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  • In calculating the strength of a riveted joint in tearing, shearing and crushing, the


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  • A. actual diameter of rivet is used
  • B. actual diameter of hole drilled for rivet is used
  • C. mean diameter of hole drilled and rivet is used
  • D. smaller of the rivet diameter and hole diameter is used

  • Correct Answer
  • actual diameter of hole drilled for rivet is used 


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    • 1. The longitudinal stress in a riveted cylindrical shell of diameter (d), thickness (t) and subjected to an internal pressure (p) is

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    • 2. The tensile test is carried on __________ materials.

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    • A. ductile
    • B. brittle
    • C. malleable
    • D. plastic
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    • 3. When the retained material is subjected to some superimposed or surcharged load, the total horizontal pressure due to surcharged load is (where p = Intensity of the supercharged load)

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    • 4. Two solid shafts 'A' and 'B' are made of the same material. The shaft 'A' is of 50 mm diameter and shaft 'B' is of 100 mm diameter. The strength of shaft 'B' is __________ as that of shaft A.

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    • A. one-half
    • B. double
    • C. four times
    • D. eight times
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    • 5. When a body is subjected to a direct tensile stress (?x) in one plane accompanied by a simple shear stress (?xy ), the minimum normal stress is

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    • 6. The pull required to shear off a rivet, in double shear, per pitch length is

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    • A. ?/4 x d2 x ?t
    • B. ?/4 x d2 x ?
    • C. ?/2 x d2 x ?t
    • D. ?/2 x d2 x ?
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    • 7. The ductility of the material __________ with the decrease in percentage elongation of a specimen under tensile test.

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    • A. increases
    • B. decreases
    • C. remains same
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    • 8. The section modulus (Z) of a beam is given by

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    • A. I/y
    • B. I.y
    • C. y/I
    • D. M/I
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    • 9. The springs in cars are used to store strain energy.

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    • A. Correct
    • B. Incorrect
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    • 10. The shear force of a cantilever beam of length l and carrying a gradually varying load from zero at the free end and w per unit length at the fixed end is __________ at the fixed end.

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    • A. zero
    • B. wl/4
    • C. wl/2
    • D. wl
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