SELVAM COLLEGE OF TECHNOLOGY, NAMAKKAL

DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING

Internal Assessment Test – I QUESTION & ANSWER KEY

Programme & Branch BE - Mechanical Semester VIII
CE 8395 – STRENGTH OF MATERIALS
Course Code & Name Date 27.01.2020
FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
Maximum Marks 50 Exam Duration: 90 min.
PART – A (5 × 2 = 10 Marks) Blooms Cos Mark
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS level
1 State Hooke’s law. Re CO1 2
Estimate the load carried by a bar if the axial stress is 10 N/mm2
2 Un CO1 2
and the diameter of bar is 10 mm.
3 What is thermal stress? Re CO1 2
4 Define principle stresses and principal plane. Re CO1 2
Draw the shear force diagram for a cantilever beam of span 4m
5 Ap CO2 2
and carrying a point load of 50 kN at midspan.
PART – B (3 × 10 = 30 Marks)
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
A steel rod of 50 mm diameter is subjected to a force as shown in
figure. Find the elongation of the rod. Take E=2*105 N/mm2 .

6. a Re CO1 10

(OR)
A reinforced concrete column 500 mm x 500 mm in section is
reinforced with 4 steel bars of 25 mm diameter; one in each
b corner, the column is carrying a load of 1000 kN. Find the stresses Ev CO1 10
in the concrete and steel bars.
Take Esteel = 210x103N/mm2 and ECon = 14x103N/mm2.
A steel rod of 3 cm diameter and 5m long is connected to two
grips and the rod is maintained at a temperature of 95◦C.
7.a Determine the stress and pull exerted when the temperature falls Ev CO1 10
to 30◦C, if (i) The ends do not yield, and (ii) The ends yield by
0.12 cm. Take E = 2 x 106 MN/m2 and α = 12 x 10-6 /◦C.
(OR)
A bar 30 mm in diameter was subjected to a tensile load of 54 kN
and measured extension on 300 mm gauge length was 0.112 mm and
b Ev CO1 10
change in diameter was 0.00366 mm. Calculate Poisson’s ratio and
the values of three elastic modulii.
A steel plate 300 mm long. 60 mm wide and 30 mm deep is acted
upon by the forces shown in figure. Determine the change in
volume. Take E = 200 kN/mm2 and Poisson’s ratio = 0.3.

8.a Ev CO1 10

(OR)
 A beam is freely supported over a span of 6m. It carries a UDL of
3kN/m over 1.5m from the left hand support and also from the centre
upto the right hand support. It has, besides, two point loads of 2 and
5kN at 1.5 and 4.5m from left hand support. Construct the SF and BM
diagrams.
b Ap CO2 10

PART – C (1 × 10 = 10 Marks)
A cantilever beam of length 3mm carries the point load as shown in
figure. Draw the shear force and bending moment diagrams for the
cantilever beam.

9 Ap C O2 10

Question Course Outcome(s)

1,2,3,4,6-(a&b), Understand the concepts of stress and strain in simple and compound bars,
7- (a&b), 8- (a) the importance of principal stresses and principal planes.
Understand the load transferring mechanism in beams and stress
5, 8-(b), 9
distribution due to shearing force and bending moment.