AE 35 – SOLID MECHANICS

AERONAUTICAL ENGINEERING
Time: Three Hours Maximum: 100 marks
ANSWER ALL QUESTIONS
PART─A (10×2=20 marks)

1. State Hooke’s Law?

2. What do you understand by thermal stress? State the situation it
occurs.

3. What are the types of supports used in beams?

4. Define bending moment and shearing force at a section of a beam?

5. What are the advantages of using McCauley’s method on deflection

of beams?

6. What is the significance of Castigliano’s theorm?

7. What are the advantages of a hollow shaft over a solid shaft?

8. What are the stresses occur in the wire of an open and closely coiled
helical spring?

9. Which stress decides the thickness of the thin shell?

10. What do you understand by combined loading?

PART─B (5×16=80 marks)

11. (a) A steel bar is 900mm long. Its two ends are 40mm and (16)
30mm in diameter and the length of each rod is 200mm.
The middle portion of the bar is 15mm in diameter and
500mm long. If the bar is subjected to an axial tensile
load of 15kN, determine
(i) Stress in each section.
(ii) Total extension. Take E = 200×103N/mm2.
Or

(b) A bar of cross section 8×8mm is subjected to an axial (16)

pull of 8000N. If the lateral dimension of the bar is
found to be 7.996×7.996. If the Modulus of rigidity of
the material is 9.6×104N/mm2, determine the Poisson’s
ratio and Modulus of elasticity.

12. (a) A simply supported beam of 7m span has a load of (16)

12kN/m uniformly distributed over 3m, 1.5m away from
the centre toward the right. In addition it has a point load
of 8kN at 2.5m from the left hand support. Draw the
shear force and bending moment diagrams.

Or

(b) A simply supported beam of span 6m is subjected to (16)

UDL of 15kN/m over its entire length. The cross section
of the beam is 20cm wide and 30cm deep. Sketch the
variation of bending stress and shear stress in the beam
cross section.

13. (a) A beam ‘AB’ of length ‘l’ simply supported at the ends (16)
carries a point load ‘W’ at a distance ‘a’ from the left
end. Find,
(i) The deflection under the load.
(ii) The maximum deflection.

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 Or

(b) A cantilever beam of 3m long is loaded with a uniformly (16)

distributed load of 15kN/m over a length of 2m from the
fixed end. Determine the slope and deflection at the free
end of the cantilever beam. Take E = 2.1×108kN/m2, and
I = 0.000095m4.

14. (a) A hollow shaft, having an inside diameter 60% of its (16)
outer diameter is to replace a solid shaft transmitting the
same power at the same speed. Calculate the percentage
saving in material, if the material to be used is also the
same.

Or

(b) Determine the amount of compression and the maximum (16)

shear stress produced when a load of 2100N is dropped
axially on a closely coiled helical spring from a height of
240mm. The spring has 22 coils each of mean diameter
180mm and wire diameter is 25mm. Take C =
84000N/mm2.

15. (a) A cylindrical shell 90cm long and 20cm internal (16)
diameter having thickness of metal as 8mm is filled with
fluid at atmospheric pressure. If an additional 20cm 3 of
fluid is pumped in to the cylinder, find:

(i) The pressure exerted by the fluid on the cylinder

and

(ii) The hoop stress induced.

Or

(b) Draw the Mohr’s stress circle for direct stresses of (16)
65MN/m2 (tensile) and 35MN/m2 (Compressive) and
estimate the magnitude and direction of the resultant
stresses on planes making angles of 20 and 65 degrees
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with the plane of the first principal stress. Find also the
normal and tangential stresses on these planes.