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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.

24Papers
20Years
66Questions
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Solid Mechanics question pattern

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Questions by year

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Difficulty distribution

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Easy 36 54.5%
Medium 29 43.9%
Hard 1 1.5%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 49 74.2%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 13 19.7%
Fill in the blanks 2 3%
MSQ 2 3%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Civil Engineering
66 Qs

Most asked topics

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Structural Engineering
66 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Solid Mechanics
66 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) 2023 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2022 [Session 2]
2 Qs
Civil Engineering (CE) 2021 [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
7 Qs

Included previous year papers

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Civil Engineering (CE) 20262026
3 questions in this view		2026
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20262026
3 questions in this view		2026
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 1]2025
1 questions in this view		2025
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2025 [Session 2]2025
1 questions in this view		2025
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 1]2024
3 questions in this view		2024
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2024 [Session 2]2024
1 questions in this view		2024
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2023 [Session 2]2023
3 questions in this view		2023
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2022 [Session 2]2022
2 questions in this view		2022
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2021 [Session 2]2021
2 questions in this view		2021
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2020 [Session 2]2020
3 questions in this view		2020
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2019 [Session 2]2019
3 questions in this view		2019
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2018 [Session 2]2018
1 questions in this view		2018
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2017 [Session 2]2017
4 questions in this view		2017
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2016 [Session 2]2016
2 questions in this view		2016
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2015 [Session 1]2015
2 questions in this view		2015
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 1]2014
1 questions in this view		2014
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Civil Engineering (CE) 2014 [Session 2]2014
3 questions in this view		2014
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20132013
3 questions in this view		2013
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20122012
3 questions in this view		2012
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20112011
1 questions in this view		2011
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20102010
3 questions in this view		2010
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20092009
5 questions in this view		2009
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20082008
6 questions in this view		2008
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Civil Engineering (CE) 20072007
7 questions in this view		2007
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2007 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
An axially loaded bar is subjected to a normal stress of 173 MPa. The shear stress in the bar is
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2007 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
For an isotropic material, the relationship between the Young’s modulus (E), shear modulus (G) and Poisson’s ratio (μ) is given by
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2007 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
A metal bar of length 100 mm is inserted between two rigid supports and its temperature is increased by 10°C. If the coefficient of thermal expansion is \(12 \times 10^{-6}\) per °C and the Young's modulus is \(2 \times 10^5\) MPa, the stress in the bar is
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2007 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
A rigid bar is suspended by three rods made of the same material as shown in the figure. The area and length of the central rod are 3A and L, respectively while that of the two outer rods are 2A and 2L, respectively. If a downward force of 50 kN is applied to the rigid bar, the forces in the central and each of the outer rods will be

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2007 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
The maximum and minimum shear stresses in a hollow circular shaft of outer diameter 20 mm and thickness 2 mm, subjected to a torque of 92.7 N·m will be
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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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2007 · Civil Engineering · Structural Engineering · Solid Mechanics
Civil Engineering (CE) 2007
U₁ and U₂ are the strain energies stored in a prismatic bar due to axial tensile forces P₁ and P₂, respectively. The strain energy U stored in the same bar due to combined action of P₁ and P₂ will be
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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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