Strength of Materials Questions

• Parallel fillet welds are designed for bending strength.
• The deformation of the bar per unit length in the direction of the force is known as
• In watches, the spring is used to absorb shocks and vibrations.
• The relation between Young's modulus (E), shear modulus (C) and bulk modulus (K) is given by
• Which of the following statement is correct?
• A rod is enclosed centrally in a tube and the assembly is tightened by rigid washers. If the assembly is subjected to a compressive load, then
• Modulus of resilience is the proof resilience per unit volume of a material.
• The product of the tangential force acting on the shaft and its distance from the axis of the shaft (i.e. radius of shaft) is known as
• The polar moment of inertia of a solid circular shaft of diameter (D) is
• In a beam subjected to pure bending, the intensity of stress in any fibre is __________ the distance of the fibre from the neutral axis.
• The relation between Young's modulus (E) and bulk modulus (K) is given by
• On one side of a neutral axis of a beam, there is a tensile stress and on the other side of the beam there is a compressive stress.
• Two shafts 'A' and 'B' have the same material. The shaft 'A' is solid of diameter 100 mm. The shaft 'B' is hollow with outer diameter 100 mm and inner diameter 50 mm. The torque transmitted by shaft 'B' is __________ as that of shaft 'A'.
• At the neutral axis of a beam
• The load required to produce a unit deflection in a spring is called
• The bending moment diagram for a simply supported beam carrying a uniformly distributed load of w per unit length, will be
• Which of the following statement is wrong?
• A bar of copper and steel form a composite system, which is heated to a temperature of 40°C. The stress induced in the copper bar will be
• A column is said to be a short column, when
• In a thick cylindrical shell subjected to an internal pressure (p), the tangential stress is always a tensile stress where as the radial stress is a compressive stress