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22-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials: December 2019

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  1. Question 1 Plate under biaxial stress — plane stress vs. plane strain
  2. Question 2 Bar under combined axial, torsional and transverse load
  3. Question 3 Thick-walled hydraulic cylinder — pressure at yield
  4. Question 4 Displacement field of a deformed parallelepiped
  5. Question 5 Stepped composite bar with an end gap
  6. Question 6 Minimum shaft diameter under axial load and torque
  7. Question 7 Deflection of a two-bar pin-connected structure

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Paper format. National Exams, December 2019 — 16-Mec-A7 Advanced Strength of Materials. Open-book, 3 hours. Seven problems of equal value; any five constitute a complete paper. All seven problems are solved as a study resource.

Reference texts. Boresi & Schmidt, Advanced Mechanics of Materials (6th ed.); Ugural & Fenster, Advanced Strength and Applied Elasticity (5th ed.); Hibbeler, Mechanics of Materials (10th ed.); Shigley, Mechanical Engineering Design (11th ed.).

Paper. The exam header/footer reads 16-Mec-A7 / December 2019.