5119 PRIYADARSHINI ENGINEERING COLLEGE

VANIYAMBADI-635751
BE, CAT - II, APRIL 2021
Fourth Semester
(Regulation 2017)
DEPARTMENT OF MECHANICAL ENGINEERING
CE8395 –STRENGTH OF MATERIALS FOR MECHANICAL ENGINEERS
TIME : 60 Mins. Date: 23.04.2021 Maximum Marks: 60 Marks
Answer All Questions
PART – A (30X1=30 Marks)
1. Design of thin cylinder is based on a.....
a. Hoop stress
b. Longitudinal stress
c. Bending stress
d. Shear stress 
2. Hoop stress (circumference stress) in thin cylindrical shell is.......
a. Longitudinal stress
b. Radial stress 
c. Compressive stress
d. Circumference tensile stress 
3. Pressure vessel is known (called) as thin shell when it made of thin streets.
a. True
b. False
4. Lame's theory is associated for a......
a. Thick cylinder 
b. Thin cylinder 
c. Both of cylinder 
d. None of these 
5. A Maximum tangential (shear) stress in a thick cylindrical shell is greater than
internal pressure action on the shell
a. True 
b. False
6. Cylindrical Pressure vessel is known as thin shell when  a , ratio of wall thickness of
the vessel to it's diameter is .............. 1/10.
a. Smaller than
b. Greater than
c. Equal to
d. Does not say

7. When diameter of pressure vessel is 15 times wall thickness, than vessel is called as
thin shell.
a. True 
b. False 

8. Hoop stress in a thick cylinder shell is maximum at the outer radius.

a. True
b. False

9. Hoop stress in a thick cylinder shell is maximum at the inner radius.

 a. True
b. False

10. Lamar's theory is associated for thin cylindrical shell.

a. True 
b. False 

11. If the thickness of plate is negligible when compared to the diameter of the cylindrical,
then it is called

a. Thick cylinder
b. Thin cylinder
c. Hoop cylinder
d. Circumferential cylinder

12. In thin cylinders, the thickness should be ____________ times of internal diameter.

a. 1/20
b. 1/15
c. 1/30
d. 1/40
13. Oil tanks, steam boilers, gas pipes are examples of _____________

a. Thickshells
b. Thincylinders
c. Hoopcylinders
d. Longitudinal cylinders
14. In _________ shells, the stress distribution is not uniform over the thickness of the
material.

a. Thick
b. Thin
c. Hoop
d. Circumferential
15. The stress acts tangential to circumference is called ______ stress.

a. Hoop
b. Fluid
c. Longitudinal
d. Yield
16. The hoop stress is _____________ along the x axis.

a. Tensile
b. Parabolic
c. Compressed
d. Transverse
17. The cylinder has a tendency to split up along _____________ due to circumferential
stress.
 a. Area
b. Radius
c. Diameter
d. Length
18. ____________ is half the circumferential stress.

a. Hoop stress
b. Longitudinal stress
c. Fluid stress
d. Transverse stress
19. An open ended thin cylinder shell, subjected to uniform internal pressure will be
subjected to

a. Hoop stress only

b. Longitudinal stress only
c. Both hoop and Longitudinal stress
d. None of the above

20. A thin spherical shell of diameter (d) and thickness (t) is subjected to an internal
pressure (p). The stress in the shell material is
a. pd/t
b. pd/2t
c. pd/4t
d. pd/8t
21. In a thick cylindrical shell subjected to an internal pressure (p), the tangential stress
across the thickness of a cylinder is

a. Maximum at the outer surface and minimum at the inner surface

b. Maximum at the inner surface and minimum at the outer surface
c. Maximum at the outer surface and zero at the inner surface
d. Maximum at the inner surface and zero at the outer surface
22. When a bar of length l, width b and thickness t is subjected to a push of P, its
a. Length, width and thickness increases
b. Length, width and thickness decreases
c. Length increases, width and thickness decreases
d. Length decreases, width and thickness increases
23. The compressive strength of brittle materials is _________ its tensile strength.
a) Equal to
b) Less than
c) Greater than
d) As same as

24. When the thickness of the wall of the cylinder is less than 1/10 to 1/15 of the diameter of
cylinder then the cylinder is considered as?
a. thick cylinder
 b. thin cylinder
c. large cylinder
d. small cylinder
25. Which stress tends to increase the length?
a. Longitudinal Stress
b. Volumetric strain
c. Circumferential Stress
d. All of the above
26. Minor principal stress equal to?
a. Hoop stress or circumferential stress
b. Longitudinal stress
c. Both A and B
d. None of the above
27. In thick cylinders, the axial stress across the thickness of cylinder

a. Remains uniform throughout

b. Varies from internal pressure at the inner surface to zero at the outer
c. Varies from maximum value at the inner surface to minimum value at the outer
surface 
d. Varies from maximum value at the outer surface to minimum value at the inner
surface 
28.