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22-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials: May 2015

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  1. Question 1 Displacements of a Pin-Jointed Truss Joint
  2. Question 2 Overhang-Beam Tip-Deflection Limit
  3. Question 3 Allowable Pressure in a Thick-Walled Cylinder
  4. Question 4 Strain State from a Prescribed Displacement Field
  5. Question 5 Welded Rod Assembly Between Rigid Walls
  6. Question 6 Plane-Stress Yield Check and Stress Rotation
  7. Question 7 Sizing a Square Bar Under Axial Load and Torque
  8. Question 8 Strain-Rosette Reduction on a Thin Plate

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Paper format. National Exams, May 2015 — 07-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials. Open-book, 3 hours. Eight problems of equal value; any five constitute a complete paper. All eight are solved here.

Reference texts. Ugural & Fenster, Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity (4th ed.); Boresi & Schmidt, Advanced Mechanics of Materials (6th ed.); Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials (10th ed.); Timoshenko & Goodier, Theory of Elasticity.