Karnataka PGCET 2015 Question Paper Textile Technology

POST GRADUATE COMMON ENTRANCE TEST - 2015
DATE & TIME COURSE SUBJECT
08-08-2015 ME / M.Tech/ M.Arch / Courses
10.30 AM TO 12.30 PM Offered by VTU / UVCE / UBDTCE TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY

MAXIMUM MARKS TOTAL DURATION MAXIMUM TIME FOR ANSWERING

100 150 MINUTES 120 MINUTES
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350025
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MARKS DISTRIBUTION
PART - 1 50 QUESTIONS CARRY ONE MARK EACH (1 TO 50)
PART - 2 25 QUESTIONS CARRY TWO MARKS EACH (51 - 75)

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TEXTILE TECHNOLOGY
PART - 1
(50 X 1 = 50)
(Each question carries one mark)

1. Minimum FQI value required for a textile 6. Normally the following hooks are high in card
fibre is sliver
a. 40 h 10 a. Leading hooks

c. 20 b. Trailing hooks
d. 5
c. Hooks on both side

2. Trash to lint ratio in Blow - room is normally d No hooks
a. 80:20 b. 70:30
c. 50:50 d. 40:60
7. Draw frame is exclusively used to enhance

a. Uniformity of sliver
3. The number of beating points used for blends
is h Strength of sliver
a. 5 b. 6 c. To reduce the size of sliver
c. 8 d 2.5
d. To increase the size of sliver

4. Hopper feeder is normally kept behind
scutcher since it
8. Polar drafting in draw frame is
a. Cleans well
b. Opening is better a. 4/4 b. 4/3

c. Regulates the feed c. 3/5 d 2/2

d. Better beating point

9. Comber to be fed with
5. The percentage plate is part of
a. Leading hooks
a. Doffer
b. Trailing hooks
b. Flat
c. No hooks
c. Licker-in
d. Front plate d Hooks on both side

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10. Detachment setting is _______ trash 15. Normally the opening roller speed ranges
extraction from
a. Directly proportional a. 7,000 - 9,000 rpm
b. Indirectly b. 15,000 - 16,000 rpm
c. No relation c. 2,000 - 3, 000 rpm
d Equal to d. 1,000 - 1,500 rpm

11. Always traveler lag takes place since 16. End of condensation is a process of where
yarn will be
a. Twist to be inserted
a. Increasing the fibre flux and reducing
b. Winding to take place the fibre velocity
c. Strength to be imparted b. Increasing the fibre velocity and
reducing the fibre flux
d. Uniformity increases
c. Increasing the fibre flux and
increasing the fibre velocity
12. Bobbin leading mechanism in speed frame
d. Reducing the fibre flux and reducing
is preferred in
the fibre velocity
a. Jute Industry
b. Silk Industry 17. The number of doubling that takes place in
c. Man - Made open end spinning
d. Cotton Industry a. 10 - 15 h 20 - 25
c. 100 - 200 d. 25 - 50

13. Doubling of yarn increases
a. Strength and uniformity 18. Normally the ratio between fibre length to
rotor is
b. Abrasion and tearing
a. 1:2 b. 1:1.1
c. Bursting strength
c. 1:1 d. 1:0.5
d. Hand value

19. The slub catcher setting (Mechanical type)
14. Wet doubling is normally employed for the setting is normally
a. Sewing thread a. Equal to yarn dia
b. Fancy yarns b. Half the yarn dia
c. Twist less yarns c. 4 times the yarn dia
d. None of the above d 2.5 times the yarn dia

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20. The solid content in sizing is measured by 25. Singeing is a process of removing
a. Viscometer a. Core fibres
b. Refractometer b. Long fibres
c. Tachometer c. Entangled fibres
d. None of the above d. Protruding fibres

21. The sizing is a process which enhances 26. Singeing, when carried out at yarn stage
a. Tensile strength a. Makes the yarn finer
b. Abrasion resistance b. Makes it coarser
c. Tearing strength c. The count is not affected
d. Bursting strength d. None of the above

22. The beating - up normally takes place at 27. Scouring is a process in which

a. Front centre a. Natural impurities are removed

h Back centre b. Brightens the fabric

c. Top centre c. Strengthen the fabric

d. Bottom centre d. Improves hand of the fabric

23. Knitting is a process of 28. Silk is normally dyed with

a. Interlacing of yarns a. Direct dye

b. Intermeshing of yarns b. Acid dye

c. c. Basic dye
Knotting the yarns
d. Vat dye
cL Combining the yarns

29. The fastness property is very good, when
24. Normally course density will be
cotton fabric is dyed with
a. Higher than wale density a. Direct dye
b. Equal to wale density h Vat dye
c. Less than wale density c. Basic dye
d. No relations d. Sulphur dye

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30. 30's Ne is equivalent to 35. Throwing of silk means
a. 30 Tex b. 20 Tex a. Twisting
c. 10 Tex d. 5 Tex b. Reeling

c. Degumming
31. Fabric hand value is measured by d Doubling
a. KAWA BATA
b. FAST 36. The strongest weave is
c. HVI a. Plain b. Twill
d. Spectrometer c. Satin d. Sateen

32. As the drape coefficient increases fabric is 37. Pique fabrics means
a. Stiffer a. Curtain fabrics
b. Supple b. Shirting
c. Smoother c. Toilet fabrics
d. Low resistance to bending
d. Fancy fabrics

