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B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION, Second Semester


B.E./B.Tech. DEGREE EXAMINATION,
Second Semester
Mechatronics
CE 251 — STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer ALL questions.
PART A — (10 ? 2 = 20 marks)
1. What is a rigid body and a deformable body?
2. The Youngs modulus of steel is 200 kN/mm2 and concrete is 20 kN/mm2. What is the modular ratio?
3. A cantilever beam is subjected to a moment M at free end. The length of the beam is L. What is the bending moment at fixed end?
4. What is point of contraflexure? Whether point of contraflexure will occur in a cantilever beam?
5. Sketch the shear stress variation across the I–beam cross section due to bending.
6. What is flitched beam?
7. A simply supported circular beam of span 4 m carries a 10 kN load at midspan. The cross section is 100 mm diameter. What is the maximum bending stress?
8. What is close coiled helical spring?
9. What is the diameter of Mohr’s circle if the principal stresses are 40 N/mm2 and 80 N/mm2.
10. Give two examples of conjugate beam with the corresponding real beam.
PART B — (5 ? 16 = 80 marks)
11. A simply supported beam of length 4 m carries two point loads 3 kN each at a distance of 1 m from each end. E = 2 ? 105 N/mm2. I = 108 mm4. Using conjugate beam method determine slope at each end and deflection under each load.
12. (a) Two vertical rods are loaded as shown in Fig. Q 12 (a). N/mm2 N/mm2. Find the stresses in steel and copper rods.

Fig. Q 12 (a)
Or
(b) A steel tube of 30 mm external diameter and 20 mm internal diameter encloses a copper rod of 15 mm diameter. The ends are rigidly joined. The temperature of whole assembly is raised by 190?C. N/mm2 = N/mm2 per ?C, per ?C. Calculate stress in the rod and the tube.
13. (a) Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams for the beam shown in Fig. Q 13 (a)

Fig. Q 13 (a)
Or
(b) A beam of size 150 mm wide, 250 mm deep carries a uniformly distributed load of w kN/m over entire span of 4 m. A concentrated load
1 kN is acting at a distance of 1.2 m from the left support. If the bending stress at a section 1.8 m from the left support is not to exceed 3.25 N/mm2 find the load w.
14. (a) The stiffness of close coiled helical spring is 1.5 N/mm of compression under a maximum load of 60 N. The maximum shear stress in the wire of the spring is 125 N/mm2. The solid length of the spring (when the coils are touching) is 50 mm. Find the diameter of coil, diameter of wire and number of coils. C = 4.5 ? 104 N/mm2.
Or
(b) The stresses at a point in a strained member are shown in Fig. Q 14 (b). The greatest principle stress is 150 N/mm2. Find the value of q. Also find maximum shear stress at that point.

Fig. Q 14 (b)
15. (a) A cantilever beam 4m span carries a point load of 10 kN at free end. Find the deflection and rotation at mid–span using principle of virtual work. EI = 25,000 kNm2.
Or
(b) A simply supported beam of 10 m span carries a uniformly distributed load of 1 kN/m over the entire span. Using Castigliano’s theorem, find the slope at the ends. EI = 30,000 kNm2.


MODEL PAPER
B.E. DEGREE EXAMINATION.
Fourth Semester
Civil Engineering
CE 236 — STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
Time : Three hours Maximum : 100 marks
Answer ALL questions.
PART A — (10 ´ 2 = 20 marks)
1. Calculate the strain energy stored in a bar 2 m long, 50 mm wide and 40 mm thick, when it is subjected to a tensile load of 50 kN. Take E = 200 GPa.
2. A rectangular body 500 mm long, 100 mm wide and 50 mm thick subjected to a shear stress of 80 MPa. Determine the strain energy stored in the body.
Take N = 85 GPa.
3. A fixed beam AB of 5 m span carries a point load of 20 kN at a distance of 2 m from left support. Determine the deflection under the load, if kN–m2.
4. A beam AB of span 3 m is fixed at A and propped at B. Find the reaction at the prop. when it is loaded with a uniformly distributed load of 20 kN/m over its entire span?
5. Define ‘‘buckling load’’.
6. Write the effective length of column for the following end conditions :
(a) Both ends pinned condition
(b) Both ends fixed condition.
7. The internal pressure of a stream drum is 10 N/mm2. The maximum circumferential stress is 85 N/mm2 and maximum longitudinal stress is
22 N/mm2. Find the equivalent tensile stress in a simple tensile test according to the maximum shear stress theory.
8. State strain energy theory.
9. A channel section has flanges 120 mm ´ 20 mm and web 160 mm ´ 10 mm. Determine the shear centre of the channel.
10. List the reason for unsymmetrical bending.
PART B — (5 ´ 16 = 80 marks)
11. Find the vertical displacements of joint V1 of the frame shown in Fig. 11. due to applied loadings. Take N/mm2 and Area of members 1200 mm2.

Fig. 11.
12. (a) Find by Maculay’s method, the central deflection of a fixed beam loaded with uniformly distributed load throughout the span.
Or
(b) A continuous beam ABC consists of two spans AB and BC of lengths 6 m and 8 m. The span AB carries a point load of 120 kN at 4 m from A while the span BC carries a point load at 5 m frame. Find the moments and reactions at supports. Draw SFD and BMD.
13. (a) A 2 m long pin ended column of square cross section is to be made of wood. Assuming E = 12 GPa and allowable stress being limited to
12 MPa, determine the size of the column to support the following loads safely.
(i) 95 kN (ii) 200 kN.
Use factor of safety of 3 and also calculate the Euler’s crippling load for buckling.
Or
(b) A hollow cast iron column whose outside diameter is 200 mm and has a thickness of 20 mm is 4.5 m long and is fixed at both ends. Calculate the safe load by Rankine’s formulae using a factor of safety of 2.5. Find the ratio of Euler’s to Rankine’s loads. Take N/mm2 and Rankine’s constant = and 550 N/mm2.
14. (a) A hollow shaft 30 mm internal diameter and 50 mm external diameter is subjected to a twisting moment of 800 Nm and an axial compressive force of 40 kN. Determine the factor of safety according to strain energy theory, if the yield strength of material is 280 N/mm2 and Poisson’s ratio is 0.3.
Or
(b) The load on a bolt consists of an axial thrust of 8 kN together with a transverse shear force of 4 kN. Calculate the diameter of the bolt according to
(i) Maximum principal stress theory and
(ii) Maximum shear stress theory.
Take F.O.S. = 3, typ = 285 N/mm2 .
15. (a) A curved beam has a T–section as shown in Fig. 15 (a). The inner radius is 300 mm. What is the eccentricity of the section?

Fig. 15 (a)
Or
(b) A thick pipe of 300 mm outer diameter and 200 mm internal diameter is subjected to an internal pressure of 12 MPa. What minimum external pressure can be applied so that the tensile stress in the metal shall not exceed 16 MPa?

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