UNIVERSITY OF THE CORDILLERAS

College of Engineering and Architecture

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PROBLEM SET NO. 1

Simple Stress

1. A hollow steel tube with an inside diameter of 80 mm must carry an axial tensile load of 330 kN. Determine
the smallest allowable outside diameter of the tube if the working stress is 110 MN/m2.

2. Determine the largest weight W that can be supported by the two wires AB and AC: The working stresses
are 100 MPa for AB and 150 MPa for AC. The crosssectional areas of AB and AC are 400 mm2 and 200
mm2, respectively.

3. Segment AB of the bar is a tube with an outer diameter of 1.5 in. and a wall thickness of 0.125 in. Segment
BC is a solid rod of diameter 0.75 in. Determine the normal stress in each segment.

4. Axial loads are applied to the compound rod that is composed of an aluminium segment rigidly connected
between steel and bronze segments. What is the stress in each material given that P = 10 kN?

5. The homogeneous bar AB weighing 1800 lb is supported at either end by a steel cable. Calculate the smallest
safe area of each cable if the working stress is 18 000 psi for steel.
6. The 1000-kg uniform bar AB is suspended from two cables AC and BD; each with cross-sectional area 400
mm2. Find the magnitude P and location x of the largest additional vertical force that can be applied to the
bar. The stresses in AC and BD are limited to 100 MPa and 50 MPa, respectively.

7. The rectangular piece of wood, 50 mm by 100 mm, is used as a compression block. The grain of the wood
makes a 20_ angle with the horizontal, as shown in the figure. Determine the largest axial force P that can be
applied safely if the allowable stresses on the plane of the grain are 18 MPa for compression and 4 MPa for
shear.

8. The lap joint is connected by three 20-mm-diameter rivets. Assuming that the axial load P = 50 kN is
distributed equally among the three rivets, find (a) the shear stress in a rivet; (b) the bearing stress
between a plate and a rivet; and (c) the maximum average tensile stress in each plate.
9. A joint is made by gluing two plywood gussets of thickness t to wood boards. The tensile working stresses
are 1200 psi for the plywood and 700 psi for the boards. The working shear stress for the glue is 50 psi.
Determine the dimensions b and t so that the joint is as strong as the boards.

10. Find the stresses in members BC and BE for the truss shown. The cross - sectional area of each member is
4.2 in.2. Indicate whether the stresses are tensile (T) or compressive (C).