33. Bursting strength is very important
parameter for 38. Towelling fabrics are normally

a. Woven fabric a. Plain weave

b. Knitted fabric b. Huck - a - back

c. Braided fabric c. Twill weave

d. None of the above d. Satin weave

34. Silk contains 39. The number of floats is high in

a. Sulphuric acid a. Plain weave

b. Acetic acid b. Twill weave

c. Amino acid c. Sateen weave

d. Hydrochloric acid d. Pile fabric

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40. Merchandising is linked with 45. Buckling of fabric influences on

a. Sewing Garment a. Cutting b. Finishing
c. Dyeing d. Sewing
b. Dyeing Garment
c. Marketing Garment
46. Shear stress means
d. Finishing Garment
a. Vertical load
b. Tangential load to the surface
41. Normally in garment industry, grey fabrics c. Multidirectional load
are inspected by
d. None of the above
a. Visual inspection
b. 4 - point system 47. Spun silk means
c. Physical testing a. Silk filament are spun in short staple
spinning
d. None of the above
b. Silk filament are spun in long staple
spinning
42. Care labeling is a c. Silk filament are twisted together
a. Process of selling the garment d. Waste silk are spun in short staple
spinning
b. Cutting procedure
c. Stitching instruction 48. The normal degumming loss percentage will
d. Maintenance of garment during be
washing a. 0 - 10% b. 10 - 15%
c. 20 - 25% d. 5 - 15%
43. Good quality silk will have
a. More Renditta 49. Pattern making means
a. Paper cutting before garment making
b. Less Renditta
b. Device to stitch
c. Equal to reelability
c. Method of dyeing garment
d. None of the above
d. Quality control study

44. The maximum THV value of a fabric 50. Silk is a
a. 1 h 100 a. Mono filament b. Bi - filament
c. 5 d. 0 c. Multi filament d. Fibre

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PART - 2
(Each question carries two marks)
(25 X 2 = 50)
51. Ginning is a process of 55. Normally the beater to fan - speed in blow
room is in the ratio
a. Removing short fibres
a. 1:2 b. 1:3
b. Removing long fibres
c. 1:1.2 d. 1:4
c. Separating seed and fibre

d. Mixing the fibres
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56. Mote knife is a part of

52. Jute is a a. Licker in zone
a. Bast fibre b. Doffer zone
b. Mineral fibre
c. Flat zone
c. Man - made fibre
d. Carding zone
Organic fibre

57. At the time of carding, only
53. Air texturing of yarn result in
a. 40 flats will be working
a. Stretch yarn

b. Modified stretch yarn b. No flats will be working

c. Bulk yarn c. 100 flats will be working

d. Crimped yarn d. Only 10 flats will be working

54. The grid bar setting is very important to 58. The noil percentage in double combing is
control

a. Loss of trash a. 0 - 5%

b. Loss of lint b. 5 - 10%

c. Loss of sand particles c. 10- 15%

d None of the above d. 20 - 25%

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59. Doubling in draw frame improves 63. Open end yarns are more uniform than ring
span yarns because
a. Strength
a. Long fibres are used
b. Uniformity
b. Method of twisting
c. Non uniformity

d. Drafting c. More no. of doubling

d. Break in twisting and winding

60. The twist given in speed frame is to

a. Strengthen the roving
64. Polyester is normally dyed with
b. Withstand stress and strain during
spinning a. Acid dyes

c. Withstand stress and strain during b. Reactive dyes
winding
c. Disperse dyes
d. Prepare roving uniformity
d. Vat dyes

61. Normally actual twist is always

a. Greater than practical twis 65. Higher micronaire value means

b. Less than practical twist a. Fibres are finer
c. Equal to practical twist
b. Fibres are coarser
d. None of the above
c. Fibres are matured

d. Fibres are stronger
62. As the diameter of rotor increases the

a. Wrapper fibres will be less
66. 30 Tex yarn is equivalent to
b. Wrapper fibres will be more

c. Does not affect the wrapper fibres a. 30's Ne b. 10's Ne

d. None of the above c. 5's Ne d. 20's Ne

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67. Twist in yarn increases the 71. Mock - Leno is normally used for

a. Abrasion resistance a. Shirting

b. Suits
b. Tearing resistance
c. Towelling
c. Tensile strength
d. Blouse
d. Bursting strength

72. Fabrofeel is an instrument used to measure

68. The maximum cover factor of square plain a. Tensile and tearing strength of fabric
fabric is
b. Drape coefficient of fabric
a. 10 h 2
c. Hand value of fabric
c. 12 d. 16.2 d. Bursting strength of fabric

69. The temperature normally preferred during 73. The U% of normal ring spun yarn ranges from
reeling of silk is
a. 0 - 5% b. 5 - 8%
a. 65°C c. 20 - 25% d. 10 - 12%

h 25° c
74. The expected loop shape factor of cotton
knitted fabric is
c. 10° C
a. 10 - 20 b. 5-6
d. Steam temp
c. 1 - 1.3 d. 0-1

70. Spun silk industry make use of 75. Sewing threads are normally manufactured
a. Short staple spinning bY
a. Dry doubling
b. Long staple spinning
b. Wet doubling
c. Friction spinning
c. Fancy doubling
d. Air jet spinning d. Open - End spinning

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