Stress Analysis MCQs
Stress Analysis MCQs
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1: What type of stress occurs when an axial load is applied perpendicular to cross sectional area?
A. Shear Stress
B. Compression Stress
C. Composite Stress
D. Normal Stress
2: What is the component of engineering stress that is coplanar to cross sectional area?
A. Tensional Stress
B. Flexural Stress
C. Shear Stress
D. Compressive Stress
3: What is an example of normal strain?
A. Maximal shear strain
B. Circular deformation
C. Absolute deformation in a plane perpendicular to the cross-sectional area
D. Relative deformation perpendicular to the cross-sectional area
4: What is a relative deformation measure parallel to the cross-sectional area?
A. Laminate Stress
B. Young's Modulus
C. Shear Strain
D. Slenderness
5: What is the property that measures a material's stiffness?
A. Young's Modulus
B. Modulus of Rigidity
C. Modulus of Elasticity
D. Resistance to linear displacement
6: What term refers to the point at which a material will begin to plastic deform?
A. Shear Stress
B. Shear Strength
C. Yield Stress
D. Brittle Fracture
7: What is the moment that is applied to a body that causes the material to twist?
A. Moment of Inertia
B. Gravity
C. Torque
D. Force
8: What do moments of inertia help explain?
A. A body's tendency to resist angular acceleration
B. A body's tendency to resist a change in velocity
C. The resistance to change of a body's velocity
D. The motion of a rotating object
9: The ratio of shear stress over shear strain is called?
A. Shear Strength
B. Toughness
C. Shear Rate
D. Shear Modulus
10: What is the coefficient of thermal expansion used for?
A. Describes how the size of an object will change depending on its temperature
B. Determines how much heat energy is needed
C. Measures how much heat a material can absorb
D. Measures the change in the volume of a material when heated
11: What is the name of the structure's ability to resist deformation?
A. Punctual stiffness
B. Shear Modulus
C. Elasticity
D. Shear Stiffness
E. Bending Stiffness
12: What is the definition of Linear Elastic?
A. A material that does not deform when subjected to a compressive force
B. A material that can deform indefinitely without breaking
C. A material that returns to its original shape when a load is removed
D. When a load is applied, after unloading the material it will regain its original shape given enough time
13: A material that contains the same properties in any direction is referred to as what?
A. A homogeneous material
B. Homogeneous
C. An isotropic material
D. Isotropic
14: A material that contains different properties in a different direction is referred to as what?
A. A homogeneous material
B. Homogeneous
C. An isotropic material
D. Anisotropic
15: What is defined as A deformation that causes irreversible damage to the material's original shape?
A. Metal Deformation
B. Thermal Deformation
C. Glass Deformation
D. Plastic Deformation
16: According to Hooke's Law, what will increase with increasing strain?
A. Force
B. Temperature
C. Stress
D. Speed
17: What is the name of the correction applied when the yield stress is exceeded?
A. Stress Redistribution
B. Bowstring Force
C. Shear Failure
D. Bending
18: What is the term used to describe Stress that will present after all external loads are removed?
A. Corrective Action
B. Residual Stress
C. Static Loading
D. Fatigue
19: What is the zone where stress varies linearly with the strain?
A. Elastic Core
B. Ultrastructure
C. Nylon String
D. Tough Skin
20: What type of axis does a cross section have that doesn't have any longitudinal stresses or strains?
A. Neutral Axis
B. Longitudinal Axis
C. Shear Axis
D. Vertical AXIS
E. Transverse Axis
21: What theory says that planes perpendicular to the long axis of a beam remain in plane and perpendicular during deformation?
A. Euler's Principle of Torsion
B. Euler's Theory of Plasticity
C. Hooke's Law
D. Classical Beam Theory
22: Where is the maximum stress a body can have?
A. Muscle Groups
B. Pregnant Women
C. Athletic Training
D. Principle Stresses
E. Fatiguing Posts
23: What is the basic principle of a principal direction?
A. Where the principal stresses are located
B. A set of the axis where the normal stress vector is maximized
C. Where the forces are evenly dispersed
D. Where the load is applied
24: What type of stress is isotropic stress that is given by the weight of water above a certain point?
A. Gravitational Stress
B. Compressive stress
C. Shear stress
D. Hydrostatic Stress
25: What is the ability of an object to spring back into shape?
