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College of Engineering

Midterm Examination

Name: ___________________________________ Date: __________

Subject: MECH 224A – Mechanics of Deformable Bodies Score: ⁄𝟑𝟎

Instructions:
 Write your solutions and answers in a bondpaper (long/short)
 Box your final answer
 No unit indicated in your final answer will be considered wrong
 Submit this in a PDF Format

Tabulate and Summarized All your final answers in the first page of your file.

Solve and show your solutions from the following problem

Figure for Prob. 1 - 3 Wire Details:

Materials = Steel
Cross Sectional Area of Each Wire = 0.0025 𝑖𝑛2
Modulus of elasticity of steel is 29 x 106 psi.
Length of Each Wire = 5 feet

Prob. 1
The weight of the lamp is 10 lbs. Determine the
elongation in wire CB and CA.

Prob. 2
If the tensile force of wire DF is 40 lbs. find the elongation in wire CB and CA.

Prob. 3
If the tensile force of wire BC is 125 lbs. find the elongation in wire DE and DF.
Prob. 4

If the cylinder has a mass of 10 kg and tensile

force CB is twice the value of tensile force CA.
Find the elongation in wire CB.

Wire Details:
Materials = Steel
Diameter of Each Wire = 10 mm
Modulus of elasticity of steel is 69 GPa.
Length of Each Wire = 1 meter

Prob. 5

Determine the value of elongation from cable AC

and BC.

Cable Details:
Materials = Steel
Diameter of Each Cable = 10 mm
Modulus of elasticity of steel is 69 GPa.
Length of Each Cable = 1 meter
Prob. 6

Determine what is the most nearly the total elongation of the rod in inches, if the Modulus of
Elasticity is 69,000 MPa. for each rod.

Prob. 7

Determine what is the most nearly the total elongation in inches of this rod which is made of
composite materials, if the Modulus of Elasticity are E1 = 70,000 MPa. and E2 = 100,000 MPa.
Prob. 8

In the given figure, to maintain the equilibrium of the system what must be the value of
distance X?
Note:
 Assume that the rigid bar is weightless
 The two cables that holding bar has the same material