# Numericals » 10-Numerical Problems

## “Material Strength” Numerical Problems

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### 01. PROBLEM – P100101

Find the centre of gravity of Z section as shown in figure below.

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### 02. PROBLEM – P100102

A square hole is punched out of a circular lamina, the diagonal of the square being the radius of the circle as shown in figure.

Find the centre of gravity of remainder section if ( r ) is the radius of circle.

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### 03. PROBLEM – P100103

A frustum of a solid right circular cone has an axial hole of ( 50 \ cm ) diameter as shown in figure.

Determine the centre of gravity of the body.

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### 04. PROBLEM – P100104

Two halves of a round homogeneous cylinder are held together by a thread wrapped round the cylinder with two weights, each equal to ( P ) , attached to its ends as shown in figure. The complete cylinder weighs ( W \ kgf ) .  The plane of contact of both of its halves is vertical.

Determine the minimum value of ( P ) for which both halves of the cylinder will be in equilibrium on a horizontal plane.

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### 05. PROBLEM – P100105

Three masses of ( 3 ), \ ( 4 ) \ \& \ ( 5 ) \ kg are located at the corners of an equilateral triangle of side ( 1 \ m ) as shown in figure. Locate the centre of mass of the system.

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1. Centre of mass.

### 06. PROBLEM – P100106

A small sphere of radius ( R ) is held against the inner surface of a larger sphere of radius ( 6 R ) . The masses of larger sphere and smaller sphere are ( 4 M ) and ( M ) respectively. This arrangement is placed on a horizontal table. There is no friction between any surfaces of contact. The small sphere is now released. Find the co-ordinates of the centre of the larger sphere when the smaller sphere reaches the other extreme position?

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### 07. PROBLEM – P100107

Find moment of inertia about the centroidal XX and YY axis of the angle section as shown in figure.

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### 08. PROBLEM – P100108

A rectangular hole is made in a triangular section as shown in figure.

Determine moment of inertia of the section about XX axis passing through its centre of gravity and through the base BC .

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### 09. PROBLEM – P100109

Figure shows a built up section made of ( 12 \times 4 \ inch ) channels and ( 12 \ inch \times 3/4 \ inch ) plates. Find ( I_{xx} ) and I_{yy} through the centroidal axes, if I_{yy} for channel is ( 12.12 \ inch^4 ) .

Area of channel section is ( 9.21 inch^2 ) . Position of centre of gravity from back of channel is ( 1.06 \ inch ) and  I_{xx} for channel is ( 66.7 \ inch^4 ) .

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### 10. PROBLEM – P100110

From a right circular cylinder a right cone of the same radius and altitude is cut out as shown in figure. If the radius is ( a )  and the altitude is ( h ) , find the moment of inertia of remaining solid about the axis of cylinder.

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### 11. PROBLEM – P100111

Four particles of masses of ( 4 \ kg ), \ ( 2 \ kg ), \ ( 3 \ kg ) \ \& \ ( 5 \ kg )  are located at the corners A, \ B, \ C \ \& \ D respectively of a square ABCD as shown in figure.

Calculate the moment of inertia of the system about (1) an axis passing through the point of intersection of the diagonals and perpendicular to the plane of the square (2) the side AB and (3) the diagonal BD .

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### 12. PROBLEM – P100112

A cantilever beam AB of length ( l ) is carrying a point load ( W ) at its free end B . Find and draw the shear force and bending moment diagram for the beam at important points.

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### 13. PROBLEM – P100113

A cantilever beam AB of length ( l ) is carrying a uniformly distributed load of ( w ) per unit length at its full length from A to B .

Find and draw the values of shear force and bending moment at important points and draw the diagram for the beam.

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### 14. PROBLEM – P100114

An overhang beam AE of total length ( 15 \ m ) is carrying a uniformly distributed load of ( 1000 \ kg / m ) for ( 5 \ m ) from end A and ( 1600 \ kg / m ) for ( 2.5 \ m ) length from end E . The beam is carrying two point loads of ( 8000 \ kg ) and ( 4000 \ kg ) at points C \ \& \ D as shown in figure.

Draw the shear force and bending moment diagram for the beam. Also find the maximum bending moment acting any point of the beam.

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### 15. PROBLEM – P100115

An simply supported beam AB of total length ( 5 \ m ) is carrying a uniformly distributed load of ( 1000 \ N / m ) for ( 2 \ m ) from end A and a clockwise couple of ( 1500 \ N \ m ) at ( 2.5 \ m ) from end B .

Draw the shear force and bending moment diagram for the beam. Also find the maximum bending moment acting any point of the beam.

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### 16. PROBLEM – P100116

An ( I ) section beam is subjected to a bending moment of ( 500 \ kg \ m ) at its neutral axis. Section is shown in figure below.

Find the maximum stress induced in beam.

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### 17. PROBLEM – P100117

A timber beam of ( 100 \ mm ) wide and ( 200 \ mm ) depth is strengthen by a steel plate of ( 100 \ mm ) wide and ( 10 \ mm ) thick screwed at bottom surface of timber beam.

Find the moment of resistance of section if allowable stresses  in timber and steel are ( 10 \ N / mm^2 ) and ( 150 \ N / mm^2 ) respectively. Take ( E_s = 20 E_t )

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### 18. PROBLEM – P100118

A simply supported beam ( AB ) of span ( 10 \ m ) is carrying a point load of ( 10 \ kN ) at a distance of ( 6 \ m ) from left end support A . Find out maximum deflection and slope of beam if ( E = 200 \ GN / m^2 ) and ( I = 1000 \times 10^6 \ mm^4 )

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### 19. PROBLEM – P100119

A cantilever ( 100 \ mm ) wide and ( 200 \ mm ) deep projects ( 2 \ m ) from a wall. The cantilever carries a uniformly distributed load ( 2 \ kN / m ) over a length of ( 1 \ m ) from free end and a point load of ( 1 \ kN ) at free end as shown in figure.

Find the slope and deflection at free end.

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### 20. PROBLEM – P100120

A simply supported beam AB of span ( 4 \ m ) is loaded with uniformly distributed load of ( 2 \ kN / m ) as shown in figure.

Determine deflection at C and slope at B by moment area method. Take ( EI = 12 \times 10^5 )

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### 21. PROBLEM – P100121

A beam ABCD is simply supported beam supported at its ends A and D over a span of ( 30 \ m ) . It is made up of 3 portions AB, \ BC \ \& \ CD each of ( 10 \ m ) in length. The moment of inertia of section over each of these individual portions is uniform and moment of inertia ( I ) values for them are ( I ), \ ( 3I ) \ \& \ ( 2I ) respectively, where ( I = 2 \times 10^6 cm^4 ) . Beam carries a point load of ( 15 ) tonnes at B and another load of ( 30 ) tonnes at C as shown in figure.

Neglecting self weight of beam, calculate the deflection at B and slope at C . Take the values of ( E ) , the modulus of material of beam ( E = 2 \times 10^6 kg/cm^2 )  uniform throughout the length.

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