School of Engineering and Technology

Navrachana University, Vadodara

CE 201: Strength of Materials
Assignment 2
Assignment Date: 1st August 2013

Submission Date: 12th August 2013

1. Explain tensors and further, explain why stress is a tensor.

2. Explain with a neat sketch the state of three dimensional stress at a point in a
body and write the stress tensor.
3. A bar is under axial compression of 40MPa and clockwise shear of 20 MPa.
Write the stress tensor for a point in the bar.
4. Explain shear stress and complementary shear stress. Explain why
complementary stress is developed.
5. With the help of neat sketches, explain why shear stress on a section is not
uniform even if uniform shear force is applied.
6. Explain bearing pressure.
7. Explain one way shear and two way shear.
8. Derive equations for normal stress and shear stress on a given plane on a bar
under axial stress. Also, draw Mohrs circle for the same.
9. Draw Mohrs circle for a bar under axial stress of 100 MPa. Calculate
analytically and graphically (on a graph paper), the values of normal and
shear stress on a plane having a normal at angle 30 o to horizontal.

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