Mechanical Engineering
2020 · Paper 1
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Question 39
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A rectangular steel bar of length 500 mm, width 100 mm, and thickness 15 mm is cantilevered to a 200 mm steel channel using 4 bolts, as shown.

For an external load of 10 kN applied at the tip of the steel bar, the resultant shear load on the bolt at B, is ______ kN (round off to one decimal place).
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The barrier shown between two water tanks of unit width (1 m) into the plane of the screen is modeled as a cantilever.

Taking the density of water as 1000 kg/m³, and the acceleration due to gravity as 10 m/s², the maximum absolute bending moment developed in the cantilever is ______ kN·m (round off to the nearest integer).
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The magnitude of reaction force at joint C of the hinge-beam shown in the figure is ____ kN (round off to 2 decimal places).

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