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Strength of materials-1

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  1. Differentiate between primary strain and secondary strain.
  2. State the assumptions for evaluating shear stress in a circular shaft subjected to twist.
  3. Define principal planes and principal stresses.
  4. Define thermal stress and thermal strain.
  5. Explain the effect of change in temperature for a composite bar.
  6. What is the difference between Engineering and True Stress Strain curve?
  7. Derive the Torsion Equation.
  8. Differentiate between homogeneity and isotropy.
  9. Differentiate between polar modulus and section modulus.
  10. Discuss the failure for long and short columns.
  11. Find the ratio of second moment of area about the centroidal axis to the second moment of area about the base of a triangle with base : 200 mm and altitude : 600 mm.
  12. A beam of square section with side ‘a’ is used with its diagonal horizontal. Find the section modulus of the beam.
  13. A solid circular shaft is subjected to a bending moment M and torque T. What is the ratio of maximum bending stress to maximum shear stress in the shaft?
  14. What are the assumptions made in simple theory of bending?
  15. What are the shapes of bending moment diagrams in case of : i) Uniformly distributed load, ii) a couple altered at any point of a beam.
  16. What is the ratio of the torques transmitted by a hollow and a solid shaft of the same material, length and weight?
  17. Differentiate between the behaviour of a short column and a long column when subjected to axial load.
  18. Briefly explain moment area method.
  19. Why is the longitudinal stress in a thin cylinder zero?
  20. What do you understand by 0.2% proof stress?
  21. What is statically indeterminate problem?
  22. Explain the difference between ‘primary strain’ and ‘secondary strain’.
  23. How do we graphically represent the principal stresses and planes in 2-D system of stresses?
  24. What do you understand by ‘point of contraflexure’. Does it exist in a cantilever?
  25. State the assumptions made in the theory of simple bending.
  26. State Mohr’s theorem-I as applicable to deflection of beams.
  27. Differentiate between moment of inertia and polar moment of inertia. Which one is used in case of torsion of shafts?
  28. Find the strength of shaft of 25 mm dia having max. shear stress value of 460 MPa.
  29. Differentiate between crushing, buckling and compression.
  30. What do you understand by the terms ‘column’ and ‘strut’.