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Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria - Mechanics of Deformable Bodies - Engineering Sciences Previous Year Questions

Practice Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria - Mechanics of Deformable Bodies - Engineering Sciences previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

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Questions by year

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Difficulty distribution

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Medium 97 54.8%
Easy 78 44.1%
Hard 2 1.1%

Question type distribution

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MCQ 111 62.7%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 57 32.2%
Fill in the blanks 5 2.8%
MSQ 4 2.3%

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Engineering Sciences
177 Qs

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Mechanics of Deformable Bodies
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Paper coverage

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Engineering Sciences (XE) 2026
11 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2025
8 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2024
6 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2023
9 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2022
7 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2021
8 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2020
10 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2019
11 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2018
12 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2017
7 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2016
8 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2015
8 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2014
8 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2013
11 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2012
10 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2011
9 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2010
7 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2009
6 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
13 Qs
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007
8 Qs

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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007
The two-dimensional state of stress at a point is given by
The corresponding Mohr's circle is

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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007

The kind of fracture surface observed in a brittle specimen that fails under a uniaxial tensile test is

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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007

A bar of cross sectional area, A, is loaded as shown in the figure. The normal stress on a section a-a inclined at 45° to the axis of the bar is

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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007
In a two-dimensional state of stress at a point, the maximum shear strain is found to be γmax=500 μm/m. The sum of the normal stresses on two perpendicular planes at that point is 40MPa. (Young's Modulus E=200 GPa; Modulus of rigidity G=80 GPa; Poisson's ratio ν=0.25). The principal stresses at the point are
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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007
A simply supported beam of span L is subjected to a concentrated load P at midspan. The cross-section of the beam is rectangular. The ratio of the shear stress at 1/4th the depth of the beam to the shear stress at the center of the cross-section is
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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007
An open ended thin-walled straight pipe is made of a material that can carry a maximum shear stress of \( \tau_{max} \). The pipe is of diameter, \( d \), and thickness, \( t \). The maximum internal pressure allowable is given by (neglecting the normal stress in the radial direction)
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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007
Two bars of different Young’s moduli, $E_1$ and $E_2$, but with the same cross sectional area, $A$, and coefficient of thermal expansion, $\alpha$, are attached together at one end and fixed at the other as shown in the figure. The construction of this setup was carried out at an ambient temperature of $25^\circ$ Celsius.

The stress in the bars when the temperature is uniformly increased by $10^\circ$ Celsius is
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2007 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2007
A circular shaft of diameter, d, is fixed at one end and subjected to an axial force, P, and a torque, T, at the other end. The torque, T, is equal to Pd/8. The tensile yield stress of the shaft material is σy. A point on the surface of the shaft will yield according to the Tresca yield criterion if P is equal to
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
What is the strain energy stored in the just-deformed copper specimen?
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
Which of the following is true?
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008

A thin walled spherical pressure vessel of mean radius 1000 mm, having a wall thickness of 10 mm is subjected to an internal pressure of 0.8 MPa. The maximum shear stress developed in the wall will be

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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008

Two steel plates of uniform cross section 10 mm x 80 mm are welded together and subjected to an axial load of P=100 kN as shown in the figure. Allowable normal stress (tension and compression) and allowable shear stress for the material of the weld are 100 MPa and 50 MPa respectively and β=25°. Which of the following is true?

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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
Due to this loading, the vertical displacement of the rigid bar at the mid span under the load is

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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
State of stress at a point in a loaded body is given by \(\sigma_x=10\) MPa, \(\sigma_y=0\), \(\sigma_z=-5\) MPa and \(\tau_{xy}=\tau_{yz}=\tau_{zx}=0\). Maximum shear stress at that point is
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
State of stress at a point of a body in a plane stress problem is given by \(\sigma_x = -6\)MPa, \(\sigma_y = 2\) MPa and \(\tau_{xy} = \) MPa. Which of the following is true at that point?
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
For a loaded body representing a two dimensional plane problem, the displacement components along \(x\) and \(y\) at any point \((x,y)\) are \(u=x^2+y^2\), \(v=2y\) respectively. Principal strains at the point \((3,1)\) in the body are
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
A 9 kN tensile load will be applied to a 50 m length steel wire with \(E = 200\) GPa. The normal stress in the wire must not exceed 150 MPa and the increase in the length of the wire should be at most 25 mm. Which among these could be the smallest diameter of the wire so that the wire does not fail?
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
A uniform circular cross section rod made of a brittle material is subjected to a pure torsion. If \(d\) is the diameter of the cross section of the rod and \(σ_{all}\) is the maximum allowable normal stress for the material of the rod, then the maximum twisting moment that can be applied to the rod without failure is
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
A rectangular cross section beam of width \(w = 0.25\) m and depth \(d = 0.4\) m is subjected to a bending moment \(M = 200\) N-m and a uniform axial load of \(P = 200\) N as shown. Measured from the centroidal axis of the beam, normal stress will be zero at a distance of
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2008 · Engineering Sciences · Mechanics of Deformable Bodies · Stress, Strain and Failure Criteria
Engineering Sciences (XE) 2008
Three masses $M, 2M$ and $3M$ are attached by circular cross section wires and are rotated around a vertical axis on a frictionless plane at 4 Hz as shown in the figure. Consider the masses to be concentrated as points. For equal stresses in wires in all the three segments, the cross sectional areas of the wires in the three segments 1, 2 and 3 should be in the ratio

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