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This document contains 10 problems related to stress, strain, elongation, Young's modulus, tensile load, and diameters of rods and columns. The problems involve calculating values like stress, strain, elongation, modulus, and diameters given information about loads, dimensions, and material properties.

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Strength of materials 2A (SOM2AA2)

Tutorial 0: Stress and Strain

Problem 1
A rod 150cm long and diameter 2.0 cm is subjected to an axial pull of 20KN. If the modulus
of elasticity of the material of the rod is 2×105 N/mm²; determine:
i. The stress
ii. The strain, and
iii. The elongation of the rod
Problem 2
Find the minimum diameter of a steel wire, which is used to raise a load of 4000N if the stress
in the rod is not to exceed 95 MN/m².
[Ans. 7.32mm]

Problem 3
Find the Young’s Modulus of a brass rod of diameter 25mm and of length 250mm which is
subjected to a tensile load of 50KN when the extension of the rod is equal to 0.3mm.

Problem 4
The ultimate stress, for a hollow steel column which carries an axial load of 1.9MN is
480N/mm². If the external diameter of the column is 200mm, determine the internal diameter.
Take the factor of safety as 4.
[Ans. 140.85mm]

Problem 5
A rod 200cm long and of diameter 3.0cm is subjected to an axial load of 30N. If the Young’s
Modulus of the material of the rod is 2×105 N/mm², determine:
i. Stress
ii. Strain
iii. Elongation of the rod
[Ans. (i) 42.44 N/mm² (ii) 0.000212 (iii) 0.0424cm

Problem 6
Find the Young’s Modulus of a rod of diameter 30mm and of length 300mm which is subjected
to a tensile load of 60KN and the extension of the rod is equal to 0.4mm.
[Ans. 63.6 GN/m²]
Problem 7
The safe stress, for a hollow steel column which carries an axial load of 2.2×103 KN is 120
MN/m². If the external diameter of the column is 25cm, determine the internal diameter.
[Ans. 19.79cm]
Problem 8
An axial pull of 4000N is acting on a bar consisting of three sections of length 30cm, 25cm and
20cm and of diameters 2cm,4cm and 5cm respectively. If the Young’s Modulus
=2×105 N/mm², determine:
i. Stress in each section
ii. Total extension of the bar
[Ans. (i) 127.32,31.8, 20.37N/mm²,(ii)0.025]

Problem 9
The ultimate stress for a hollow steel column which carries an axial load of 2MN is
500N/mm². If the external diameter of the column is 250mm, determine the internal
diameter. Take the factor of safety as 4.0.
[Ans. -205.25mm]
Problem 10
Problem 2.1 and 2.3 [Strength of materials for technicians by JG Drotsky]

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