R.M.K.

COLLEGE OF ENGINEERING AND TECHNOLOGY

RSM Nagar, Kavaraipettai – 601 206

CE 8395 – Strength of Materials for Mechanical Engineers

Part-A

1. What is Hooke’s Law?

2. Distinguish between a rigid body and a deformable body

3. Define stress and strain at a body under external loads

4. State Hooke’s Law.

5. What is principle of superposition?

6. State the relationship between young’s modulus and modulus of rigidity.

7. Define tensile stress and compressive stress.

8. State the relationship between the modulus of elasticity, rigidity modulus, bulk modulus and Poisson’s ratio.

9. Find the Young’s modulus of a rod of diameter 30 mm and of length 300 mm which is subjected to a tensile
load at 60 kN and the extension of the rod is equal to 0.4 mm.

10. What are the Elastic Constants?

11. Define young’s Modulus.

12. Define composite bar.

13. Define thermal stress.

14. What is compound bar?

15. Define factor of safety.

16. What is poisson’s ratio?

17. Define volumetric strain.

18. Define Poisson’s Ratio

19. Define Bulk modulus.

20. Define longitudinal strain and lateral strain.

21. Define principal planes and principal stresses.

22. What is the use of Mohr’s circle?

23. What is Mohr’s Circle of stresses?

24. Draw the Mohr’s circle for the state of pure shear in a strained body and mark all salient points in it.

25. Sketch the types of loads that generally come on beams.

26. What are the types of beams?

27. What are the different types of loading?

28. Define shear force and bending moment.

29. What do you mean by the point of contraflexure?

30. What is meant by positive or sagging BM?

31. What is meant by negative or hogging BM?

32. Draw a typical shear force and bending moment diagram for a cantilever of length ‘L’ carrying a tip load.

33. Define bending moment in a beam.

34. When will bending moment be maximum.

35. What is the relation between the shear force and bending moment of a beam ?
36. Draw the shear force diagram for a cantilever beam of span 4 m and carrying a point load of 50 KN at mid span

37. Write the equation for the simple bending theory.

38. Write the assumption in the theory of simple bending.

39. What is a neutral axis of a beam section? How do you locate it for a beam in simple bending?

40. What is meant by neutral axis of a beam ?

41. What do you mean by section modulus ?

42. Sketch a typical bending stress distribution across a beam section in simple bending.

43. Write the expression for section modulus.

44. Sketch the shear stress stress distribution diagram across the depth of a T Section.

Part – B ( 2 x 13 = 26 Marks)

1. Find the value of P and the change in length of each component and the total change in length of the
bar shown in figure.Take E = 200GPa

2. 1. (i). Find the young’s modulus of a rod of diameter 30mm and of length 300mm which is subjected
to a tensile load of 60 KN and the extension of the rod is equal to 0.4 mm.

(ii). The ultimate stress for a hollow steel column which carries an axial load of 2 MN is 500
N/mm2. If the external diameter of the column is 250mm, determine the internal diameter. Take the
factor of safety as 4.0.

3. A steel rod ABCD 4.5m long and 25mm in diameter is subjected to the forces as shown in figure.
 A B C D
60kN 50kN
10kN 20kN

2m 1m 1.5m

If the value of Young’s modulus for the steel is 200GPa, determine its deformation.

4. A member PQRS is subjected to point load as shown in figure.

Determine the total change in length of the member. Take E = 200GPa.

A=300mm2 A=500mm2 A=400mm2

5. A steel bar ABCD 4m long is subjected to forces as shown in figure

10kN 20kN
40kN 50kN

Find the elongation

200mmof the bar. Take E for the600mm
steel as 200 GPa. 200mm
6. A block shown in figure weighing 35 kN is supported by three wires. The outer two wires are of steel
and have an area of 100 mm2 each, where as the middle wire is of aluminium and has an area of 200
mm2. If the elastic moduli of steel and aluminium are 200 GPa and 80 GPa respectively, then
calculate the stresses in the aluminium and steel wires.
Aluminium
Steel

Steel

35kN

7. A load of 2 MN is applied on a short concrete column 500 mm x 500 mm. The column is reinforced
 with four steel bars of 10 mm diameter, one in each corner. Find the stresses in the concrete and steel
bars. Take E for steel as 2.1 x 105 N/mm2and for concrete as 1.4 x 105 N/mm2

8. A reinforced concrete column 500mm x 500mm in section is reinforced with 4 steel bars of 25mm
diameter, one in each corner. The column is carrying a load of 1000 kN. Find the stresses in the
concrete and steel bars. Take E for steel = 210 GPa and E for concrete = 14 GPa.

9. A rod is 2m long is at a temperature of 10°C. Find the expansion of the rod, when the temperature is
raised to 80°C. If this expansion is prevented, find the stresses induced in the material of the rod.
Take E = 1.0 x 105 MN/m2 and  = 0.000012 / °C.

