Civil Engineering
2018 · Paper 1
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Question 27
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A cantilever beam of length 2 m with a square section of side length 0.1 m is loaded vertically at the free end. The vertical displacement at the free end is 5 mm. The beam is made of steel with Young’s modulus of 2.0×10
N/m
. The maximum bending stress at the fixed end of the cantilever isYour answerChoose one option.
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A cylinder of radius 250 mm and weight, W = 10 kN is rolled up an obstacle of height 50 mm by applying a horizontal force P at its centre as shown in the figure.

All interfaces are assumed frictionless. The minimum value of P is
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A plate in equilibrium is subjected to uniform stress along its edges with magnitude
MPa and
MPa as shown in the figure. 
The Young’s modulus of the material is 2×10
N/m
and the Poisson’s ratio is 0.3. If
is negligibly small and assumed to be zero, then the strain
isYour answerChoose one option.
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