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Practice – FAQ’s from Strength of Materials

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1. A cable with a uniformly distributed load perhorizontal metre run will take the following shape

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2. In ideal machines

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3. In actual machines

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4. The angle which an inclined plane makes with thehorizontal when a body placed on it is about to movedown is known as angle of

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5. In the lever of third order, load W, effort P andfulcrum F are oriented as follows

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6. A pair of smith’s tongs is an example of the lever of

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7. Which of the following is the example of lever of firstorder

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8. The M.I. of hollow circular section about a centralaxis perpendicular to section as compared to its M.I.about horizontal axis is

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9. The C.G. of a right circular solid cone of height h liesat the following distance from the base

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10. The C.G. of a plane lamina will not be at itsgeometrical centre in the case of a

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11. If three forces acting in different planes can berepresented by a triangle, these will be in

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12. A body moves, from rest with a constant accelerationof 5 m per sec. The distance covered in 5 sec is mostnearly

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13. A flywheel on a motor goes from rest to 1000 rpm in6 sec. The number of revolutions made is nearly equal to

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14. The C.G. of a solid hemisphere lies on the centralradius 3r

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15. A sample of metal weighs 219 gms in air, 180 gms inwater, 120 gms in an unknown fluid. Then which iscorrect statement about density of metal

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16. Which of the following is the locus of a point thatmoves in such a manner that its distance from a fixedpoint is equal to its distance from a fixed line multipliedby a constant greater than one

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17. Which of the following is not the unit of energy

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18. If n = number of members andy = number of joints,then for a perfect frame, n =

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19. The necessary condition for forces to be inequilibrium is that these should be

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20. The maximum frictional force which comes into playwhen a body just begins to slide over another surface iscalled

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21. If three forces acting in one plane upon a rigid body,keep it in equilibrium, then they must either

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22. The co-efficient of friction depends upon

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23. A particle inside a hollow sphere of radius r, havingcoefficient of friction -rr can rest upto height of

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24. The algebraic sum of moments of the forces formingcouple about any point in their plane is

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25. The effort required to lift a load W on a screw jackwith helix angle a and angle of friction

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26. A semi-circular disc rests on a horizontal surface withits top flat surface horizontal and circular portiontouching down. The coefficient of friction between semi-cricular disc and horizontal surface is i. This disc is to bepulled by a horizontal force applied at one edge and italways remains horizontal. When the disc is about tostart moving, its top horizontal force will

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27. A single force and a couple acting in the same planeupon a rigid body

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28. Kinetic friction is the

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29. Tangent of angle of friction is equal to

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30. Dynamic friction as compared to static friction is

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31. Coulomb friction is the friction between

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32. A projectile is fired at an angle 9 to the vertical. Itshorizontal range will be maximum when 9 is

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33. Limiting force of friction is the

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34. Shear stress induced in a shaft subjected to tensionwill be

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35. If rain is falling in the opposite direction of themovement of a pedestrain, he has to hold his umbrella

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36. In a belt drive, the pulley diameter is doubled, the belttension and pulley width remaining same. The changesrequired in key will be

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37. A key is subjected to side pressure as well at shearingforces. These pressures are called

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38. The value of shear stress which is induced in the shaftdue to the applied couple varies

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39. The torsional rigidity of a shaft is expressed by the

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40. The safe twisting moment for a compound shaft isequal to the

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41. Longitudinal stress in a thin cylinder is

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42. A cylindrical section having no joint is known as

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43. A boiler shell 200 cm diameter and plate thickness 1.5cm is subjected to internal pressure of 1.5 MN/m , thenthe hoop stress will be

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44. The force acting along the circumference will causestress in the walls in a direction normal to thelongitudinal axis of cylinder; this stress is called

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45. The deformation of a bar under its own weightcompared to the deformation of same body subjected to adirect load equal to weight of the body is

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46. The weakest section of a diamond riveting is thesection which passes through

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47. Rivets are made of following type of material

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48. Diamond riveted joint can be adopted in the case offollowing type of joint

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49. When two plates are butt together and riveted withcover plates with two rows of rivets, the joi;it is known as

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50. The distance between the centres of the rivets inadjacent rows of zig-zag riveted joint is known as

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51. Efficiency of a riveted joint is the ratio of its strength(max. load it can resist without failure) to the strength ofthe unpunched plate in

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52. A riveted joint in which every rivet of a row isopposite to other rivet of the outer row, is known as

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53. A riveted joint in which the number otrivets decreasefrom innermost to outer most row is called

