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22-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials: December 2017

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  1. Question 1 Displacement of a Three-Bar Truss by an Energy Method
  2. Question 2 Shear Flow, Shear Centre and Maximum Shear Stress in a Channel
  3. Question 3 Semicircular Curved Beam by Castigliano’s Theorem
  4. Question 4 Thick-Walled Cylinder — Tresca and Von Mises
  5. Question 5 Strain Compatibility and Displacement Field
  6. Question 6 Plane-Stress Plate — Inverse Problem
  7. Question 7 Combined Axial Load and Torque from a Strain Rosette
  8. Question 8 Allowable Force on an Overhanging Beam by Castigliano

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Paper format. National Exams, December 2017 — 16-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials. Open-book, 3 hours; any five of eight problems constitute a complete paper (all problems of equal value). All eight problems are solved as a study resource.

Reference texts. Boresi & Schmidt, Advanced Mechanics of Materials (6th); Ugural & Fenster, Advanced Mechanics of Materials and Applied Elasticity (5th); Timoshenko & Goodier, Theory of Elasticity (3rd); Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials (10th).