10. A Mild steel rod of 20 mm diameter and 300 mm long is enclosed centrally inside a hollow copper
tube of external diameter 30 mm and internal diameter 25 mm. The ends of the rod and tube are
brazed together, and the composite bar is subjected to an axial pull of 40 KN. If E for steel and copper
is 200 GN/m2 and 100 GN/m2 respectively, find the stresses developed in the rod and the tube also find
the extension of the rod.

11. A Simply supported beam of effective span 6 m carries three point loads of 30 KN, 25 KN and 40 KN
at 1m, 3m and 4.5m respectively from the left support. Draw the SFD and BMD indicating values at
salient points.

12. Draw the shear force and bending moment diagram for a simply supported beam of length 10m and
carrying a uniformly distributed load of 10 KN/m for a distance of 6 m from the left end. Also
calculate the maximum B.M. on the section.

13. A cantilever beam AB, 2 m long carries a uniformly distributed load of 1.5 KN/m over a length of 1.6
m from the free end. Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams for the beam.

14. A Simply supported beam of length 6 m carries point loads of 3 KN and 6 KN at distances of 2 m and
4 m from the left support. Draw the S.F and B.M diagrams for the beam.

15. A cantilever 1.5m long is loaded with a uniformly distributed load of 3 KN/m run over a length of
1.25m from the free end. It also carries a point load of 2 KN at a distance of 0.25m from the free end.
Draw the shear force and bending moment diagram of the cantilever.

16. A beam is simply supported and carries a uniformly distributed load of 40 kN/m run over the whole
span. The section of the beam is rectangular having depth as 500mm. If the maximum stress in the
material of the beam is 120 N/mm2 and moment of inertia of the section is 7 x 108 mm4, find the span
of the beam.

17. Calculate the maximum stress induced in a cast iron pipe of external diameter 40 mm and of internal
diameter 20 mm and of length 4 m when the pipe is supported at its ends and carries a point load of 80
 N at its centre.

18. A rectangular beam 200 mm deep and 300 mm wide is simply supported over a span of 8 m. What
uniformly distributed load per metre the beam may carry, if the bending stress is not to exceed 120 N /
mm2

19. A square beam 20 mm x 20 mm in section and 2 m long is supported at the ends. The beam fails when
a point load of 400 N is applied at the centre of the beam. What uniformly distributed load per metre
length will break a cantilever of the same material 40 mm wide, 60 mm and deep and 3 m long.

20. A timber beam of rectangular section is to support a load of 20 kN uniformly distributed over a span
of 3.6 m when is simply supported. If the depth of section is to be twice the breadth, and the stress in
the timber is not exceed 7 N/mm2, find the dimensions of the cross-section.

Part – C ( 1 x 14 = 14 Marks)

21. Determine the changes in length, breadth and thickness of a steel bar which is 4m long, 30mm wide
and 20mm thick and is subjected to an axial pull of 30kN in the direction of its length. Take E = 2 x
105 N/mm2 and Poisson’s ratio = 0.3.

22. A rectangular bar 500 mm long and 100 mm x 50 mm in cross-section is subjected to forces as shown
in figure.
300kN

100kN

100

50
500
200kN

What is the change in the volume of the bar? Take modulus of elasticity for the bar material as 200
GPa and Poisson’s ratio as 0.25.

23. A bar of 30 mm diameter is subjected to a pull of 60kN. The measured extension on a gauge length of
200 mm is 0.09 mm, and the change in diameter is 0.0039 mm. Calculate the Poisson’s ratio and the
values of the elastic constants.

24. A steel bar 50 mm x 50 mm in section is 1.2 m long. It is subjected axial pull of 200 kN. What are the
changes in length, width and volume of the bar, if the value of Poisson’s ratio is 0.3? Take E as 200
GPa.

25. Determine the changes in length, breadth and thickness of a steel bar which is 4m long, 30mm wide
 and 20mm thick and is subjected to an axial pull of 30kN in the direction of its length. Take E = 2 x
105 N/mm2 and Poisson’s ratio = 0.3.

26. Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams for the beam as shown in figure. Indicate the
numerical values at all sections.

27. Draw the S.F. and B.M. diagrams for a simply supported beam carrying a uniformly

distributed load of w per unit length over the entire span. Also calculate the maximum B.M.
4.5 kN/m
28. An overhanging beam ABC is loaded as shown in figure.

A B C
3m 1m

Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams and find the point of contraflexture, if any

29. Draw the S.F. and B.M. diagrams of a simply supported beam of length 7m carrying uniformly
distributed loads as shown in figure.

30. A Simply supported beam 6 metre span carries UDL of 20 KN/m for left half of span and two point
loads of 25 KN end 35 KN at 4 m and 5 m from left support. Find maximum SF and BM and their
location by drawing SF and BM diagrams.