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Mechanics of Materials - Applied Mechanics and Design - Mechanical Engineering Previous Year Questions

Practice Mechanics of Materials - Applied Mechanics and Design - Mechanical Engineering previous year questions organised from real papers, with year-wise coverage and clear topic navigation.

28Papers
17Years
141Questions
1Topics

Mechanics of Materials question pattern

Every graph below is calculated only from this selection.

Questions by year

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

Difficulty distribution

How the classified questions are distributed by difficulty.

Medium 80 56.7%
Easy 61 43.3%

Question type distribution

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

MCQ 88 62.4%
Numerical Answer Type (NAT) 45 31.9%
MSQ 5 3.5%
Fill in the blanks 3 2.1%

Subject weightage

Top subjects by unique question coverage.

Mechanical Engineering
141 Qs

Most asked topics

Top topics across the included previous year papers.

Applied Mechanics and Design
141 Qs

Subtopic coverage

Top subtopics inside this exact selection.

Mechanics of Materials
141 Qs

Paper coverage

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

Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2026
6 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2025
5 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2024
3 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2023
11 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2021 [Session 1]
5 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2020 [Session 1]
4 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2020 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2019 [Session 1]
9 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2019 [Session 2]
6 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 1]
8 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 2]
5 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 1]
6 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 2]
6 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 3]
5 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 2]
1 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 2]
6 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 3]
5 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 1]
4 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 4]
4 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 4]
4 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 1]
3 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 2]
3 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 3]
3 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2011
6 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2010
3 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2009
3 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008
8 Qs
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007
8 Qs

Included previous year papers

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

PaperYear / sessionQuestions in this viewOpen
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 202620266View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 202520255View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 202420243View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2023202311View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2021 [Session 1]20215View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2020 [Session 1]20204View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2020 [Session 2]20201View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2019 [Session 1]20199View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2019 [Session 2]20196View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 1]20188View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2018 [Session 2]20185View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 1]20166View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 2]20166View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2016 [Session 3]20165View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2015 [Session 2]20151View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 1]20144View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 2]20146View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 3]20145View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2014 [Session 4]20144View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 1]20133View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 2]20133View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 3]20133View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2013 [Session 4]20134View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 201120116View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 201020103View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 200920093View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 200820088View paper
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 200720078View paper

All Mechanics of Materials previous year questions

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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007

In a simply-supported beam loaded as shown below, the maximum bending moment in Nm is

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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007

A steel rod of length L and diameter D, fixed at both ends, is uniformly heated to a temperature rise of ΔT. The Young’s modulus is E and the coefficient of linear expansion is α. The thermal stress in the rod is

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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007

A uniformly loaded propped cantilever beam and its free body diagram are shown below. The reactions are

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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007
A 200 x 100 x 50 mm steel block is subjected to a hydrostatic pressure of 15 MPa. The Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of the material are 200 GPa and 0.3 respectively. The change in the volume of the block in mm³ is
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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007

A stepped steel shaft shown below is subjected to 10 Nm torque. If the modulus of rigidity is 80 GPa, the strain energy in the shaft in N mm is

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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007
In orthogonal turning of low carbon steel pipe with principal cutting edge angle of 90°, the main cutting force is 1000 N and the feed force is 800 N. The shear angle is 25° and orthogonal rake angle is zero. Employing Merchant's theory, the ratio of friction force to normal force acting on the cutting tool is
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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007
The normal and shear stresses in MPa at point P are respectively
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2007 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2007
The maximum principal stress in MPa and the orientation of the corresponding principal plane in degrees are respectively
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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008

The transverse shear stress acting in a beam of rectangular cross-section, subjected to a transverse shear load, is

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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008
A rod of length \(L\) and diameter \(D\) is subjected to a tensile load \(P\). Which of the following is sufficient to calculate the resulting change in diameter?
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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008

The strain energy stored in the beam with flexural rigidity EI and loaded as shown in the figure is

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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008

For the component loaded with a force F as shown in the figure, the axial stress at the corner point P is

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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008

A solid circular shaft of diameter 100 mm is subjected to an axial stress of 50 MPa. It is further subjected to a torque of 10 kNm. The maximum principal stress experienced on the shaft is closest to

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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008

The rod PQ of length L and with flexural rigidity EI is hinged at both ends. For what minimum force F is it expected to buckle?

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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008
The axial and circumferential stress (σz , σθ) experienced by the cylinder wall at mid-depth (1 m as shown) are
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2008 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2008
If the Young's modulus and Poisson's ratio of the container material are 100 GPa and 0.3, respectively, the axial strain in the cylinder wall at mid-depth is
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2009 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2009
If the principal stresses in a plane stress problem are \( \sigma_1 = 100 \) MPa, \( \sigma_2 = 40 \) MPa, the magnitude of the maximum shear stress (in MPa) will be
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2009 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2009
A solid shaft of diameter, \(d\) and length, \(L\) is fixed at both the ends. A torque, \(T_0\) is applied at a distance, \(L/4\) from the left end as shown in the figure given below. The maximum shear stress in the shaft is
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2009 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2009
A frame of two arms of equal length \(L\) is shown in the adjacent figure. The flexural rigidity of each arm of the frame is \(EI\). The vertical deflection at the point of application of load \(P\) is
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2010 · Mechanical Engineering · Applied Mechanics and Design · Mechanics of Materials
Mechanical Engineering (ME) 2010
The state of plane-stress at a point is given by \( \sigma_x = -200 \text{ MPa} \), \( \sigma_y = 100 \text{ MPa} \) and \( \tau_{xy} = 100 \text{ MPa} \). The maximum shear stress (in MPa) is
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