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The bending moment at a section tends to bend or deflect the beam and the internal stresses resist its bending. The resistance offered by the internal stresses, to the bending, is called
A Compressive stress
B Shear stress
C Bending stress
D Elastic modulus
The change in length due to a tensile or compressive force acting on a body is given by (where P = Tensile or compressive force acting on the body, $$l$$ = Original length of the body, A = Cross-sectional area of the body and E = Young's modulus for the material of the body)
A $$\frac{{{\text{P}}l{\text{A}}}}{{\text{E}}}$$
B $$\frac{{{\text{P}}l}}{{{\text{AE}}}}$$
C $$\frac{{\text{E}}}{{{\text{P}}l{\text{A}}}}$$
D $$\frac{{{\text{AE}}}}{{{\text{P}}l}}$$
In a simple bending theory, one of the assumptions is that the plane sections before bending remain plane after bending. This assumption means that
A Stress is uniform throughout the beam
B Strain is uniform throughout the beam
C Stress is proportional to the distance from the neutral axis
D Strain is proportional to the distance from the neutral axis
The pull required to tear off the plate per pitch length is (where p = Pitch of rivets, t = Thickness of plates and $${\sigma _{\text{t}}},\,\tau $$  and $${\sigma _{\text{c}}}$$ = Permissible tensile, shearing and crushing stresses respectively)
A $$\left( {{\text{p}} - 2{\text{d}}} \right){\text{t}} \times {\sigma _{\text{c}}}$$
B $$\left( {{\text{p}} - {\text{d}}} \right){\text{t}} \times \tau $$
C $$\left( {{\text{p}} - {\text{d}}} \right){\text{t}} \times {\sigma _{\text{t}}}$$
D $$\left( {2{\text{p}} - {\text{d}}} \right){\text{t}} \times {\sigma _{\text{t}}}$$
In riveted boiler joints, all stresses, shearing, bearing and tensile are based on the
A Size of rivet
B Size of the drilled or reamed hole
C Average of size of rivet and hole
D Smaller of the two
When an open coiled helical compression spring is subjected to an axial compressive load, the maximum shear stress induced in the wire is (where D = Mean diameter of the spring coil, d = Diameter of the spring wire, K = Wahl's stress factor and W = Axial compressive load on the spring)
A $$\frac{{{\text{WD}}}}{{\pi {{\text{d}}^3}}} \times {\text{K}}$$
B $$\frac{{2{\text{WD}}}}{{\pi {{\text{d}}^3}}} \times {\text{K}}$$
C $$\frac{{4{\text{WD}}}}{{\pi {{\text{d}}^3}}} \times {\text{K}}$$
D $$\frac{{8{\text{WD}}}}{{\pi {{\text{d}}^3}}} \times {\text{K}}$$
The process used to improve fatigue resistance of the metal by setting up compressive stresses in its surface, is known as
A Hot piercing
B Extrusion
C Cold peening
D Cold heading
__________ is the process used for setting up compressive stresses in the surface of a metal to improve its fatigue strength.
A Lancing
B Shot peening
C Slugging
D Spinning
For testing compressive and tensile strength of cement, the cement mortar is made by mixing cement and standard sand in the proportions of
A 1 : 2
B 1 : 3
C 1 : 4
D 1 : 6
The compressive strength of cast iron is __________ that of its tensile strength.
A Equal to
B Less than
C More than
D None of these

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