GATE CIVIL ENGINEERING - PREVIOUS YEARS QUESTIONS & SOLUTIONS - MECHANICS & STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS - FREE DOWNLOAD PDF (www.StudyCivilEngg.com)

 GATE CIVIL ENGINEERING

PREVIOUS YEARS QUESTIONS (16 YEARS)

QUESTIONS AND SOLUTIONS - FREE DOWNLOAD PDF

MECHANICS & STRUCTURAL ANALYSIS

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Download the questions and solutions of previous 16 years GATE Civil Engineering Exam - Mechanics and Structural Analysis subject in PDF Format for free of cost. Below are the questions from the PDF, download link present at the bottom of this post.

Also, a Quick Revision material is present before the 16 Years GATE Civil Engineering questions from Mechanics & Structural Analysis, which will be useful to brush up the knowledge before answering the GATE Questions.

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QUESTIONS AND SOLVED ANSWERS/SOLUTIONS

Question 20: The unit load method used in structural analysis is [2004, 1 mark]

(a) applicable only to statistically indeterminate structures
(b) another name for stiffness method
(c) an extension of Maxwell's reciprocal theorem
(d) derived from Castigliano's theorem

Question 21: For linear elastic systems, the type of displacement function for the strain energy is [2004, 1 mark]

(a) linear
(b) quadratic
(c) cubic
(d) quartic

Question 22: For a linear elastic structural system, minimization of potential energy yields [2004, 1 mark]

(a) compatibility conditions
(b) constitutive relations
(c) equilibrium equations
(d) strain-displacement relations

Question 23: The symmetry of stress tensor at a point in the body under equilibrium is obtained from [2005, 1 mark]

(a) conservation of mass
(b) force equilibrium equations
(c) moment equilibrium equations
(d) conservation of energy

Question 24: The components of strain tensor at a point in the plane strain case can be obtained by measuring longitudinal strain in following directions [2005, 1 mark]

(a) along any two arbitrary directions
(b) along any arbitrary directions
(c) along any mutually orthogonal directions
(d) along any arbitrary direction

Question 25: For a linear elastic frame, if stiffness matrix is doubled, the existing stiffness matrix, the deflection of the resulting frame will be [2005, 1 mark]

(a) twice the existing value
(b) half the existing value
(c) the same as existing value
(d) indeterminate value

Question 26: The stiffness coefficient kij indicates [2007, 1 mark]

(a) force at i due to a unit deformation at j
(b) deformation at j due to a unit force at i
(c) deformation at i due to a unit force j
(d) force at i due to a unit deformation i

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