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GATE Mechanical Behaviour of Materials: Plasticity and yield criteria – Previous Year Questions

9 GATE previous year questions on Plasticity and yield criteria (Mechanical Behaviour of Materials, Metallurgical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

  1. GATE 2021 MT Q17 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – For the uniaxial tensile stress–strain behaviour of polycrystalline aluminium, which statement is FALSE?
  2. GATE 2021 MT Q28 (1 mark, Numerical answer) – A body has stress tensor bmatrix50&0&0\\0&200&0\\0&0&100bmatrix MPa. For yielding under Tresca’s criterion, its uniaxial tensile yield stress must be…
  3. GATE 2021 MT Q42 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Single-crystal aluminium is in uniaxial tension along [112]. At applied stress 100 MPa and critical resolved shear stress 25 MPa, which slip system…
  4. GATE 2022 MT Q26 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A strain-hardening material develops necking instability in tension when . Here is true stress and true strain.
  5. GATE 2022 MT Q46 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – In high-temperature tensile tests at the same strain, an alloy has flow stress 50 MPa at strain rate 0.1 s-1 and 70 MPa at 10 s-1. Its strain-rate…
  6. GATE 2023 MT Q63 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – An alloy obeys =11000.3, where , are true stress and strain. It is cold-drawn to an unknown strain and then tensile-tested. At maximum tensile load,…
  7. GATE 2025 MT Q40 (2 marks, Multiple choice) – Match the phenomena in Column I with the typical observations in Column II. Column I: P. Dynamic strain aging Q. Recrystallization R. Bauschinger…
  8. GATE 2025 MT Q62 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A cylindrical specimen is plastically deformed in tension to a uniform elongation of 10%. The final gage cross-sectional area is 20 mm2. Its initial…
  9. GATE 2026 MT Q50 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A cylindrical copper single crystal of diameter 10 mm is deformed under a uniaxial tensile load of 2200 N. The angle between the slip-plane normal and…