Strength Of Materials QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS

Civil Engineering : Strength Of Materials QUESTIONS AND ANSWERS :: part2 : 16 to 20

Following Civil Engineering Multiple choice objective type questions and answers will help you in BSNL JTO, GATE 2024 and IES 2024 examinations :

16.Of the two prismatic beams of same material, length and flexural strength, one is circular and other is square in cross-section. The ratio of weights of circular and square beams is

1.118

1.342

1.000

0.793

17.The ratio of width to depth of a strongest beam that can be cut out of a cylindrical log of wood is

1/2

1/V2

1/3

2/3

18.A prismatic beam fixed at both ends carries a uniformly distributed load. The ratio of bending moment at the supports to the bending moment at mid-span is

0.5

1.0

1.5

2.0

19.The difference in ordinate of the shear curve between any two sections is equal to the area under

load curve between these two sections

shear curve between these two sections

bending moment curve between these two sections

load curve between these two sections plus concentrated loads applied between the sections

20.The variation of the bending moment in the portion of a beam carrying linearly varying load is

linear

parabolic