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04-BS-6: May 2015

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  1. Question 1 Mohr's Circle for a Plane-Stress Element
  2. Question 2 Cantilever Deflection by the Method of Integration
  3. Question 3 Maximum Loads Against Buckling of a Two-Force Strut
  4. Question 4 Stepped Shaft in Torsion
  5. Question 5 Rigid Beam on a Pin and Two Cables
  6. Question 6 Combined Axial and Bending Stress in an I-Beam
  7. Question 7 Shear and Moment Functions for a Cantilever
  8. Question 8 Composite Concrete–Steel Cantilever Beam

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National Exams May 2015 – 04-BS-6: Mechanics of Materials
3 hours duration, closed book (one hand-written aid sheet permitted). Any five of the eight questions constitute a complete paper; all eight are solved below as a complete study resource.

Reference texts: R.C. Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials, 10th ed. (Ch. 5 torsion, Ch. 6 shear/moment diagrams & composite beams, Ch. 7 transverse shear, Ch. 8 combined loadings, Ch. 9 stress transformation, Ch. 12 deflection by integration, Ch. 13 buckling); F. Beer & E.R. Johnston, Mechanics of Materials; W. Gere & B. Goodno, Mechanics of Materials (alternates). A wide-flange (W-shape) properties table printed on the exam's last page supplies the section used in Question 2.