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A rigid block of mass m on a horizontal surface is connected to three springs each having spring constant k as shown in the figure. Which one of the following is the CORRECT natura...
A cart of weight (W) 5 kN, stands on an inclined smooth surface at an angle (θ) of 45° as shown in the figure. The cart is maintained in equilibrium by a horizontal force F acting...
One column with square cross section of side r and another column with rectangular cross section of breadth p and width q (< p) are made from the same material. Both the columns ha...
Two prismatic rods of identical lengths are designed for the same strain energy density when subjected to the same axial load. One of the rods is made of steel (Young's modulus = 2...
A spring of stiffness k is connected to the center of a homogeneous right circular cylinder of radius r placed on a horizontal surface as shown in the figure. The cylinder is assum...
A 2D stress state of pure shear is shown in the figure. Which one of the following options is equivalent to the given stress state? Figures are not to scale.
The point Q of a thin rigid equilateral triangular plate PQR is constrained to move in a horizontal channel. Point P of the same plate is constrained to move in the vertical channe...
A thin walled cylindrical container of diameter 2 m and wall thickness of 2.5 cm is made of steel whose Young's modulus is 200 GPa and yield stress is 450 MPa. Using von Mises crit...
A solid axial bar made of steel with Young's modulus, 200 GPa and Poisson's ratio, 0.3, is subjected to uniaxial stress of 50 MPa. The absolute value of the maximum shear strain on...
EFGH (solid lines) is the initial configuration and E'F'G'H' (dashed lines) is the deformed configuration of an object as shown in the figure. E' coincides with E and F' coincides...
A simply supported beam of length l = 2 m is subjected to a concentrated moment M = 150 kNm at a distance l/2 from the left end as shown in the figure. The elastic-strain energy U...