Strength of Materials Assignment (25%)

Submission date: 07 July, 2022 (Next week Thursday morning at 5:00LT)

NB: This is an Individual assignment copying from one another will result in zero mark.

1 A beam is loaded by a couple of 1400 N.m at each of its ends, as shown in Fig 1. The beam is
. of steel and has a rectangular cross section, as shown. Determine the maximum bending stress
in the beam and indicate the variation of bending stress over the depth of the beam.

1400 N.m 1400 N.m

4 cm

2 cm

Figure 1.

2 A steel cantilever beam 6 m in length is subjected to a concentrated load of 1200 N acting at

. the free end of the bar. The beam is of rectangular cross section, 4 cm wide by 6 cm deep.
Determine the magnitude and location of the maximum tensile and compressive bending
stresses in the beam. As usual, neglect the weight of the beam.

3 Reconsider the question No. 2 for the case where the rectangular beam is replaced by an I- beam
. with cross section shown in Fig. 2. Determine the maximum tensile and compressive bending
stresses.
4cm
1cm
3cm

N.A.
1cm
3cm
1cm

Figure 2.

4 A plane element is subject to the stresses shown in Fig. 3. Determine (a) the principal stresses
. and their directions and (b) the maximum shearing stresses and the directions of the planes on
which they occur. Use the equations

y 30𝑀𝑃𝑎

90𝑀𝑝𝑎
x

40𝑀𝑃𝑎

Figure 3.
5 A plane element is subject to the stresses shown in Fig. 4. Using Mohr’s circle, determine (a) the
. principal stresses and their directions and (b) the maximum shearing stresses and the directions of the
planes on which they occur.

y 30𝑀𝑃𝑎

90𝑀𝑝𝑎
x

40𝑀𝑃𝑎

Figure 4.
6 A simply supported beam is subjected to a uniform load of 2kN/m over the region shown in Figure 5.
. Determine the maximum shearing force and bending moment in the beam by drawing SFD and BMD.

2 kN/m

1m 1m
2m

Figure 5.
7 For the cantilever beam loaded as shown in figure 6. Draw the shearing Force and bending moment
. diagrams.

2.4 kN 1.2 kN

A
B
2m 1m 1m

1.5 kN

Figure 6.