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22-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials: December 2013

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  1. Question 1 Two-Segment Rod — Uniform Heating Between Rigid Supports
  2. Question 2 Plane-Stress Square Plate — Inverse Determination
  3. Question 3 Strain-Gauge Rosette on a Bar in Tension and Torsion
  4. Question 4 Beam Deflection at B by Castigliano’s Theorem
  5. Question 5 Thick-Walled Cylinder — von Mises and Tresca Pressure Limits
  6. Question 6 Buckling of a Slit (Open) Thin Tube — Flexural vs Torsional
  7. Question 7 Truss Member Forces by the Principle of Virtual Work

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Paper format: National Exams, December 2013 — 07-Mech-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials. Open-book, 3 hours; any five of the seven problems constitute a complete paper and all problems are of equal value. All seven problems are solved as a study resource.

Reference texts. R.C. Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials, 10th ed. (thermal & indeterminate axial members Ch. 4, plane stress/strain Ch. 9–10, energy methods Ch. 14); A.P. Boresi & R.J. Schmidt, Advanced Mechanics of Materials, 6th ed. (thick-walled cylinders Ch. 11, thin-walled open sections & torsional buckling Ch. 6&12); J.M. Gere & B.J. Goodno, Mechanics of Materials (strain rosettes, columns). Yield criteria follow the von Mises and Tresca formulations standard to these texts.