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Tutorial 1B Principal Stresses and Planes

This document contains 5 questions regarding principal stresses and principal planes. The questions involve calculating principal stresses and directions of principal planes given various direct stresses and shear stresses. They also involve determining maximum shear stresses and how results would change given changes in loading conditions. Mohr's circle diagrams are used to confirm some of the answers.

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Tutorial 1B Principal Stresses and Planes

This document contains 5 questions regarding principal stresses and principal planes. The questions involve calculating principal stresses and directions of principal planes given various direct stresses and shear stresses. They also involve determining maximum shear stresses and how results would change given changes in loading conditions. Mohr's circle diagrams are used to confirm some of the answers.

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BS Program in Mechanical Engineering

Mechanics of Materials II
Tutorial sheet 1B. (Principal Stresses and principal planes)

Q1

Under certain loading conditions the stresses in the walls of a cylinder are as follows:

a. 80 MN/m2 tensile;
b. 30 MN/m2 tensile at right angles to (a);
c. shear stresses of 60 MN/m2 on the planes on which the stresses (a) and (b) act; the shear

Calculate the principal stresses and the planes on which they act. What would be the effect on these results if
owing to a change of loading (a) becomes compressive while stresses (b) and (c) remain unchanged? couple
acting on planes carrying the 30 MN/m' stress is clockwise in effect.

Q2

A material is subjected to two mutually perpendicular direct stresses of 80 MN/m2 tensile and 50 MN/m2
compressive, together with a shear stress of 30 MN/m2. The shear couple acting on planes carrying the 80 MN/m2
stress is clockwise in effect. Calculate

a. the magnitude and nature of the principal stresses;


b. the magnitude of the maximum shear stresses in the plane of the given stress system;
c. the direction of the planes on which these stresses act.

Confirm your answer by means of a Mohr’s stress circle diagram, and from the diagram determine the magnitude
of the normal stress on a plane inclined at 20o counterclockwise to the plane on which the 50 MN/m2 stress acts.
BS Program in Mechanical Engineering
Mechanics of Materials II
Tutorial sheet 1B. (Principal Stresses and principal planes)

Q3

At a given section a shaft is subjected to a bending stress of 20 MN/m2 and a shear stress of 40 MN/m2.
Determine:

a. the principal stresses;


b. the directions of the principal planes;
c. the maximum shear stress and the planes on which it acts;
d. the tensile stress which, acting alone, would produce the same maximum shear stress;
e. the shear stress which, acting alone, would produce the same maximum tensile
principal stress.

Q4

At a point in a piece of elastic material direct stresses of 90 MN/m2 tensile and 50 MN/m2 compressive are
applied on mutually perpendicular planes. The planes are also subjected to a shear stress. If the greater principal
stress is limited to 100MN/m2 tensile, determine:

a. the value of the shear stress;


b. the other principal stress;
c. the normal stress on the plane of maximum shear;
d. the maximum shear stress.

Make a neat sketch showing clearly the positions of the principal planes and planes of maximum shear stress
with respect to the planes of the applied stresses.

Q5

In a certain material under load a plane AB carries a tensile direct stress of 30 MN/m2 and a shear stress of 20
MN/m2, while another plane BC carries a tensile direct stress of 20 MN/m2 and a shear stress. If the planes are
inclined to one another at 30o and plane AC at right angles to plane AB carries a direct stress unknown in
magnitude and nature, find:

a. the value of the shear stress on BC;


b. the magnitude and nature of the direct stress on AC;
c. the principal stresses.

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