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After reaching the yielding stage while testing a mild steel specimen, strain

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The load required to produce a unit deflection in a spring is called

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When a closely-coiled helical spring of mean diameter (D) is subjected to an axial load (W), the deflection of the spring () is given by (where d = Diameter of spring wire, n = No. of turns of the spring and C = Modulus of rigidity for the spring material)

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The value of Poisson's ratio for steel is between

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The intensity of stress which causes unit strain is called

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The ratio of the lateral strain to the linear strain is called

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The ratio of linear stress to the linear strain is called

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The force acting along the circumference will cause stress in the walls in a direction normal to the longitudinal axis of cylinder? This stress is called

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A beam of triangular section is placed with its base horizontal. The maximum shear stress occurs at

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A leaf spring is supported at the

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Two solid shafts 'A' and 'B' are made of the same material. The shaft 'A' is of 50 mm diameter and shaft 'B' is of 100 mm diameter. The strength of shaft 'B' is _________ as that of shaft A.

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For no tension condition in the base of a short column of circular section, the line of action of the load should be within a circle of diameter equal to __________ of the main circle.

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The volumetric strain is the ratio of the

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The elongation of a conical bar under its own weight is __________ that of prismatic bar of the same length.

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The extension of a circular bar tapering uniformly from diameter at one end to diameter at the other end and subjected to an axial pull of P is _________ the extension of a circular bar of diameter  subjected to the same load P.

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Longitudinal stress in a thin cylinder is

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In the below figure, the stress corresponding to point ‘D’ is
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Two closely coiled helical springs 'A' and 'B' are equal in all respects but the number of turns of spring 'A' is half that of spring 'B'. The ratio of deflections in spring 'A' to spring 'B' is

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Rivets are made of following type of material

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The breaking stress is __________ the ultimate stress.

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