300040 Mechanics of Materials

2021 Tutorial Questions Set 3

Hand in during the week 22 to 26 March, as instructed by your tutor.

The questions for tute set 3 are on the following pages.

1. To help you to learn how to answer the questions, some questions will be answered during the
Lecture-Tutes (time permitting). These questions should still be handed in.

2. Based on what you learn in the lecture and the lecture-tute, attempt to answer the remaining
questions before the following week’s tute class.

3. If there are any questions you can’t answer, ask your tutor during the Zoom tute class

4. Email a pdf copy of your solutions to your tutor as instructed by your tutor.

5. Attach a completed copy of the enclosed coversheet.

As in previous weeks, the lecture video will be recorded via Panopto and placed on vUWS.
The video will appear shortly after the lecture time. You must watch the video.

As we are now presenting online, it is essential that you supplement watching the video by reading
the relevant sections of the text book:
Hibbeler Mechanics of Materials 10th edition SI units
Full reference: Hibbeler, RC & Yap, KB 2018, Mechanics of materials, 10th SI global edn,
Pearson Education, Harlow, England.

For this week’s tute set, you should read the following sections:
5.1, 5.2, 5.3, 5.4, 6.1
And attempt the sample problems associated with these sections.
Question 1.
Under normal operating conditions, the electric
motor exerts a torque of 2.4 kNm at A. Knowing that
each shaft is solid, determine the maximum
shearing stress (a) in shaft AB, (b) in shaft BC, (c) in
shaft CD.

Question 2.

Will be answered in the Lecture-tute.

The allowable stress is 50 MPa in the brass rod AB and 25
MPa in the aluminium rod BC. Knowing that a torque T =
1250 Nm is applied at A, determine the required diameter of
(a) rod AB, (b) for BC.

Question 3.
For the aluminium shaft show (G = 27 GPa), determine (a) the
torque T which causes an angle of twist of 5°, (b) the angle of
twist caused by the same torque T in a solid cylindrical shaft of
the same length and cross-sectional area.

Question 4.
The torques shown are exerted on pulleys A and B. Knowing that
the shafts are solid and made of aluminium (G = 77 GPa),
determine the angle of twist between (a) A and B, (b) A and C.
Question 5.

Will be answered in the Lecture-tute.

The torque shown are exerted on

pulleys B, C and D. Knowing that the
entire shaft is made of
steel (G = 27 GPa), determine the
angle of twist between (a) C and B, (b)
D and B.

Question 6.
A hollow shaft is to transmit 250 kW at a frequency of 30 Hz. Knowing that the shearing stress
must not exceed 50 MPa, design a shaft for which the ratio of the inner diameter to the outer
diameter is 0.75.

Question 7.

Will be answered in the Lecture-tute.

The design of the gear-and-shaft system shown

requires that steel shafts of the same diameter
be used for both AB and CD. It is further
required that τ max ≤ 60MPa and that the angle ϕD
through which end D of shaft CD rotates not
exceed 1.5º. Knowing that G = 77 GPa,
determine the required diameter of the shafts.

Question 8.
Find equations for Shear and bending moment, and
draw the shear and bending-moment diagrams for
the beam and loading shown.

Use P = 4kN, a = 2m, b=3m

Question 9.
Find equations for Shear and bending moment, and
draw the shear and bending-moment diagrams for the
beam and loading shown.

Use ω = 4kN/m, L=6m

Question 10.
Will be answered in the Lecture-tute.
Find equations for Shear and bending moment, and
draw the shear and bending-moment diagrams for the
beam and loading shown.

Use ω = 4kN/m, a=1.5m, L=6m

Question 11.
Put a staple near the edge so
that all your work can be seen
on every page.

Assignment Cover Sheet

300040 Mechanics of Materials
School of Computing, Engineering and Maths

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