GATE Structures: Flight vehicle structures: torsion, bending and shear of thin-walled sections, loads on aircraft – Previous Year Questions
13 GATE previous year questions on Flight vehicle structures: torsion, bending and shear of thin-walled sections, loads on aircraft (Structures, Aerospace Engineering) with answers and explanations, from every paper.
- GATE 2021 AE Q60 – A two-cell wing box has rectangular cells 200×300 and 300×300 mm, wall thickness 1.5 mm and shear modulus 27 GPa. Under torque 12 kN m, the magnitude…
- GATE 2021 AE Q63 – An airplane of mass 5500 kg, initially in steady level flight at 225 m/s, starts a steady pull-up with curvature radius 775 m. CG is 20 cm ahead of…
- GATE 2022 AE Q22 – The closed thin-walled rectangular channel shown in figure (i) is opened by introducing a sharp cut at the center of the bottom edge, as shown in…
- GATE 2023 AE Q23 – Consider the four basic symmetrical flight loading conditions corresponding to the corners of a typical V-n diagram. For one of these flight loading…
- GATE 2023 AE Q27 – Which of the following statement(s) is/are true about the ribs of an airplane wing with semi-monocoque construction?
- GATE 2023 AE Q48 – The thickness of a uniform hollow circular shaft is equal to the difference between the outer radius and the inner radius. The ratio of the inner…
- GATE 2023 AE Q52 – The shear flow distribution in a single cell, thin-walled beam under the action of an arbitrary shear load ys applied at the shear centre S is shown…
- GATE 2026 AE Q17 – A cantilever beam with an unsymmetric cross-section is subjected to a transverse shear force (P) at its free end. P acts at the shear center of the…
- GATE 2026 AE Q45 – The deformation of an open-section bar subjected to pure torsion can be solved by choosing an appropriate Prandtl stress function. Which of the…
- GATE 2026 AE Q58 – A thin-walled circular tube is made of a material whose magnitude of the ultimate strength, both in tension and compression, is 200 MPa. The mean…
- GATE 2025 AE Q60 – Two designs A and B, shown in the figure, are proposed for a thin-walled closed section that is expected to carry only torque. Both A and B have a…
- GATE 2024 AE Q33 – An airplane experiences a net vertical ground reaction of 15000 N during landing. The weight of the airplane is 10000 N. The landing vertical load…
- GATE 2024 AE Q54 – The cross section of a thin-walled beam with uniform wall thickness t, shown in the figure, is subjected to a bending moment M x = 10 Nm. If h = 1 m…