A. Elasticity
B. Spontaneity
C. Resilience
26: Resilience can be calculated by finding the area under the what curve?
A. Yield stress curve
B. Shear modulus
C. Stress-strain curve
D. Shear modulus curve
27: What is the term used to describe the ability of a material to absorb energy and plastically deform without fracturing?
A. Elasticity
B. Resiliency
C. Softness
D. Toughness
28: What is the term that is defined as the stress in which plastic deformation begins?
A. Plastic Limit
B. Yield Strength
C. Tensile Strength
D. Elongation
29: What is the maximum stress of a material in which necking begins?
A. Elongation
B. Ultimate Strength
C. Shear Strength
D. Tensile Strength
30: What is the stress in a material that experiences failure?
A. Modulus of Elasticity
B. Fracture Strength
C. Tensile Strength
D. Shear Strength
31: What is the name of the theorem that states that the moment of inertia about an axis passing through the centroid is equal to the moment of inertia about any parallel axis?
A. Piola-Kirchhoff's theorem
B. Parallel Axis Theorem
C. Centroid Theorem
D. Centroid of Mass Theorem
32: The mean position of all the points in a coordinate direction is known as what?
A. Mean
B. Voronoi diagrams
C. Centroid
D. Mode
33: What is the term for a surface with no normal or shear stress component applied?
A. Rough Surface
B. Shear free surface
C. Plastic Film Surface
D. Traction Free Surface
34: A material in which properties are not a function of where within the material, they are constant throughout is called what?
A. Isotropic
B. Homogeneous
C. Anisotropic
35: What is the ratio between the maximum stress to the applied tensile stress?
A. Stress Concentration Factor
B. Actual Stress
C. Shear Modulus
D. Modulus of Elasticity
36: What is the ratio of the ultimate load to the allowable load for a structure?
A. Safety factor of 10
B. Safety factor
C. Factor of Safety
D. Safety Load
37: What is the name of the factor used to reduce a structure's failure?
A. Factor of Safety II
B. Factor of Safety
C. Factor of Safety III
D. Factor of Proportionality
38: What type of criteria predicts the onset of plastic deformation for a multiaxial state of stress?
A. Shear criteria
B. Thermal criteria
C. Yield criteria
D. Poisson's ratio
39: What happens when a structure fails under compressive stress that is below the yield compressive stresses that the material is capable of handling?
A. Torsional failure
B. Buckling
C. Shear failure
D. Fracture
40: What term refers to the distribution of the shear stress throughout its cross-section due to the presence of traction-free surfaces?
A. Shear Strength
B. Shear Resistance
C. Shear Force
D. Shear Flow
41: What do you call an imaginary point on a section where a shear force can be applied without inducing any torsion?
A. Shear Plane
B. Center of Shear
C. Shear Center
D. Shear Edge
42: What is the term for the distance between inflection points?
A. Effective Length
B. Width
C. Height
43: What type of energy is stored in the deformation of a body?
A. Kinetic Energy
B. Potential Energy
C. Heat Energy
D. Strain Energy
44: What is a good measure of the energy stored at every point in an object?
A. Surface Energy
B. Strain Energy Density
C. Weight
D. Moment of Inertia
45: What are Principal Planes?
A. Planes that have shear and are on oblique angles
B. Planes that intersect at right angles
C. Planes that intersect at acute angles
D. Planes that have no shear and are on oblique angles
46: What term describes a load applied to a structural member at some point other than the centroid?
A. Point loading
B. Radial loading
C. Eccentric loading
D. Centrifugal loading
47: What is an engineering measure of the torque at which the entire cross section has yielded?
A. Bending torque
B. Shear Torque
C. Plastic Torque
D. None of these
48: Stress where a bending moment is applied to a beam without the simultaneous presence of axial, shear, or torsional forces is known as what?
A. Shear Bending
B. Torsion Stresses
C. Shear Stresses
D. Pure Bending
49: What property of a shape is used to predict the resistance to shear stress?
A. Perimeter
B. Static Moment of area
C. Thickness
D. Surface area
50: When we use eigenvalue to find principal stress, what did it change?
A. Area
B. Shape
C. Strength
D. Axis of symmetry
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