GATE Biomechanics: Soft Tissue Mechanics – Previous Year Questions
15 GATE previous year questions on Soft Tissue Mechanics (Biomechanics, Biomedical Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2021 BM Q25 – Treat blood as red cells suspended in a Newtonian fluid. What is the intended effect of flow-induced shear forces on red-cell orientation?
- GATE 2021 BM Q57 – A renal artery has lumen diameter 5 mm and mean blood speed 40 cm/s. Blood density is 1060 kg/m³ and viscosity 3 cP. Find Reynolds number to the…
- GATE 2022 BM Q46 – Which relation approximates arterial pulse-wave speed C in terms of inner diameter D, wall thickness t, wall elastic modulus E and fluid density ρ?
- GATE 2023 BM Q24 – Which dimensions represent dynamic viscosity, using M for mass, L for length and T for time?
- GATE 2023 BM Q31 – A tissue has Young’s modulus 3.6 kPa and Poisson’s ratio 0.2. Find its shear modulus in kPa, rounded to one decimal place.
- GATE 2024 BM Q31 – A cylindrical tissue has diameter 2 cm,height 3 cm,Young’s modulus 20 MPa. Under axial tensile force 10 N, find the percentage height increase to two…
- GATE 2025 BM Q22 – A 1 μm bacterium, 10 cm fish and 10 m whale each swim one body length per second in water. Their Reynolds numbers are R1,R2,R3 respectively. Which…
- GATE 2025 BM Q23 – A rod’s shape is position r(s) at arclength s, 0≤s≤l. Its bending energy is E=K 0l 2 r/ s2 2ds. Find dimensions of K.
- GATE 2025 BM Q34 – A tissue has Young’s modulus 4 kPa and shear modulus 1.5 kPa. Find Poisson’s ratio under the isotropic elastic relation.
- GATE 2025 BM Q49 – A Newtonian fluid of viscosity μ flows laminarly through a radius-R tube under a constant axial pressure gradient, with no slip. At radial position r,…
- GATE 2025 BM Q58 – For pulsatile flow in an artery of internal diameter 20 mm, wall thickness 1 mm and Young’s modulus 1 MPa, find wave speed in m/s to one decimal…
- GATE 2025 BM Q59 – An ideal massless spring with stiffness 1 N/m is cut into five equal lengths. Two pieces are connected in parallel as shown. Find resultant stiffness,…
- GATE 2026 BM Q20 – An incompressible cylindrical tissue initially has diameter 2 cm and height 3 cm. It undergoes homogeneous axial stretching by 10%. Find its final…
- GATE 2026 BM Q42 – A uniform 0.01 N shear force acts on the top of a 1 cm-sided tissue cube. The deformed shear angle is θ=5°. Treat the tissue as linear, isotropic and…
- GATE 2026 BM Q59 – Steady laminar blood flow passes through a tapered circular vessel. At sections A,B, radii are 0.5,0.45 cm. Average speed at A is 1 cm/s. Assuming…