Strength of Materials Chapters

CHAPTER ONE

1. Simple Stress and Strain

Strength of Materials Questions and

Answers – Strain
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This set of Strength of Materials Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses
on “Strain”.

1. The dimension of strain is?

a) LT-2
b) N/m2
c) N
d) Dimensionless
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: Strain is the ratio of change in dimension to original dimension. So it is
dimensionless.

2. What is tensile strain?

a) The ratio of change in length to the original length
b) The ratio of original length to the change in length
c) The ratio of tensile force to the change in length
d) The ratio of change in length to the tensile force applied
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: The tensile stress is the ratio of tensile force to the change i length. It is the
stress induced in a body when subjected to two equal and opposite pulls. The ratio of
change in length to the original length is the tensile strain.

3. Find the strain of a brass rod of length 250mm which is subjected to a tensile load of
50kN when the extension of rod is equal to 0.3mm?
a) 0.025
b) 0.0012
c) 0.0046
d) 0.0014
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Strain = dL/L = 0.3/250 = 0.0012

4. Find the elongation of an steel rod of 100mm length when it is subjected to a tensile
strain of 0.005?
a) 0.2mm
b) 0.3mm
c) 0.5mm
d) 0.1mm
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: dL = strain x L = 0.005 x 100 = 0.5mm.

5. A tensile test was conducted on a mild steel bar. The diameter and the gauge length
of bat was 3cm and 20cm respectively. The extension was 0.21mm. What is the value to
strain?
a) 0.0010
b) 0.00105
c) 0.0105
d) 0.005
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Strain = dL/L = 0.21/200 = 0.0005.

6. i) Strain is a fundamental behaviour of a material.

ii) Strain does not have a unit.
a) Both i and ii are true and ii is the correct explanation of i
b) Both i and ii ate true but ii is not the correct explanation of i
c) i is true but ii is false
d) ii is true but i is false
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Strain is measured in a laboratory that is why it is called a fundamental
quantity. Also since it is the ratio of the dimension of length to the dimension of length, it
is dimensionless.

7. A tensile test was conducted on a steel bar. The gauge length of the bar was 10cm
and the extension was 2mm. What will be the percentage elongation?
a) 0.002
b) 0.02
c) 0.2
d) 2
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: The percentage elongation = dL/L x 100 = 2/100 x 100 = 2.

8. The lateral strain is ___________

a) The ratio of axial deformation to the original length
b) The ratio of deformation in area to the original area
c) The strain at right angles to the direction of applied load
d) The ratio of length of body to the tensile force applied on it
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The lateral strain is the strain at right angles to the direction of the applied
load. The lateral strain is accompanied by the longitudinal strain.

9. The unit of force in S.I. units is ?

a) Kilogram
b) Newton
c) Watt
d) Dyne
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Force = mass x acceleration = kg x m/s2 = N.

10. Which of the following is not the unit of distance?

a) Angstrom
b) Light year
c) Micron
d) Milestone
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: Milestone means achievement. it is not and unit of distance.

11. A solid cube is subjected to equal normal forces on all its faces. The volumetric
strain will be x-times the linear strain in any of the three axes when?
a) X=1
b) X=2
c) X=3
d) X=4
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The volumetric strain is the change in dimension in three directions and the
linear strain depends on the change in only one direction so the volumetric strain is 1
times the linear strain in any of the three directions.

12. A rod 200cm long is subjected to an axial pull due to which it elongates about 2mm.
Calculate the amount of strain?
a) 0.001
b) 0.01
c) 0.02
d) 0.002
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: The strain is given by = dL / L = 2/2000 = 0.001.

13. Some structural members subjected to a long time sustained loads deform
progressively with time especially at elevated temperatures. What is such a
phenomenon called?
a) Fatigue
b) Creep
c) Creep relaxation
d) Fracture
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Creep is the deformation progressively with time. It comes when the body is
subjected to long time load. After the instant deflection due to load, the deformation
occurs slowly with time.

14. Find the strain of a brass rod of length 100mm which is subjected to a tensile load of
50kN when the extension of rod is equal to 0.1mm?
a) 0.01
b) 0.001
c) 0.05
d) 0.005
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Strain = dL/L = 0.1/100 = 0.001.

Strength of Materials Questions and

Answers – Elasticity
This set of Strength of Materials Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses
on “Elasticity”.

1. The property by which a body returns to its original shape after removal of the force is
called __________
a) Plasticity
b) Elasticity
c) Ductility
d) Malleability
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: When an external force acts on a body, the body tends to undergo some
deformation. If the external force is removed and the body comes back to its original
shape and size, the body is known as elastic body and this property is called elasticity.

2. The property of a material by which it can be beaten or rolled into thin plates is called
__________
a) Malleability
b) Plasticity
c) Ductility
d) Elasticity
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: A material can be beaten into thin plates by its property of malleability.

