List of top Civil Structural and Transport Engineering Questions on Strength of Materials

A rectangular section has width $b$ and depth $d$ and a symmetrical triangular section has base $b$ and depth $d$. The ratio of moment of inertia of rectangular section to that of triangular section with respect to their respective centroidal axis will be:

A steel wire of $20$ mm diameter is bent into a circular shape of $10$ m radius. If modulus of elasticity of wire is $2\times10^{5}\ \text{N/mm}^2$, then the maximum bending stress induced in wire is:

Shape of the "shear force diagram" for a simply supported beam subjected to pure moment $M$ at the center of span, will be:
Which of the following statements is correct?

Which of the following statements are correct? 

A. Malleability is the ability of a material to absorb strain energy till the elastic limit. 
B. Toughness is the ability of a material to absorb energy till the rupture. 
C. Resilience is the area under the load deformation curve within the elastic limit. 
D. Stress-strain diagram of highly brittle material has no plastic zone. 
Choose the most appropriate answer from the options given below:

The degree of static indeterminacy of the beam (as shown below) for general case of loading is: