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22-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials: May 2018

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  1. Question 1 Displacement of a Three-Bar Truss
  2. Question 2 Thick-Walled Cylinder — Tresca and Von Mises
  3. Question 3 Strain Compatibility and Recovery of Displacements
  4. Question 4 Biaxial Plate — Inverse Problem and Principal Stresses
  5. Question 5 Square Bar under Axial Load and Torque — Tresca vs Von Mises
  6. Question 6 Strain Rosette — Transformation, Principal Strains and Yield
  7. Question 7 Overhang Beam — Sizing a Load by Castigliano’s Theorem
  8. Question 8 Shear Flow and Shear Centre of an Unequal-Flange Z-Section

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Paper format. National Exams, May 2018 — 16-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials. Open-book, 3 hours, eight problems of equal value; a complete paper is any five. All eight problems are solved here 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).