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SET 1 OF 4 (UNIT 3) PROBLEM 1:- A steel plate of width 120mm and of thickness 20mm is bent into a circular arc of radius 10m. Determine the maximum stress induced and the bending moment which will produce the maximum stress. Take . (Answer: )

PROBLEM 2:- Calculate the maximum stress induced in a cast iron pipe of external diameter 40mm, of internal diameter 20mm and of length 4 meters when the pipe is supported at its ends and carries a point load of 80N at its center. (Answer: )

PROBLEM 3:- A steel wire of 5 mm diameter is bent into a circular shape of 5m radius. Determine the maximum stress induced in the wire. Take (Answer: -( ) )

PROBLEM 4:- A copper wire of 2 mm diameter is required to be wounded around a drum. Find the minimum radius of the drum, if the stress in the wire is not to exceed 80MPa. Take modulus of elasticity for the copper as 100GPa. (Answer: -r = 1.25m) PROBLEM 5:- A metallic rod of 10mm diameter is bent into a circular form of radius 6m. If the maximum bending stress developed in the rod is 125MPa, find the value of youngs modulus for the rod material. (Answer: -E=150GPa) PROBLEM 6:- A cantilever of length 2m fails when a load of 2KN is applied at the free end. If the section of the beam is find the stress at the failure? (Answer: )
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PROBLEM 7:- A rectangular beam 200mm deep and 300mm wide is simply supported over a span of 8m. What uniformly distributed load per meter the beam may carry, if the bending stress in not to exceed 120N/mm2. (Answer: - =30KN/m) PROBLEM 8:- A rectangular beam 300mm deep is simply supported over a span of 4m. Determine the uniformly distributed load per meter which the beam may carry, if the bending stress should not exceed 120N/mm2. Take (Answer: - =320N/mm) PROBLEM 9:- A square beam in section and 2m long is supported at the ends. The beam fails when a load of 400N is applied at the center of the beam. What uniformly distributed load per meter length will break a cantilever of the same material 40mm wide, 60mm deep and 3m long? (Answer: -=0.8N/mm) PROBLEM 10:- A beam is simply supported and carries a uniformly distributed load of 40kN/m run over the same span. The section of the beam is rectangular having depth as 500mm. If the maximum stress in the material of the beam is 120N/mm2 and , find the span of the beam. (Answer: -L=8.20m) PROBLEM 11:- A timber beam of rectangular section is to support a load of 20kN uniformly distributed over a span of 3.6m when beam is simply supported. If the depth of section is to be twice the breadth, and the stress in the timber is not to exceed 7N/mm2, find the dimensions of the cross-section. How would you modify the cross-section of the beam, if it carries a concentrated load of 20kN placed at the centre with the same ratio of breadth to depth? (Answer: -b=124.5mm, d=249mm, b= 156.82mm, d=313.64mm)

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PROBLEM 12:- A timber beam of rectangular section of length 8m is simply supported. The beam carries a U.D.L. of 12kN/m run over the entire length and a point load of 10kN at 3m from the left support. If the depth is two times the width and the stress in the timber is not to exceed 8N/mm2, find the suitable dimension of the section. (Answer: - b=275.5mm, d=551mm) PROBLEM 13:- A rolled steel joist of I section carries a U.D.L. of 40kN/m run on a span of 10m, calculate the maximum stress produce due to bending.

(Answer: -304.92N/mm2) PROBLEM 14:- An I section is simply supported over a span of 12m. If the maximum permissible bending stress is 80N/mm2, what concentrated load can be carried at a distance of 4m from one support?

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(Answer: - W=8369.77KN) PROBLEM 15:- A cast iron bracket subjected to bending has the cross-section of Iform with unequal flanges. The dimensions of the section are shown. Find the position of the neutral axis and moment of inertia of the section about the neutral axis. If the maximum bending moment on the section is 40MN-mm, determine the maximum bending stress. What is the nature of the stress?

(Answer: -

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PROBLEM 16:- A cast iron beam is of I-section is simply supported on a span of 5m. If the tensile stress is not to exceed 20N/mm2, find the safe uniformly load which beam can carry. Find also the maximum compressive stress.

(Answer: = 6816.125N/m,

, I=96554667.21mm4)

PROBLEM 17:- A cast iron beam of T-section is simply supported on a span of 8m. The beam carries a U.D.L. of 1.5kN/m length on the entire span. Determine the maximum tensile and maximum compressive stresses.

(Answer: - (max)t = 258.81N/mm2, (max)c = 123.08N/mm2)


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PROBLEM 18:- A simply supported beam of length 3m carries a point load of 12kN at a distance of 2m from left support. The cross-section of the beam is shown. Determine the maximum tensile and compressive stress at X-X.

(Answer: - 18.56N/mm2)

, I=25585937.63mm4, (max)t = 16.6N/mm2, (max)c =

PROBLEM 19:- Three beams are having the same length, same allowable bending stress and the same bending moment. The cross-section of the beams are a square, rectangle with the depth twice the width and a circle. Find the ratios of weights of the circular and the rectangular beams with respect to square beams. (Answer: -0.7938, 1.1172) PROBLEM 20: - A water main of 500mm internal diameter and 20mm thick is running full. The water main is of cast iron and is supported at two points 10m apart. Find the maximum stress in the metal. The cast iron and water weigh 72000N/m3 and 10000N/m3 respectively. (Answer: - 13.18N/mm2) PROBLEM 21: - A flitched beam consists of a wooden joist 10cm wide and 20cm deep strengthened by two steel plates 10mm thick and 20cm deep. If the maximum stress in the wooden joist is 7N/mm2, find the corresponding maximum stress attained in steel. Find also the moment of resistance of the
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composite section. Take Youngs modulus for steel wood . and for

(Answer: - 23333.24Nm) PROBLEM 22: - A timber beam 100mm wide and 200mm deep is to be reinforced by bolting on two steel flitches each 150mm by 12.5mm in section. Calculate the moment of resistance in the following cases: (i) (ii) Flitches attached symmetrically at the top and bottom Flitches attached symmetrically at the sides.

Allowable stress in timber is 6N/mm2. What is the maximum stress in the steel in each case? Take Youngs modulus for steel and for wood . (Answer: - 56859.375Nm, 14437.5Nm)
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PROBLEM 23: - Two rectangular plates, one of steel and the other of brass each 40mm wide and 10mm deep are placed together to form a beam 40mm wide and 20mm deep, on two supports 1m apart, the brass plate being on the top of the steel plate. Determine the maximum load, which can be applied at the center of the beam, if the plates are (i) (ii) Separate and can bend independent. Firmly secured throughout their length.

Maximum allowable stress in steel = 112.5N/mm2 and in brass = 75N/mm2. Take Youngs modulus for steel and for wood . (Answer: - 420N, 921.48N)

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