Strength of Materials Sheet 5
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1) Question.
If a cantilever beam carries a uniformly distributed load over its entire length, then shapes of shear-force diagram and bending-moment diagram respectively are
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2) Question.
A simply supported beam of length 1 carries a load varying uniformly from zero at left end to maximum at right end. The maximum bending moment occurs at a distance of
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3) Question.
A prismatic beam of length I and fided at both ends carries a uniformly distributed load. The distance of points of contraflexure from either end is
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4) Question.
A beam of overall length I with equal overhangs on both sides c arries a uniformly distributed load over the entire length. To have numericlly equal bending miments at centre of the beam and at supports, the distance between the supports should be
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5) Question.
The relationship between the radius of curvature R, bending moment M and fiexural rigidity EI is given by
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6) Question.
A prismatic beam fixed at both ends carries a uniformly distributed load. The ratio of bending moment at the supports to the bending moment at mid-span is
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7) Question.
A cantilever beam AB of lenth / carries a concentrated load W at its midspan C. If the free end B is supported on a rigid prop, then there is a point of contraflexure
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8) Question.
The maximum bending moment due to a movie load on a fixed ended beam occurs
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9) Question.
The variation of the bending moment in the protion of a beam carrying linearly varying load is
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10) Question.
The difference in ordinate of the shear curve between any two ections is euql to the area under
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