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Solid Mechanics - Structural Engineering - Civil Engineering Previous Year Questions

Practice Solid Mechanics - Structural Engineering - Civil Engineering previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

22Papers
18Years
55Questions
1Topics

Solid Mechanics question pattern

Every graph below is calculated only from this selection.

Questions by year

Year-wise coverage for Solid Mechanics. Each bar uses a separate theme-derived color.

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Easy 31 56.4%
Medium 23 41.8%
Hard 1 1.8%

Question type distribution

MCQ, numerical, multiple-select and other formats found in these papers.

MCQ 41 74.5%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 10 18.2%
Fill in the blanks 2 3.6%
MSQ 2 3.6%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Civil Engineering
55 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Structural Engineering
55 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Solid Mechanics
55 Qs

Paper coverage

Question coverage for the most populated papers. Every active PYP paper remains listed below.

Civil Engineering (CE) 2026
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2026
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 1]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2022 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]
4 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2013
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2012
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2011
1 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2010
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2009
5 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2008
6 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
1 Qs

Included previous year papers

Newest papers appear first. Sort by year, question coverage or name.

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Civil Engineering (CE) 202620263View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 202620263View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]20251View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]20251View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 1]20243View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 2]20241View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2022 [Session 2]20222View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]20203View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]20193View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]20181View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]20174View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]20162View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]20152View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]20141View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]20143View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201320133View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201220123View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201120111View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 201020103View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 200920095View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 200820086View paper
Civil Engineering (CE) 200720071View paper

All Solid Mechanics previous year questions

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2007 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
The shear stress at the neutral axis in a beam of triangular section with a base of 40 mm and height 20 mm, subjected to a shear force of 3 kN is
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2014 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]
The possible location of shear centre of the channel section, shown below, is
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2014 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
For the state of stresses (in MPa) shown in the figure below, the maximum shear stress (in MPa) is __________
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2014 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
The first moment of area about the axis of bending for a beam cross-section is
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2014 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]
Polar moment of inertia (\(I_p\), in cm\(^4\)) of a rectangular section having width, \(b = 2\) cm and depth, \(d = 6\) cm is __________
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2015 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
Two triangular wedges are glued together as shown in the following figure. The stress acting normal to the interface, \( \sigma_n \), is __________ MPa.

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2015 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]
A tapered circular rod of diameter varying from 20 mm to 10 mm is connected to another uniform circular rod of diameter 10 mm as shown in the following figure. Both bars are made of same material with the modulus of elasticity, $E = 2 \times 10^5$ MPa. When subjected to a load $P = 30\pi$ kN, the deflection at point A is ___________ mm.

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2016 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]
An elastic isotropic body is in a hydrostatic state of stress as shown in the figure. For no change in the volume to occur, what should be its Poisson's ratio?

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2016 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]
For the stress state (in MPa) shown in the figure, the major principal stress is 10 MPa. The shear stress \(\tau\) is

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2017 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]
In a material under a state of plane strain, a 10×10 mm square centered at a point gets deformed as shown in the figure.
If the shear strain \( \gamma_{xy} \) at this point is expressed as \( 0.001k \) (in rad), the value of \( k \) is

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2017 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]
Two prismatic beams having the same flexural rigidity of 1000 kN-m² are shown in the figures.

If the mid-span deflections of these beams are denoted by \( \delta_1 \) and \( \delta_2 \) (as indicated in the figures), the correct option is

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2017 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]

A hollow circular shaft has an outer diameter of 100 mm and inner diameter of 50 mm. If the allowable shear stress is 125 MPa, the maximum torque (in kN-m) that the shaft can resist is __________

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2017 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]
A 2 m long, axially loaded mild steel rod of 8 mm diameter exhibits the load-displacement (P-δ) behavior as shown in the figure.

Assume the yield stress of steel as 250 MPa. The complementary strain energy (in N-mm) stored in the bar up to its linear elastic behavior will be __________

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2018 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]
An 8 m long simply-supported elastic beam of rectangular cross-section (100 mm × 200 mm) is subjected to a uniformly distributed load of 10 kN/m over its entire span. The maximum principal stress (in MPa, up to two decimal places) at a point located at the extreme compression edge of a cross-section and at 2 m from the support is ______
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2019 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]
A closed thin-walled tube has thickness, \(t\), mean enclosed area within the boundary of the centerline of tube’s thickness, \(A_m\), and shear stress, \(\tau\). Torsional moment of resistance, \(T\), of the section would be
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2019 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]

For a channel section subjected to a downward vertical shear force at its centroid, which one of the following represents the correct distribution of shear stress in flange and web?

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2019 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]

For a plane stress problem, the state of stress at a point P is represented by the stress element as shown in figure. By how much angle (θ) in degrees the stress element should be rotated in order to get the planes of maximum shear stress?

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2020 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
The state of stress represented by Mohr's circle shown in the figure is

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2020 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
A weightless cantilever beam of span L is loaded as shown in the figure. For the entire span of the beam, the material properties are identical and the cross section is rectangular with constant width.
From the flexure-critical perspective, the most economical longitudinal profile of the beam to carry the given loads amongst the options given below, is

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2020 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]
A prismatic linearly elastic bar of length L, cross-sectional area A, and made up of a material with Young’s modulus E, is subjected to axial tensile force as shown in the figures. When the bar is subjected to axial tensile forces P1 and P2, the strain energies stored in the bar are U1 and U2, respectively.
If U is the strain energy stored in the same bar when subjected to an axial tensile force (P1 + P2), the correct relationship is

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