GATE AE · 2026 · AE
Question 40: Strength of Materials
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Question 40
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Consider a unit square body as shown in the figure below. The body is subjected to the deformation field
and
, where ‘a’ is a constant. Due to the application of this deformation field, the body undergoes ______ in the x-y plane.

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2026AE
GATE AE 2026 · Paper 1
Aerospace Engineering · Original paper archive
- Section
- Aerospace Engineering
- Question type
- Multiple choice (MCQ)
- Marks
- 2 marks
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