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54. If the rivets in adjacent rows are staggered and theoutermost row has only one rivet, the arrangement of therivets is called

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55. In riveted boiler joints, all stresses, shearing, bearingand tensile are based on the

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56. In a prismatic member made of two materials sojoined that they deform equally under axial stress, theunit stresses in two materials are

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57. A non-yielding support implies that the

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58. The ratio of elongation in a prismatic bar due to itsown weight (W) as compared to another similar barcarrying an additional weight (W) will be

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59. A beam is loaded as cantilever. If the load at the end isincreased, the failure will occur

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60. A material capable of absorbing large amount ofenergy before fracture is known as

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61. The strain energy stored in a body due to suddenlyapplied load compared to when it is applied gradually is

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62. The stress induced in a body due to suddenly appliedload compared to when it is applied gradually is

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63. Proof resilience per material is known as

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64. The maximum strain energy that can be stored in abody is known as

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65. The total strain energy stored in a body is termed as

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66. Resilience of a material is considered when it issubjected to

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67. The energy absorbed in a body, when it is strainedwithin the elastic limits, is known as

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68. Flow stress corresponds to

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69. When it is indicated that a member is elastic, it meansthat when force is applied, it will

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70. In question 56, the internal reaction in bottom 80 cmlength will be

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71. The stress at which extension of the material takesplace more quickly as compared to the increase in load iscalled

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72. The ratio of direct stress to volumetric strain in caseof a body subjected to three mutually perpendicularstresses of equal intensity, is equal to

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73. The ratio of lateral strain to the linear strain withinelastic limit is known as

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74. The elasticity of various materials is controlled by its

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75. Rupture stress is

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76. The stress necessary to initiate yielding is

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77. In the tensile test, the phenomenon of slow extensionof the material, i. e. stress increasing with the time at aconstant load is called

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78. The stress developed in a material at breaking pointin extension is called

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79. If a material expands freely due to heating it willdevelop

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80. The property of a material by virtue of which it can bebeaten or rolled into plates is called

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81. The change in the unit volume of a material undertension with increase in its Poisson’s ratio will ,

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82. The percentage reduction in area of a cast ironspecimen during tensile test would be of the order of

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83. In a tensile test, near the elastic limit zone, the

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84. For which material the Poisson’s ratio is more thanunity

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85. The property of a material which allows it to be drawninto a smaller section is called

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86. Poisson’s ratio is defined as the ratio of

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87. The value of Poisson’s ratio for cast iron is

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88. The property of a material by virtue of which a bodyreturns to its original, shape after removal of the load iscalled

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89. The materials which exhibit the same elasticproperties in all directions are called

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90. The buckling load for a given material depends on

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91. Which of the following materials is most elastic

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92. In a tensile test on mild steel specimen, the breakingstress as compared to ultimate tensile stress is

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93. If a part is constrained to move and heated, it willdevelop

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94. Which is the false statement about true stress-strainmethod

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95. The value of modulus of elasticity for mild steel is ofthe order of

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96. The value of Poisson’s ratio for steel is between

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97. The total elongation produced in a bar of uniformsection hanging vertically downwards due to its ownweight is equal to that produced by a weight

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98. Which of the following has no unit

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99. For steel, the ultimate strength in shear as comparedto in tension is nearly

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100. During a tensile test on a specimen of 1 cm cross-section, maximum load observed was 8 tonnes and areaof cross-section at neck was 0.5 cm2. Ultimate tensilestrength of specimen is

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101. Percentage reduction of area in performing tensiletest on cast iron may be of the order of

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102. The intensity of stress which causes unit strain iscalled

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103. True stress-strain curve for materials is plottedbetween

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104. The impact strength of a material is an index of its

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105. The Young’s modulus of a wire is defined as the stresswhich will increase the length of wire compared to itsoriginal length

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106. Tensile strength of a material is obtained by dividingthe maximum load during the test by the

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107. If the radius of wire stretched by a load is doubled,then its Young’s modulus will be

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108. The ultimate tensile stress of mild steel compared toultimate compressive stress is

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109. A thin mild steel wire is loaded by adding loads in equalincrements till it breaks. The extensions noted withincreasing loads will behave as under

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110. Modulus of rigidity is defined as the ratio of

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111. The materials having same elastic properties in alldirections are called

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112. It equal and opposite forces applied to a body tend toelongate it, the stress so produced is called

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113. Deformation per unit length in the direction of force isknown as

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114. The unit of Young’s modulus is

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115. Young’s modulus is defined as the ratio of

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116. Hooke’s law holds good up to

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117. Strain is defined as the ratio of

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