List of top Metallurgical Engineering Questions asked in GATE Metallurgical Engineering

In polycrystalline Ni, Nabarro-Herring diffusion creep was found to be the rate controlling creep mechanism at a certain temperature. At that temperature, if the steady state strain rate is \( 10^{-8} \, {s}^{-1} \) at a stress of 10 MPa, the steady state strain rate of \( 10^{-9} \, {s}^{-1} \) will be obtained at a stress value of _________ MPa (in integer). Assume that the same creep mechanism is rate controlling during the creep deformation.

Two consecutive estimates of the root of a function \( f(x) \) obtained using the Newton-Raphson method are \( x_i = 8.5 \) and \( x_{i+1} = 13.5 \), and the value of the function at \( x_i \) is 15. The numerical value of the first derivative of the function evaluated at \( x_i \) is _________ (in integer).