Department of Mechanical Engineering M.E.

(CAD)
I Semester
15CD002 Advanced Mechanics of Materials Second Series Test
Time: 1.30hrs.

Date: 11.10.2015

Max. Marks: 50 Marks

PART-A (9 x 2 = 18 marks)
Answer ALL Questions
1. What is stress tensor?
2. Define Hooks Law.
3. What you meant by plane stress condition?
4. When we have do select the plane strain condition?
5. Define Strain.
6. Draw the stress-strain curve for mild steel specimen and specify the important
point on the curve.
7. What do you meant by boundary conditions?
8. What is Airys stress function?
9. Write the generalized Hooks law for orthotropic material.
PART-B (2 x 16 = 32 marks)
Answer ALL Questions
10.

(i) Drive the relation of differential equations of equilibrium for a three dimensional
body.
ii.
The stress field within an elastic structural member is expressed as
follows:

Determine the body force distribution required for equilibrium.

Or
11.

12.

13.

The stress components at a point in a plate are xx = -100 MPa, yy= zz=20 MPa,
xy= yz=0 and xz= -80 MPa.
a.
Determine the principal stresses
b.
Determine the octahedral shear stress.
c.
Determine the maximum shear stress and compare
it the octahedral shear stress.
d.
Determine the direction cosines of the normal to
one of the planes on which the maximum shear stress acts.
Show the all the basic relations in the polar coordinate. (i) Equation of equilibrium
(ii) Strain-displacement relations (iii) Hooks Law (iv) Compatibility equations.
Or
(i) Explain the Saint-Venants principle with the suitable examples.
(ii) Determine whether the following strain fields are possible in a continuous
material: