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10CV/EV33: Strength of Materials

This document contains an exam for a Strength of Materials course, with 8 questions across two parts. It provides definitions, formulas, and problems related to topics like Young's modulus, shear modulus, Poisson's ratio, stress and strain, beams, shafts, columns, and more. Students are instructed to answer 5 of the 8 questions, with at least 2 from each part, in 3 hours. Diagrams, sketches, and numerical calculations are required. Data may be assumed if missing.

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10CV/EV33: Strength of Materials

This document contains an exam for a Strength of Materials course, with 8 questions across two parts. It provides definitions, formulas, and problems related to topics like Young's modulus, shear modulus, Poisson's ratio, stress and strain, beams, shafts, columns, and more. Students are instructed to answer 5 of the 8 questions, with at least 2 from each part, in 3 hours. Diagrams, sketches, and numerical calculations are required. Data may be assumed if missing.

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10CV/EV33

USN

Third Semester B.E. Degree Examination, June/July 2014


Strength of Materials
Important Note : 1. On completing your answers, compulsorily draw diagonal cross lines on the remaining blank pages.
2. Any revealing of identification, appeal to evaluator and /or equations written eg, 42+8 = 50, will be treated as malpractice.

Time: 3 hrs.

Max. Marks:100
Note: 1. Answer FIVE full questions, selecting
atleast TWO question from each part.
2. Missing data, if any, may be suitably assumed.
PART A

ii) Shear modulus and


iii) Poissons ratio
a. Define : i) Youngs modulus
Write the relationship between them.
(05 Marks)
b. Derive an expression for elongation of flat tapering bar subjected to an axial pull P.
(08 Marks)

c. A signal is being worked by a steel wire 750 m long and 6 mm in diameter. Find the
movement which must be given to the signal box end of wire at a pull of 16 kN, if the
movement at the signal end is to be 250 mm. Take E = 2 105N/mm2.
(07 Marks)
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a. A steel rod is 18 m long at a temperature of 25C. Find the free expansion when the
temperature is raised to 85C. Also find the temperature stress produced when :
i) The expansion is fully prevented.
ii) The rod is permitted to expand by 4.5 mm.
E = 200 kN/mm2 and = 12 10-6/C.
(06 Marks)
b. Two forces of 50 kN and 100 kN are applied to a bar fixed between two unyielding supports.
Compute the stresses induced in different materials. The material properties and the
properties of the bar are indicated in Fig. Q2(b).
(14 Marks)

Fig. Q2(b)
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a. Define : i) Principal stresses ii) Principal planes.


(04 Marks)
b. Show that principal planes and maximum shearing planes are inclined at 45 with each
other.
(04 Marks)
c. At a point in a strained material, the state of stress is as shown in Fig. Q3(c). Compute :
i) Principal stresses and principal planes ii) Maximum shearing stresses and maximum
shearing planes. Sketch these planes.
(12 Marks)

Fig. Q3(c)
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(06 Marks)
a. Derive the relationship between BM, SF and intensity of udl.
b. Draw SFD and BMD for the beam loaded as shown in Fig. Q4(b). Indicate the values at
(14 Marks)
various points and locate point of contraflexure, if any.

Fig. Q4(b)
PART B
5

a. Compare the flexural strength of the following three beams :


i) I section 320 mm 160 mm with 20 mm thick flange and 13 mm thick web
ii) Rectangular section having depth twice the width
iii) Solid circular section
(12 Marks)
All the three beam sections have same cross-sectional area.
Draw
the
shear
stress
diagram
for
a
rectangular
beam
section
and
show
that
maximum
shear
b.
(08 Marks)
stress is 1.5 times average shear stress.

a. Find the expressions for maximum slope and maximum deflection for a cantilever beam
subjected to point load at free end.
(06 Marks)
b. A simply supported beam AB has a span of 5 m and carries a point load of 60 kN at a
distance of 3 m from left end A. Find the ratio of maximum deflection to the deflection
(14 Marks)
under point load.

a. Prove the torsional formula, with usual notations,


T G
=
=
(10 Marks)
J
L
R
b. A 150 mm diameter solid steel shaft is transmitting 450 kW power at 90 rpm. Compute the
maximum shearing stress. Find the change that would occur in the shearing stress, if the
speed were increased to 360 rpm.
(10 Marks)

(05 Marks)
a. List the assumptions made in Eulers theory of long columns.
b. Derive the expression for Eulers buckling load for a column with both ends fixed. (07 Marks)
c. Determine the ratio of Eulers and Rankines load for a hollow cast-iron column 150 mm
outer diameter and 20 mm thick. It is 6 m long and hinged at both ends. Take E = 140 GPa,
1
.
(08 Marks)
c = 550 MPa and =
1600

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