Q. Two shafts 'A' and 'B' are made of same material. The shaft 'A' is of diameter D and shaft 'B' is of diameter D/2. The strength of shaft 'B' is __________ as that of shaft 'A'

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Q. A body is subjected to a direct tensile stress (σ) in one plane. The shear stress is maximum at a section inclined at __________ to the normal of the section.

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Q. The bending moment on a section is maximum where shear force is

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Q. The springs in cars are used to store strain energy.

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Q. The unit of Young's modulus is same as that of stress.

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Q. According to Euler's column theory, the crippling load for a column of length (L) with one end fixed and the other end hinged, is

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Q. The pull required to shear off a rivet, in double shear, per pitch length is

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Q. Lame's theory is associated with

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Q. The ductility of the material __________ with the decrease in percentage elongation of a specimen under tensile test.

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Q. The shear force diagram of a cantilever beam of length l and carrying a uniformly distributed load of w per unit length will be

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Q. Whenever some external system of forces acts on a body, it undergoes some deformation. As the body undergoes some deformation, it sets up some resistance to the deformation. This resistance per unit area to deformation, is called

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Q. The longitudinal stress in a riveted cylindrical shell of diameter (d), thickness (t) and subjected to an internal pressure (p) is

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Q. Two solid shafts 'A' and 'B' are made of the same material. The shaft 'A' is of 50 mm diameter and shaft 'B' is of 100 mm diameter. The strength of shaft 'B' is __________ as that of shaft A.

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Q. In calculating the strength of a riveted joint in tearing, shearing and crushing, the

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Q. The tensile test is carried on __________ materials.

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Q. If percentage elongation of a certain specimen made of a material 'A' under tensile test is 30% and the percentage elongation of a specimen with same dimensions made of another material 'B' is 40%, then material 'B' is more ductile than material 'A'.

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Q. A fixed beam is one which is fixed at __________ of its ends.

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Q. Factor of safety is defined as the ratio of

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Q. The value of equivalent length is taken to be half of the actual length of a column with one end fixed and the other end free.

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Q. The strain energy stored in a hollow circular shaft of outer diameter (D) and inner diameter (d) subjected to shear stress is

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