Tutorial 5
Tutorial 5
│TUTORIAL 5│
1. A 10 m long tie rod stretches 4.7 mm. Calculate the strain in the tie rod.
(Ans. = 0.470 x 10-3 m / m)
2. A strip of bronze 5 by 20 mm carries an axial tensile load of 30 kN. In a length of 200 mm, there is
a deformation of 0.513 mm. Calculate the modulus of elasticity for the bronze.
(Ans. E = 117 GPa)
3. A 50 m steel surveyor’s chain has a length of 50.0020 m when an axial tensile load is applied. Find
the percent deformation in the chain.
(Ans. % deformation = 0.00400 %)
4. A sample of platinum was tested in tension. The longitudinal strain was found to be 0.800 x 10-3
m/m and the transverse strain was -0.300 x 10-3 m/m when the normal stress was 120 MPa.
Determine Poisson's ratio for platinum.
(Ans. = 0.375)
5. A tie bar is 2 m in length, has a circular cross-section of 19 mm diameter and carries a longitudinal
load of 35 kN. Calculate the stress in the bar and the change in length (E = 200 kN/mm2).
(Ans. 123.44 N/mm2, 1.23 mm)
6. A steel tie is 1.4 m long, has a cross-sectional area of 110 mm2 and carries a tensile load of 10.5 kN.
If the value of Young's Modulus of Elasticity (E) is 200 kN/mm2 and Poisson's ratio = 0.3,
calculate: (i) the direct tensile stress, (ii) the longitudinal strain, (iii) the lateral strain and (iv) the
change in length.
(Ans. (i) 95.45 N/mm2, (ii) 0.48 x 10-3, (iii) -0.14 x 10-3, (iv) 0.67 mm)
7. A steel tie bar 1.1 m long and 50 mm diameter is subject to a tensile stress of 120 N/mm2.
Determine:
(i) the extension
(ii) the change in lateral dimension and
(iii) the change in volume.
Assume that E = 200 kN/mm2 and Poisson's ratio =0.3.
(Ans. (i) 0.66 mm, (ii) -0.009 mm, (iii) 518 mm3)
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9. A verticall steel hangger ABC is 2.0m long aand carries a load of 135kN at its lower end as shown inn
the follow
wing figure. The diam meters of thee upper han nger AB and d the lowerr hanger BCC are 50mmm
2
and 35mm m respectively. Given thatt the Youung’s Modu ulus of the steel
s hangerr is 200kN/m
mm and the
Poisson’ss ratio is 0.33. Calculate the total exxtension of the beam, the
t change iin lateral diimensions of
o
the upperr hanger AB B and the low wer hanger BC.
(An
ns. 1.04 mm
m, -0.005 mm
m, -0.007 m
mm)
10
0. A rod iss now subjeected to two o points loadds of 80 kN
N and 30 kN N at points B and C resspectively as
a
shown inn the followwing figure. Given thhat the You ung’s Modu ulus is 200 GPa and th he Poisson’’s
ratio is 00.3. Calcullate the change of the ddiameter of each portio
on of the rodd.
880 kN 30 kN
N
A 100 mm
m dia 50 mm
m dia
B C
1.22 m 0.8 m
ns. 1.146
(An 10 mm
m, 2.1 10
0 mm )