ES 13 THY PROB SET 1

I. Stresses
1. Two wooden boards (300mm wide and 25mm thick) designed to carry a 10-kN load are
joined together by two 300-mm wide plywood gussets glued above and below the boards as
shown below. There is a 5-mm gap between the two wood boards at the joint. Assuming that
the failure of the glue governs, what is the required strength of the glue? Use a factor of
safety of 1.50.


2. Steel plates B and C are fully glued to member A thus, forming a compound member as
shown in the figure. This will be used to punch two holes in a 12-mm thick wooden plank. If
the maximum average shearing stress in the glue is 570 MPa, and the allowable normal
stress in member A is 800 MPa, (thickness of A, B, and C is 25 mm) determine:
a. P
max
that can be applied to the compound member.
b. Is this force P
max
enough to punch holes in the plank if the failure shearing stress in the
plank is 750 MPa?
P


A A
80 mm

60 mm
B C













II. Strain
1. Load P is applied on the rigid bar BD causing a shearing strain at point B equal to 0.09
radians. Knowing angle ABC is initially 90 and AB = BC = 0.3 m, determine:
a. normal strain at AB
b. normal strain at BC
c. normal strain on 0.5-m post E









III. Material Properties
1. A square plate in the figure on the right has
the following dimensions before normal
stresses are applied: L
x
= L
y
= 160 mm,
t=20 mm. Its Poissons ratio, = 0.283, and
its modulus of rigidity, G = 30 GPa. It is
then subjected to normal stresses on ALL
its faces and deforms.
a) If the normal stresses are
x
= 444 MPa,

y
= 222 MPa, and its new length along
the x-direction is 160.8437 mm, find
z
.
b) Find the new thickness of the plate, t.
c) Find the new length along the y direction
2. At the proportional limit, a 200-mm gage length of a 15-mm diameter alloy bar has
elongated 0.90 mm and the diameter has been reduced 0.022 mm. the total axial load carried
was 58.4 kN. Determine the following properties of this material:
a. The modulus of elasticity
b. Poissons ratio
c. The proportional limit











y
z
0.5 m 0.5 m
20 mm
B
A C
D
E
P
IV. Axially Loaded Members
A. Statically Determinate
1. A 10-mm-diameter cable AC is made of steel with E = 200 GPa and attached to a rigid
bar BC. Knowing that the maximum stress in the cable must not exceed 190 MPa, and
that elongation of the cable must not exceed 8 mm, find the maximum load P that can
be applied as shown.












2. Bar ABCD is subjected to the following loads as shown. Determine the maximum
value of force P that can be applied to the bar if
allow
used for design is based on
ultimate strength and
allow
(of bar ABCD) = 1.2 mm.
Note: Member AB at inner diameter is hollow.





Aluminum Steel
Copper



Properties Aluminum Copper Steel
E (GPa) 70 120 200

yp
(MPa) 180 200 300

ult
(MPa) 310 400 580
FS 2 4 3









A
B
C
4m
3m
P

B. Statically Indeterminate
1. Three bars AB, AC, and AD, are pinned together to support a load of 20 kN.
Horizontal movement is prevented at joint A by a horizontal strut AE. Note: All
supports are pin-connected.

Bars AB and AD:
E = 70 GPa
A = 400 mm
2

Bar AC:
E = 200 GPa
A = 200 mm
2







Determine
a.
avg
in each bar (AB, AC, and AD)
b. Force in the strut AE

2. In the figure shown below, each of the two vertical steel posts (E = 200 GPa, =
1210
-6
/C) has a height of 300 mm and a diameter of 50 mm. If the springs each has a
stiffness of 0.5 kN/m, determine the resulting stress in the steel posts if the temperature
is raised by 70C. Assume that springs are initially unstretched. Neglect the masses of
the rigid members.


3. A system of bars is attached to a spring with spring constant k = 5000 kN/m. Bar B is
assumed to be rigid, and bars A & C are deformable with properties given in the Table.
Determine the horizontal and vertical components of the displacement of pin p when
the system is subjected to a 60C increase in temperature.