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04-BS-6: December 2018

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  1. Question 1 Rigid Bar on Two Inclined Support Bars (Statically Indeterminate)
  2. Question 2 Shear and Moment Diagrams for a Stepped-UDL Overhang Beam
  3. Question 3 Mohr's Circle for a Uniaxial-Stress Welded Plate
  4. Question 4 Propped Beam: Strut Buckling Sets the Maximum Load
  5. Question 5 Stepped Circular Shaft ABCDE Under Four Torques
  6. Question 6 Composite Concrete Cantilever with a Top Steel Plate
  7. Question 7 T-Beam with Mid-Span Point Load
  8. Question 8 W150x30 Overhang Beam: Tip Deflection by Integration

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EGBC National Exam — Basic Studies, 04-BS-6 Mechanics of Materials, 2018-Dec. Closed book; one hand-written aid sheet permitted. The exam instructs "any FIVE of the eight questions constitute a complete paper," but every question is solved below as a full study resource.

Reference texts: Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials, 10th ed. (axial deformation & statically indeterminate assemblies ch.4; shear/moment diagrams ch.6; stress transformation & Mohr's circle ch.9; buckling of columns ch.13; torsion of circular shafts ch.5; transformed-section composite beams ch.6; shear flow/VQ/Ib ch.7; beam deflection by integration ch.9). Standard steel W-shape tables (Appendix C of the exam) per CISC Handbook of Steel Construction.