3. Which law is also called as the elasticity law?

a) Bernoulli’s law
b) Stress law
c) Hooke’s law
d) Poisson’s law
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The hooke”s law is valid under the elastic limit of a body. It itself states that
stress is proportional to the strain within the elastic limit.

4. The materials which have the same elastic properties in all directions are called
__________
a) Isotropic
b) Brittle
c) Homogeneous
d) Hard
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: Same elastic properties in all direction is called the homogenity of a
material.

5. A member which does not regain its original shape after removal of the load producing
deformation is said __________
a) Plastic
b) Elastic
c) Rigid
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: A plastic material does not regain its original shape after removal of load.
An elastic material regain its original shape after removal of load.

6. The body will regain it is previous shape and size only when the deformation caused
by the external forces, is within a certain limit. What is that limit?
a) Plastic limit
b) Elastic limit
c) Deformation limit
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: The body only regain its previous shape and size only upto its elastic limit.

7. The materials which have the same elastic properties in all directions are called
__________
a) Isotropic
b) Brittle
c) Homogenous
d) Hard
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: Isotropic materials have the same elastic properties in all directions.

8. As the elastic limit reaches, tensile strain __________

a) Increases more rapidly
b) Decreases more rapidly
c) Increases in proportion to the stress
d) Decreases in proportion to the stress
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: On reaching the tensile stress to the elastic limit after the proportionality
limit, the stress is no longer proportional to the strain. Then the value of strain rapidly
increases.

9. What kind of elastic materials are derived from a strain energy density function?
a) Cauchy elastic materials
b) Hypo elastic materials
c) Hyper elastic materials
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The hyper elastic materials are derived from a strain energy density
function. A model is hyper elastic if and only if it is possible to express the cauchy stress
tensor as a function of the deformation gradient.

10. What the number that measures an object’s resistance to being deformed elastically
when stress is applied to it?
a) Elastic modulus
b) Plastic modulus
c) Poisson’s ratio
d) Stress modulus
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: The elastic modulus is the ratio of stress to strain.

Strength of Materials Questions and

Answers – Hooke’s Law
This set of Strength of Materials Multiple Choice Questions & Answers (MCQs) focuses
on “Hooke’s Law”.

1. The law which states that within elastic limits strain produced is proportional to the
stress producing it is known as _____________
a) Bernoulli’s law
b) Hooke’s law
c) Stress law
d) Poisson’s law
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Hooke’s law states that strain is directly proportional to strain produced by
the stress when a material is loaded within the elastic limit.

2. For an isotropic, homogeneous and elastic material obeying Hooke’s law, the number
of independent elastic constants is ____________
a) 2
b) 3
c) 9
d) 1
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: There are 3 constants Young’s modulus, Shear modulus and Bulk modulus.

3. What is the factor of safety?

a) The ratio of stress to strain
b) The raio of permissible stress to the ultimate stress
c) The ratio of ultimate stress to the permissible stress
d) The ratio of longitudinal strain to stress
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: Factor of safety is the ratio of ultimate stress to the permissible stress.
4. What is Hooke’s law for the 1-D system?
a) The relation between normal stress and the corresponding strain
b) The relation between shear stress and the corresponding strain
c) The relation between lateral strain and the corresponding stress
d) None of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: For the 1-D system, the stress will be only in one direction. Lateral stress is
for an area while normal stress is of a length.

5. Limit of proportionality depends upon ____________

a) Area of cross-section
b) Type of loading
c) Type of material
d) All of the mentioned
View Answer
Answer: a
Explanation: The proportionality limit is proportional to the area of cross-section. The
material type and loading type will have no influence on the proportionality limit.

6. The stress at which extension of a material takes place more quickly as compared to
the increase in load is called ____________
a) Elastic point
b) Plastic point
c) Breaking point
d) Yielding point
View Answer
Answer: d
Explanation: On the stress strain curve, on the elastic point the stress of a material takes
place more quickly.

7. Which of these is a non-hoookean material?

a) Steel
b) Rubber
c) Aluminium
d) Copper
View Answer
Answer: b
Explanation: Rubber is generally regarded as a “non-hookean” material because its
elasticity is stress dependent and sensitive to temperature and loading rate.

8. Where in the stress-strain curve, the hooke’s law is valid?

a) Strain hardening region
b) Necking region
c) Elastic range
d) Valid everywhere
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The hooke’s law itself states that it is valid only up to the elastic range of
the material I.e. only to that limit where the material is behaving elastic.

9. Highest value of stress for which Hooke’s law is applicable for a given material is
called ____________
a) Stress limit
b) Strain limit
c) Proportional limit
d) Significant limit
View Answer
Answer: c
Explanation: The hooke’s law is valid only when the stress is proportional to the strain,
that is only in the proportionality limit.