STUDENT NAME: ID:

Sana’a University Faculty of Engineering

Mechanical Engineering Department
ME101-Mechanics of Materials
Midterm Exam – 2022/2023 2nd Year/2nd Term Examination
Date: 08/03/2023 Exam Duration Time: 2-hour
Part Sectio Marks
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A /10
ONE
B /10
C /10
Examiner D /20 Associate Professor
A
Dr. Khalil Al-Hatab /10
TWO

B /10
C /10
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Total mark in Figures 100 60
Total mark in letters
INSTRUCTIONS: Signature:
 This is a closed book and closed notes.
 Only non-programmable calculators are allowed.
 Answer all questions.
 All work is to be done on the pages of this booklet.
 When answering the questions include all the steps of your work on these pages and then fill the
answer in the respective boxes where provided. For additional space, you may use the back of
the preceding page.
 Do not unstapled this exam booklet.

1) Consider an elemental block subject to 5

uniaxial tension (see Fig. P1). Derive
approximate expressions for the
change of volume per unit volume due
to this loading.
For the special case of a solid
subjected to uniform hydrostatic
pressure p, σ x =σ y =σ z =– p . Derive
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approximate expressions for the bulk modulus or modulus of volume expansion of the material.

2) Consider a steel tube surrounding a solid aluminum cylinder, the

assembly being compressed between rigid cover plates by centrally
applied forces as shown in Fig. P2. The aluminum cylinder is 8 cm in
diameter and the outside diameter of the steel tube is 9.2 cm. If P = 200
kN, find the stress in the steel and also in the aluminum. For steel, E =
200 GPa and for aluminum E = 80 GPa.

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3) Consider a bar of conical section under the action

of an axial force P as shown in Fig. P3.
Determine the extension of the whole bar.

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4) A 0.4-m by 0.4-m square ABCD is drawn on a thin

panel or flat plate of an aircraft prior to loading.
Subsequent to loading, the square has the dimentions
shown by dashed lines in Fig. P4. Find: The average
values of strain components at A?

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