USN 14CSE11

First Semester M.Tech. Degree Examination, Dec.2016/Jan.2017

Computational Structural Mechanics
2. Any revealing of identification, appeal to evaluator and /or equations written eg, 42+8 = 50, will be treated as malpractice.

Time: 3 hrs. Max. Marks:100

Note: Answer any FIVE full questions.

1 a. Define Static and Kinematic indeterminacy, with an example. (04 Marks)

b. Explain the principal of minimum potential energy. (04 Marks)
Important Note : 1. On completing your answers, compulsorily draw diagonal cross lines on the remaining blank pages.

c. Develop the flexibility and stiffness matrix with respect to the co-ordinates shown in
fig. Q1(c) and show that [K] = [f]-1. (12 Marks)

Fig.Q1(c)

2 Analyse the continuous beam shown in fig. Q2 by flexibility transformation method. Support B
sinks down by 10mm. EI = 5 × 104 KN m2. Find MA and MB. (20 Marks)

Fig.Q2

3 Analyse the plane truss shown in fig. Q3 by flexibility transformation approach. AE constant.
Find the forces in the members AB, AC and AD. (20 Marks)

Fig.Q3

4 a. Derive the relation between local and global flexibility matrix using transformation matrix.
(06 Marks)
b. Develop the transformation matrix and global flexibility matrix for the rigid plane frame
shown in fig. Q4(b). (14 Marks)

Fig.Q4(b)

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5 Analyse the continuous beam shown in fig. Q5 by stiffness method using transformation matrix
approach. (20 Marks)

Fig.Q5

6 Analyse the rigid frame by stiffness method by transformation matrix method. Refer fig.Q6.
Assume all members to be axially rigid. (20 Marks)

Fig.Q6

7 Analyse the truss shown in fig. Q7 by flexibility method if member AD is short by 4mm.
AE = 240 × 103 kN. (20 Marks)

Fig.Q7

8 a. Explain Bandwidth and its minimization. (06 Marks)

b. Solve the following linear simultaneous equation by Gaussian elimmation method.
x + 2y + 3z = 1
4x + 5y + z = 1
6y + 3z = 6. (14 Marks)

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