable element is added to steel at low levels to increase hardenability?
a. Aluminum
b. Vanadium
c. Boron
d. Molybdenum
12. What kind of undesirable element increases the strength and hardenability of steel but
dramatically reduces toughness and ductility?
a. Phosphorus
b. Sulfur
c. Hydrogen
d. Oxygen
13. Oxygen content of steel should be below __________to avoid gas porosity and poor sulfide
shape.
a. 50 ppm
b. 100 ppm
c. 150 ppm
d. 200 ppm
14. Choosing an alloy composition and heat treatment to improve one property may result in the
___________ of another property.
a. Reduction
b. Oxidation
c. Heating
d. Cooling
15. The ____________requirement for a plate section can be estimated by multiplying the calculated
DI by 1.5
a. Malleability
b. Ductility
c. Tensile
d. Hardenability