11.

Within elastic limit, the shear stress is proportional

to shear strain. What is the constant of
propotionality of this statement called?
1. What is the ratio of the transverse strain to the A. Modulus of rigidity
corresponding axial strain in a body subjected to uniaxial
stress? B. Modulus of elasticity
A. Poisson ’s ratio C. You g’s odulus
B. Euler’s ratio D. Bulk modulus
C. Refractive index
D. Dielectric index 12. What is the unit of the modulus of elasticity?
A. N-m
2. What are the four basic forms of deformation of solid B. Unitless
bodies? C. Pa
A. Tension, compression, bending and twisting D. N-m/s
B. Tension, compression, elongation and bending
C. Tension, compression, plastic and elastic 13. Within elastic limit, the volumetric strain is proportional
D. Tension, compression, elongation and torsion to the hydrostatic stress. What is the constant that
relates these two quantities called?
A. Modulus of rigidity
3. What is a structural member supported horizontally and
B. Modulus of elasticity
carries transverse loading?
A. Beam C. You g’s odulus
B. Column D. Bulk modulus
C. Arch
D. Shaft 14. What is another term for modulus of rigidity?
A. Shear modulus
B. You g’s odulus
4. What refers to a slender member which prevents
parts of a structure moving towards each other C. Bulk modulus
under compressive force? D. Modulus of elasticity
A. Tie
B. Column 15. How many times greater is the plastic range of strain as
C. Panel compared to the elastic range of strain?
D. Strut A. 100
B. 200
C. 300
5. What refers to a slender member which prevents
parts of a structure moving towards each other D. 400
under compressive force?
A. Tie 16. What does it ea s whe the aterial is said to be ieldi g ?
B. Column A. The material has pass through plastic range and enter
C. Strut the elastic range
D. Arch B. The material has pass through elastic range and
enter the plastic range
6. What refers to the point in which the bending moment C. The material is in the elastic range only
changes sign through a zero value? D. The material is in the plastic range only
A. Critical point
B. Point of inflection 17. What refers to the parallel axis theorem for second
C. Point of contraflexure moment of area?
D. Point of zero stress A. Mohr’s theore
B. Steiner’s theorem
7. What is the unit of strain? C. Ma well’s theorem
A. Pascal D. You g’s theore
B. Unitless
C. N-m 18. The elastic deformation of a material is:
D. N-m/s A. directly proportional to cross-sectional area of the
material
B. inversely proportional to the modulus of elasticity
8. Volumetric stain is the:
of material
A. change in volume per unit time
C. inversely proportional to the force acting on the material
B. square root of difference of original volume and change
D. inversely proportional to the initial length of the material
in volume
C. original volume minus change in volume
D. ratio of change in volume to original volume 19. The strain energy of a member is:
A. inversely proportional to the square of the force acting
on the member
9. What refers to the stress in the material at the elastic
B. directly proportional to the modulus of elasticity
limit?
C. inversely proportional to the cross-sectional area of
A. Working stress
the member
B. Yield stress
D. inversely proportional to the initial length of the member
C. Ultimate stress
D. Maximum stress

10. Which of the following materials has the least modulus of

elasticity?
A. Steel
B. Glass
C. Copper
D. Aluminum
20. Stiffness is: 30. A 30-m long aluminum bar is subjected to a tensile stress
A. ratio of force to deformation of 175 MPa. Determine the elongation if E = 69116 MPa.
B. ratio of force to modulus of elasticity A. 78 mm
C. ratio of product of cross-sectional area and initial length B. 76 mm
to deformation C. 74 mm
D. ratio of initial length to cross-sectional area D. 72 mm

