GATE Structures: Strength of materials: stress and strain, stress-strain curves, trusses, bars, beams and shafts, determinate and indeterminate – Previous Year Questions
18 GATE previous year questions on Strength of materials: stress and strain, stress-strain curves, trusses, bars, beams and shafts, determinate and indeterminate (Structures, Aerospace Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2021 AE Q49 – A beam has deflection v=w48EI(2x4-3Lx3+L3x). The location of maximum deflection, expressed as x/L, is (two decimals)
- GATE 2021 AE Q61 – Cantilever beams AB and DC contact at their free ends through a roller. Both have 50×50 mm square cross sections and E=70 GPa. AB is 400 mm long under…
- GATE 2021 AE Q62 – A 3 m ×1 m signboard is supported by a hollow square pole fixed to the ground. Its outer side is 250 mm, and material yield strength 240 MPa. The sign…
- GATE 2022 AE Q20 – A beam with a symmetrical T-shaped cross-section, as shown in the figure, is subjected to pure bending. The maximum magnitude of the normal stress is…
- GATE 2022 AE Q21 – A three-member truss is simply supported at Q and R, and loaded at P by a horizontal force F as shown. The force in QR is
- GATE 2022 AE Q57 – The tip deflection and tip slope of a tip-loaded cantilever of length L are NL3/(3EI) and NL2/(2EI), where N is tip force. A rectangular cantilever PQ…
- GATE 2022 AE Q60 – A 10 kN axial load acts eccentrically on a square rod of cross section 1 cm ×1 cm. Top and bottom strain gauges 0.5 m from the tip measure 1=0.0016…
- GATE 2022 AE Q61 – For a thin-walled I section, the width of the two flanges as well as the web height are the same, i.e., 2b = 20 mm. Thickness is 0.6 mm. The second…
- GATE 2023 AE Q49 – A rigid bar AB is subjected to a uniformly distributed load of 100 N/m as shown in the figure. The bar is supported by rod CD, with A, C, and D as pin…
- GATE 2023 AE Q50 – A cantilever beam of length 2a is loaded at the tip with force F as shown in the figure. The beam is supported in the middle by a roller with a pin.…
- GATE 2026 AE Q40 – Consider a unit square body as shown in the figure below. The body is subjected to the deformation field u = -ay and v = ax, where 'a' is a constant.…
- GATE 2026 AE Q60 – A stepped cantilever beam, made of a material having Young's modulus E = 200 GPa, is shown in the figure below. The length and the moment of inertia…
- GATE 2025 AE Q27 – A simply supported horizontal beam is subjected to a distributed transverse load varying linearly from q 0 at A to zero at B, as shown in the figure.…
- GATE 2025 AE Q30 – In the given figure, plate ABCD in its undeformed configuration (solid line) is a rhombus with all the internal angles being 90o. The lengths of the…
- GATE 2025 AE Q37 – A 1 m long rod is to be designed to support an axial tensile load P (P weight of the rod). The material for the rod is to be chosen from one of the…
- GATE 2025 AE Q55 – A 1 m long rod of 1 cm 1 cm cross section is subjected to an axial tensile force of 35 kN. The Young's modulus of the material is 70 GPa. The…
- GATE 2025 AE Q56 – For a three-bar truss loaded as shown in the figure, the magnitude of the force in the horizontal member AB is N (answer in integer).
- GATE 2024 AE Q53 – In the figure shown below, the magnitude of internal force in member BC is N (rounded off to 1 decimal place).