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Strength of Materials problems


  • 1. The B.M. diagram of the beam shown in below figure, is
    Civil Engineering Strength of Materials: The B.M. diagram of the beam shown in below figure, is

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  • A. a rectangle
  • B. a triangle
  • C. a trapezium
  • D. a parabola
  • E. a circle.
  • Discuss
  • 2. The phenomenon of slow growth of strain under a steady tensile stress, is called

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  • A. yielding
  • B. creeping
  • C. breaking
  • D. none of these.
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  • 3. At either end of a plane frame, maximum number of possible transverse shear forces, are

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  • A. one
  • B. two
  • C. three
  • D. four
  • E. zero.
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  • 4. A solid circular shaft of diameter d is subjected to a torque T. The maximum normal stress induced in the shaft, is

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  • A. zero
  • B.
  • C.
  • D. none of these.
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  • 5. The slenderness ratio of a vertical column of square cross- section of 10 cm side and 500 cm long, is

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  • A. 117.2
  • B. 17.3
  • C. 173.2
  • D. 137.2
  • E. 13.72
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  • 6. The intensity of direct longitudinal stress in the cross-section at any point distant r from the neutral axis, is proportional to

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  • A. r
  • B.
  • C. r2
  • D.
  • E. r3.
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  • 7. If p is the internal pressure in a thin cylinder of diameter d and thickness t, the developed hoop stress, is

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  • A.
  • B.
  • C.
  • D.
  • E.
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  • 8. The value of Poisson's ratio always remains

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  • A. greater than one
  • B. less than one
  • C. equal to one
  • D. none of these.
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  • 9. When two plates butt together and are riveted with two cover plates with two rows of rivets, the joint is known as

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  • A. lap joint
  • B. butt join
  • C. single riveted single cover butt joint
  • D. double riveted double cover butt joint.
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  • 10. If b is the width of a plate joined by diamond riveting of diameter d, the efficiency of the joint is given by

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  • A.
  • B.
  • C.
  • D.
  • Discuss

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