GATE Solid Mechanics: Simple stress and strain relationships – Previous Year Questions

6 GATE previous year questions on Simple stress and strain relationships (Solid Mechanics, Civil Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.

GATE 2023 CE (CE1) Q12 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A hanger is made of two bars of different sizes. Each bar has a square cross-section. The hanger is loaded by three-point loads in the mid vertical…
GATE 2025 CE (CE1) Q51 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Consider the rigid bar ABC supported by the pin-jointed links BD and CE and subjected to a load P at the end A, as shown in the figure. The axial…
GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q16 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A plane strain problem (in X-Y plane) must satisfy the condition:
GATE 2026 CE (CE2) Q50 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – Linearly elastic, homogeneous, uniform bars BCD and FG shown in the figure have fixed supports at B and G, respectively. For both the bars, axial…
GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q13 (1 mark, Multiple choice) – A thin-walled spherical gas balloon of radius R and wall thickness t (t R) is subjected to an internal (gauge) pressure p. The maximum tensile and…
GATE 2026 CE (CE1) Q51 (2 marks, Numerical answer) – A homogenous, linearly elastic rod AB is connected to a linearly elastic spring BC in between the fixed supports at A and C, as shown in the figure.…