Question 82

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A vertical column fixed at one end is subjected to a compressive axial load at the free end. The column’s section modulus, EI, is

and the cross-section area is

. The length of the column is 2 m. The yield stress of the material is 145 MPa. If the column can fail either in buckling or by Tresca’s criterion, the maximum load that the structure can safely sustain is ____ kN (rounded off to one decimal place).

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2025XE-D

GATE XE 2025 · Paper 1

Engineering Sciences · Original paper archive

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Section XE-D
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Numerical answer (NAT)
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