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DEDAN KIMATHI UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY

UNIVERSITY EXAMINATIONS - 2019/2020 ACADEMIC YEAR

SECOND YEAR SPECIAL/SUPPLEMENTARY EXAMINATIONS

FOR THE BACHELOR IN TECHNOLOGY IN BUILDING CONSTRUCTION


(MODULE III)

DEPARTMENT OF CIVIL ENGINEERING

COURSE CODE: ECE2204


COURSE NAME: STRENGTH OF MATERIALS I

19th DECEMBER 2019 TIME: 2-4PM

Instructions

i. This paper contains FIVE (5) Questions


ii. You are required to answer ANY THREE (3) Questions
iii. All questions carry equal marks (each 20mks)
iv. Illustrate your answers with clear sketches and diagrams
v. State any assumptions used in your calculations
vi. Any form of cheating is prohibited
Question 1 (20mks)

i) Define the following terms;


a) Factor of Safety
b) Modulus of rigidity
(2mks)
ii) With an aid of a diagram describe longitudinal and lateral strain (3mks)
iii) The ultimate stress for a hollow steel column which carries an axial load of 1.9MN is
480N/mm2. Determine the internal diameter given that the external diameter is 200mm. Take
factor of safety as 4 (5mks)
iv) A composite bar made up of Aluminum and steel is held together between two supports as
shown in Fig 2. The bars are stress free at a temperature of 40oC. Calculate the stress in the
two bars when the temperature is 20oC given that
a) The supports are non-yielding
b) The supports come nearer to each other by 0.1mm
Take Esteel = 210GN/m2
Ealuminium = 74GN/m2
Coefficient of expansion, steel = 11.7x10-6 per oC
Coefficient of expansion, aluminium = 11.7x10-6 per oC

Fig.Q1

(10mks)
Question 2 (20mks)
i) A simply supported beam 100mm wide and 120mm deep is 5m long and carries a load of
8kN at the mid-span. The load is inclined at an angle of 30o to the vertical (Fig.Q2. Calculate
the locations and magnitudes of maximum tensile and compressive stresses set up due to
bending

Fig. Q2

(10mks)
ii) Fig. Q2ii) below shows two symmetrical channel sections kept back to back. Calculate the
distance between the sections such that Ixx = Iyy

Fig. Q2ii

(10mks)
Question 3 (20mks)
i) Define the terms
a) Principal planes
b) Principal stresses
c) Obliquity
(3mks)
ii) At a point in a strained material the principal tensile stresses across two perpendicular planes
are 80N/mm2 and 40N/mm2 (Fig Q3). Determine
a) Normal stress, shear stress, resultant stress on a plane inclined at 20o with the major
principal plane (9mks)
b) Obliquity (3mks)
c) The intensity of stress, which acting alone will produce the same maximum strain
given that Poisson’s ratio is 0.25 (5mks)

Fig. Q3

Question 4 (20mks)
i) Explain the meaning of “simple bending” or “pure bending” and state any THREE
assumptions made in the theory (4mks)

ii) Show that the section modulus of a rectangular hollow section in Fig.Q4 is given as
Fig. Q4

(5mks)

iii) A rectangular beam 300mm is simply supported over a span of 4m (Fig Q4iii). Determine
the uniformly distributed load per metre which the beam may carry, if the bending stress
is not to exceed 120N/mm2. Take I = 8x106mm4

Fig. Q4iii

(5mks)

iv) A rolled steel joist of I section as shown in Fig.6. The beam of an I section carries a
uniformly distributed load of 40kN/m run on a span of 10m. Calculate the maximum
stress due to bending

Fig. Q4iv

(6mks
Question 5 (20mks)

i) Define “shear stress” in beams and state its S.I. units (2mks)
ii) Prove that the maximum shear stress in a rectangular section of a beam is given by where
F-shear force, b-breadth, d-depth of the section (Fig Q5ii)

Fig. Q5ii

(5mks)
iii) A timber beam of rectangular section is simply supported at its ends and carries a point
load at center of the beam. The maximum bending stress is 12N/mm2 and maximum
shearing stress is N/mm2, Calculate the ratio of the span to the depth of the beam section
(8mks)

iv) A simply supported beam of span 1.3m having a cross-section 150mm wide by 250mm
deep carries a point load W at the centre. The permissible stress are 7N/mm2 in bending
and 1N/mm2 in shearing. Calculate the safe load W that the beam can carry on bending
and shear stress considerations
(5mks)

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