21. Which of the following substances has the least average 31. Determine the load capacity in kN on a 25 mm
coefficient of linear thermal expansion? diameter x 1200 mm long steel shaft if its
A. Copper maximum elongation shall not exceed 1 mm.
Assume E = 200,000 MPa.
B. Concrete
A. 88.2 kN
C. Steel
B. 78.3 kN
D. Tin
C. 83.2 kN
D. 81.8 kN
22. Steel has a modulus of elasticity of _____ MPa.
A. 200
B. 2,000 32. An iron steam pipe is 200 ft long at 0oC. What will be its
increase in length when heated to 100 C? Coefficient of
C. 20,000 linear expansion is 30 x 10^-6 per oC.
D. 200,000 A. 0.18 ft
B. 0.12 ft
23. What is the maximum moment of a beam supported at C. 0.20 ft
both ends and carries a uniform load of w throughout its D. 0.28 ft
entire length?
A. wL / 2
B. wL / 8 33. A steel railroad rails 10 m long are laid with clearance
C. wL2 / 8 of 3 mm at a temperature of 15oC. At what
D. wL2 / 4 temperature will the rails just touch? If there were no
initial clearance Assume: alpha = 11.7 micro m/m
deg.C and E = 200 GPa.
24. ____ is the stress beyond which the material will not
return to its original shape when unloaded but will retain A. 46.90 deg
a permanent deformation. B. 56.06 deg
A. Elastic limit C. 50.36 deg
B. Proportional limit D. 40.64 deg
C. Yield limit
D. Yield strength 34. A cylinder of diameter 1.0 cm at 30oC is to be slide into a
hole on a steel plate. The hole has a diameter of 0.99970
25. All are methods of determining the bar force of a truss cm at 30oC. To what temperature the plate must be
member except one. Which one? heated? Coefficient of linear expansion for steel is 1.2 x
A. Method of joints 10^-5 per oC.
B. Method of section A. 62oC
C. Method of virtual work B. 55oC
D. Maxwell diagram C. 48oC
D. 65oC
26. Determine the force required to punch a ½ inch hole on a
3/8 thick plate if the ultimate shearing strength of the plate 35. A certain steel tape is known to be 100,000 ft long at a
is 50,000 psi. temperature of 70oF. When the tape is at a
A. 23,562 lbs temperature of 10oF, what tape reading corresponds to
B. 19,450 lbs a distance of 90,000 ft? Assume a coefficient of thermal
expansion equal 65 x 10^-7 per oF.
C. 20,550 lbs
A. 90,035 ft
D. 15,422 lbs
B. 89,965 ft
C. 90,225 ft
27. A simply supported beam, 10 m long carries a uniform D. 89,775 ft
distributed load of 20 kN/m. What is the value of the
maximum moment of the beam due to the load?
A. 10,000 kN-m 36. A solid shaft 2.0 m long is transmitting 27 kN-m
B. 5,000 kN-m torque. If the shear modulus of the shaft material is
C. 2,000 kN-m 85 GPa and the allowable shearing stress is 70
D. 250 kN-m MPa, determine the angle of twist between the two
ends of the shaft.
A. 1.52o
28. A cylindrical water tank is 8 m in diameter and 12 m B. 1.02o
high. If the tank is to be completely filled, determine the C. 1.44o
minimum thickness of the tank plating if the stress is
limited to 40 MPa. D. 1.32o
A. 11.77 mm
B. 13.18 mm 37. Determine the maximum shearing stress in a helical steel
C. 10.25 mm spring composed of 20 turns of 20 mm diameter wire on
mean radius of 80 mm when the spring is supporting a
D. 12.60 mm load of 20 kN?
29. The stress in a 90-cm diameter pipe having a wall A. 529 Gpa
thickness of 9.5 cm and under a static head of 70 m of B. 370 Pa
water is
C. 25 kPa
A. 325 kPa
D. 121 MPa
B. 32.5 kPa
C. 32.5 MPa
D. 3.25 MPa
 38. A 14-ft simple beam uniformly loaded with 200 46. During the stress strain test, the unit deformation at a stress of
pounds per foot over its entire length. If the beam is 35 MN/m2 it was 667 x 10^-6 mm. If the proportional limit was
3.625 in wide and 7.625 in deep, what is the MN/m2, what is the modulus of elasticity?
maximum bending stress/
A. 7974 lbf/in2 A. 10 x 10^8 N/cm2
B. 8205 lbf/in2 B. 5.8 x 10^6 N/in2
C. 6332 lbf/in2 C. 2.1 x 10^5 N/mm2
D. 1674 lbf/in2 D. 35 x 10^6 N/mm2
47. A 2.5 in. diameter shaft is 2 ft. long. Its maximum shear
39. A 19-foot beam 10 inches wide and 20 inches high stress is 10,000 psi. What is the angular deflection in
supports 1500 lb/ft on two supports 14 feet apart. The degrees?
right end of the beam extends 2 feet past the support.
What is the shearing stress midway between supports? A. 0.96o
A. 1.0 psi B. 0.45o
B. 10 psi C. 0.78o
C. 67 psi D. 0.56o
D. 2.0 psi 48. An elevator weighs 1000 pounds and is supported by a
5/16 inch diameter cable, 1500 feet long. When the elevator
40. A long beam of length L has a formula which is 48Ely = w carries a 1500 lb, the cable elongates 6 inches more. What is
(2x^4 – 5Lx^3 + 3(L^2 )(x^2)); where does the maximum the modulus of elasticity of the cable?
deflection occur?
A. 4.35 x 10^7 psi
A. 0.675L B. 5.87 x 10^7 psi
B. 0.578L C. 3.42 x 10^7 psi
C. 0.987L D. 2.34 x 10^7 psi
D. 0.876L 49. A hallow shaft has an inner diameter of 0.035 m and an
41. A steel support must connect to 30,000 pound tensile loads outer diameter of 0.06 m. Compute the torque if the shear
separated by 200 inches. The maximum allowable stress is stress is not exceed 120 MPa.
10,000 psi and the maximum elongation is 0.020 inch. What is the
required area? E(steel) = 3 x 10^7 psi A. 4,500 N-m
B. 4,300 N-m
A. 30.5 mm2 C. 5,500 N-m
B. 47.1 in2 D. 3,450 N-m
C. 55 mm2 50. A spherical tank with 10 inches inside diameter
D. 10 in2 contains oxygen gas at 2,500 psi. Calculate the required
42. High strength steel band saw, 20 mm wide and 0.8 mm wall thickness in (mm) under stress of 28,000 psi.
thick runs over the pulley 600 mm in diameter of pulleys can be
used without exceeding the flexural stress of 400 MPa? Note: E A. 6.12 mm
= 200 GPa. B. 5.66 mm
C. 4.88 mm
A. 250 cm D. 7.21 mm
B. 325 mm
C. 400 mm
D. 150 in.
43. What weight in pounds can be lifted by a screw that has an
efficiency of 80% if it is operated by a 50 lb force at the end of a
30 inched lever and the pitch of the screw is ½ inch?

A. 15,080
B. 15,500
C. 10,000
D. 12,000
44. What is the stress in an 8-inch round x 16-inch high
concrete cylinder (E = 2.5 x 10^6 psi) when the unit deformation
is 0.0012 inch/inch?

A. 500 psi
B. 8100 psi
C. 210 psi
D. 3000 psi
45. What uniform load will cause simple beam which is 10 ft long
to deflect 0.3 in. ft it supported (in addition to the supports) by a
spring at the beam mid-point. The spring constant of 30,000 lbf/in.
Assume the beam is steel, 10 in. deep, rectangular, and with a
centroidal moment of inertia of 100 in4 .

A. 3550 lbf/ft
B. 6445 lbf/ft
C. 2250 lbf/ft
D. 5440 lbf/ft