Engineering Sciences
2026 · Paper 1
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Questions 85–87 of 197. Imported answers require review unless explicitly marked reviewed.
Question 85
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A solid axial bar made of steel with Young’s modulus, 200 GPa and Poisson’s ratio, 0.3, is subjected to uniaxial stress of 50 MPa.
The absolute value of the maximum shear strain on the outer surface of the bar is _____ × 10⁻⁴ (rounded off to two decimal places).
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EFGH (solid lines) is the initial configuration and E′F′G′H′ (dashed lines) is the deformed configuration of an object as shown in the figure. E′ coincides with E and F′ coincides with F.
The average normal strain along the line segment OP is _____ (rounded off to three decimal places).
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A simply supported beam of length
m is subjected to a concentrated moment
kNm at a distance
from the left end as shown in the figure. The elastic-strain energy
of the beam is given by the following expression:
The section modulus of the beam is
Nm².The absolute value of the slope of the beam at a distance
from the left end is _____ (rounded off to three decimal places). 
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