Digital Assignment 1 (MOSF)

1. A rigid bar AB is hinged at A and supported in a horizontal position by two identical vertical steel wires
as shown in figure. Find the tensile forces S1 and S2 induced in these wires by a vertical load P applied
as shown.

2. At a certain point in a strained material, there exists a stress condition as shown in figure. Find
(a) The normal and shear stresses on the inclined plane AB, (b) principal stresses and principal planes.

3. Compute the principal stresses and locate the principal planes for the bi-axial stress element shown in
the figure.

4. A homogeneous slender prismatic bar of total length 2l rotates with constant angular velocity  in a
horizontal plane about a fixed axis through its mid-point as shown in the figure. The cross sectional
area of the bar is A and its weight per unit volume is  . Find the maximum stress  and the total
elongation  of either half of the bar due to centrifugal tension.