Strength of Materials
Short Answer Questions – 2 marks
Unit - 1
1. Define stress and write its formula.
2. What is strain? State its unit.
3. State Hooke’s Law in terms of stress and strain.
4. Define Poisson’s ratio. What is its typical range of values?
5. What is the difference between normal stress and shear stress?
6. Explain the term principal stresses.
7. What are principal planes?
8. What is the relation between principal strains and principal stresses?
9. Write the formula for thermal stress in a bar fixed at both ends.
10. State one practical example where thermal stress is developed.
11. What is Mohr’s Circle and why is it used in stress analysis?
12. Define compound stress and strain with an example.
13. What are hydrostatic stresses? Give one practical situation where they occur.
14. Derive the expression for stress in a tapered bar subjected to an axial load.
15. How can principal stress be obtained graphically using Mohr’s Circle?
Unit – 2
1. What is torsion? Explain with equation
2. What are the assumptions made in torsion?
3. What is simple bending theory? Explain with equation.
4. What are the assumptions made in simple bending?
5. Define section modulus?
6. What is Modular ratio?
7. Explain power transmitted by a shaft with the equation.
8. Explain strain energy stored in a shaft with the equation.
9. Define springs and classify them.
10. What do you mean by helical springs and what are its types?
Descriptive Questions – 5 marks
Unit – 1
1. A rod 200 cm long and of diameter 3.0 cm is subjected to an axial pull of 30 kN. If the
Young’s modulus of the material of the rod is 2 × 105 N/mm2, determine: (i) stress, (ii)
strain and (iii) the elongation of the rod.
2. A member formed by connecting a steel bar to an aluminum bar is shown in the below
Figure. Calculate the magnitude of force P, that will cause the total length of the
member to decrease 0.30 mm. The values of elastic modulus for steel and aluminum
are 2 × 105N/mm2 and 6.5x104 N/mm2 respectively.
3. The extension in a rectangular steel bar of 800 mm in length and of thickness 20 mm,
is found to be 0.21 mm. The bar tapers uniformly in width from 80 mm to 40 mm. If E
for the bar is 2 × 105 N/mm2, determine the axial tensile load on the bar.
4. At a point within a body subjected to two mutually perpendicular directions, the
stresses are 100 MPa (tensile) and 75 MPa (tensile). Each of the above stresses is
accompanied by a shear stress of 75 MPa. Determine the normal, shear and resultant
stresses on an oblique plane inclined at an angle of 45° with the axis of minor tensile
stress.
5. A point in a strained material is subjected to stresses shown in the below Figure.
Using Mohr’s circle method, determine the normal and tangential stresses across the
oblique plane. Check the answer analytically.
6. A rectangular bar of cross-sectional area 10000 mm2 is subjected to a tensile load P
as shown in the below Figure. The permissible normal and shear stresses on the
oblique plane BC are given as 8 MPa and 4 MPa respectively. Determine the safe value
of P.
Descriptive Questions – 5 marks
Unit – 2
1. Derive an expression for the shear stress produced in a circular shaft which is
subjected to torsion.
2. A solid shaft of 20 cm diameter is used to transmit torque. Find the maximum
torque transmitted by the shaft if the maximum shear stress induced in the shaft
is 50 N/mm2.
3. Derive an expression for torque transmitted by a solid shaft when subjected to
torsion.
4. A hollow shaft, having an internal diameter 50% of its external diameter transmits
600 kW at 150 r.p.m. Determine the external diameter of the shaft if the shear
stress is not to exceed 65 N/mm2 and the twist in a length of 3 m should not exceed
1.4 degrees. Assume maximum torque = 1.20 mean torque and modulus of rigidity
= 1 × 105 N/mm2.
5. A solid shaft has to transmit 112.5 kW at 250 r.p.m. Taking allowable shear stress
as 70 MPa, find suitable diameter for the shaft, if the maximum torque transmitted
at each revolution exceeds the mean by 20%.
6. A closely-coiled helical spring is to carry a load of 1 kN. It’s mean coil diameter is
to be 10 times that of wire diameter. Calculate these diameters if the maximum
shear stress in the material of the spring is to be 90 MPa.
